• Physics pedagogy
• Music pedagogy
• Music theory
• School physics content development
• YouTube content development
• Mathematics pedagogy

Anand was a schoolteacher for over a decade before joining the University in 2022. He started his work as a Physics & Music Educator at Good Earth School, Chennai, where, apart from teaching, he contributed actively to the school’s overall physical, cultural, and academic development with several non-academic responsibilities. Besides this, what he owes most to Good Earth is the space and time it gave him to discover and develop his love for teaching music. In his work with children aged 4 to 14, he developed a system of teaching music that catered to their specific pedagogic requirements. Over time, he was able to bring about a vibrant culture that helped children become more musically inclined. Children, in turn, guided by teachers, came up with several musical theatre productions, concerts, sing-alongs, and musical presentations.

At the University, Anand has continued his work in music education through the Creative Expressions (CRX) programme, where he has designed and taught a course on singing together across four semesters, with each course culminating in a short chamber-choir performance. He also teaches music at the Azim Premji School on campus. In 2024, he worked with a pan-university choir of 75 students, which presented ​‘The Sound of Music’ in 2025 to mark the 60^th anniversary of the musical, followed by a short presentation of Disney music later that year with 90 students. In 2026, he worked with a choir of 100 students, faculty, and other University members to present ​‘An Evening of Evergreen Melodies’, featuring Hindi film songs from the 1950s to 1980s. These musical ventures are based on the idea that singing is something everyone can participate in, regardless of prior musical experience, and that singing together can bring people together. All these performances are available in this playlist: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5‑fMkm0NTec&list=PLFlEf2Jldsqvzo-ZGJIU76Xm15uSDpzh3

In 2018, along with friends and mentors, Anand initiated the School Physics Educators Forum (SPEF) with support from NPS International, Chennai (where he worked for a year). This forum was founded on the understanding that school education will improve only if teachers are empowered. This forum, since its inception, has evolved from being a small group of physics teachers in Chennai conducting workshops in problem-solving and concept building into a larger group of educators from all over the country, from various disciplines, discussing subject content, sharing teaching-learning experiences, and learning from each other. He continues to organise this forum and make videos to reach out to schoolteachers and students alike. His latest ventures in physics content development can be found on his channel, Seriously Simple: https://​www​.youtube​.com/​@​s​e​r​i​o​u​s​l​y​_​s​imple

Anand holds a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in physics from Madras Christian College, Chennai, and later completed an MPhil in Physics and a B.Ed.

Anand’s greatest passions continue to be conveying physics, mathematics and music to an uninitiated audience, especially school children, and making video content for online platforms. He is a trained Western classical music theorist, an avid fan of technology, mathematics, architecture and astronomy, and he is fascinated by history and aviation.