“Being exposed to research level mathematics, I believe mathematics is for all people. Having taught mathematics at undergraduate level and tutored one-on-one at several levels, I believe strongly that it is not a subject to pass. It is not to merely showcase your research prowess and keep people in awe, but it has beauty in it everyone must see.
My constant endeavour is to make mathematics reachable to one and all.”
Professor Krishnappa is a philosopher and the Head of the Philosophy Programme at the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences (SoLAS). He is also the Director of Mahatma Gandhi Centre for Contemporary Ethics (MGCCE) at the RV University.
Krishnappa’s teaching and research interests include Ancient Greek Philosophy, Continental Philosophy, the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tolstoy, philosophical and literary reading, philosophy and the liberal arts education, pedagogy, and critical thinking.
Prior to joining RVU Krishnappa was a Doctoral Research Fellow at O.P. Jindal Global University in the area of Philosophy and Literature (2015-21). Krishnappa holds a PGDip in Strategy and Innovation from the Saïd Business School (SBS), University of Oxford, and an MSc in Defence and Strategic Studies from the University of Madras. He also earned a certificate in Business Management from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A, 2013-14) and a Certificate in Peace Research from the University of Oslo, Norway (2008). He is also a graduate of Defence Services Staff College (Wellington,2001-02) the SEAS programme (USIEF, Hawai, 2008), College of Air Warfare (Secunderabad, 1995), and the Air Force Administrative College (Coimbatore, 1994), Pre Flying Training College (1988), Basic Flying Training School (1989), Air Force Academy (1990). “
Krishnappa has over 30 years of experience with 18 years in teaching and research. Krishnappa was a Research Fellow at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA) between 2004 and 2013. He has a number of publications to his credit in peer reviewed journals, book chapters and five edited volumes in the fields of national strategy, international relations and security studies. During his Fellowship at IDSA, Krishnappa led many large international and interdisciplinary projects including the IDSA- DRDO Strategic Futures 2050 project commissioned by the Government of India, and a project with the Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies (IFS) on India’s Grand Strategy: History, Theory, Cases. Previously, he served in the Indian Air Force (IAF) on active duty between 1986 and 2004 holding various operational and management positions retiring after attaining the rank of Group Captain (Select Grade).
Dr. Soundarya Iyer is an Assistant Professor at RV University, Bangalore and Associated Researcher at the French Institute of Pondicherry, India. She is interested in interdisciplinary approaches to the study of agrarian change, climate change, gender, and livelihoods in India. She was the Sir Ratan Tata Post-Doctoral Fellow 2018-19 at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. She was a post-doctoral fellow at the Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore in the IDRC funded climate change project on Adaptation at Scale in Semi-arid Regions (ASSAR). She is currently Principal Investigator on a collaborative project with Prof. Nitya Rao funded by the Azim Premji University Research Funding Programme – 2019 which aims to understand the sociology of the decline in female labour force participation in rural Karnataka and Tamil Nadu.
Dr. Iyer defended her doctoral dissertation in 2017 from Manipal University, for which she worked at the National Institute of Advanced Studies in Bangalore. Her doctoral dissertation traced the processes of rural transformation in three villages of Karnataka using mixed methods such as household surveys and semi-structured interviews.
