Site for an IISc research group.
A comprehensive research website for the Atomic-Scale Engineering of Structural Materials (ASESM) group at the Indian Institute of Science, led by Dr. Surendra Kumar Makineni. Built to support publications, people, collaborators, and open-research dissemination.
Research-grade site for IISc materials group.
- Client
- ASESM Research (IISc)
- Industry
- Research
- Role
- Design, Development, CMS
- Timeline
- 6 weeks
- Year
- 2025
Serious science, serious site.
Academic research sites tend to fall into two camps: minimal university-default pages, or overbuilt one-off sites that rot within a year of the last PhD cohort. ASESM wanted neither.
The group needed a site that communicates the seriousness of their superalloys and atomic-scale engineering work, serves as a recruiting tool for incoming PhDs and postdocs, and can be maintained by the group itself — updating publications, adding team members, and announcing collaborations without re-hiring an agency.
Publications Archive
Papers, preprints, and citations structured for easy updates, with DOI and arXiv linking built in.
Team & People Pages
Bios for 20+ group members: faculty, postdocs, PhDs, and alumni. Clean, academic, easy to update.
Research Projects
Ongoing and completed project pages with collaborators, funding, publications, and visual media.
Content Authoring UX
Configured CMS that the group maintains themselves, no engineering involvement for new papers or team changes.
Academic Visual Language
Restrained typography, microscopy-inspired palette, respectful whitespace. Designed to age gracefully.
Accessibility + Performance
WCAG-tested, fast on every device, works on institutional networks. A conference-room-projector grade site.
CMS-driven, research-native design.
We designed ASESM's site around the real flow of an active research group: papers, people, projects, collaborators, teaching. The visual system is restrained and academic — clean typography, microscopy-informed color palette, respectful whitespace.
The CMS is configured so any group member can publish a new paper, add a new team bio, or announce a funded project from a browser with zero engineering support. Publications list pulls from Google Scholar format so the team doesn't re-enter metadata.
Every page is fully responsive, accessibility-tested, and performance-tuned — the site works as well on a conference-room projector as it does on a prospective student's phone.
A research group's digital home.
ASESM's site is now live and actively maintained by the research group itself. New papers, new team members, and new collaborations all get published directly by group members.
The site has become a recruiting channel for incoming PhDs and postdocs and a reference point for collaborators citing the group's work. Most importantly, it still looks and feels current a year in, not like a one-off project the agency delivered and disappeared.