IIT Kharagpur Alumnus Prof. Thirumalai Venkatesan has become FRS

“On behalf of the entire institute, I heartily congratulate to our distinguished alumnus, Prof Thirumalai Venkatesan (1969/B.Sc/PH) on his well-deserved success. It has been a great honor for getting elected as the Fellow of The Royal Society. His outstanding work as a physicist and an educator, for long years has finally paid up.We are so pleased to see him accomplishing great things. Best wishes to bring more and more laurels for him and his profession. In the year 2017, he visited IIT Kharagpur his Alma mater to receive the prestigious Distinguished Alumnus Award”, said Prof Virendra Kumar Tewari, the Director of Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur.

Recently, Prof Venkatesan catalyzed the development of nanoscience in Signapore, where he served as the Director of the NUS Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Institute (NUSNNI) as well as the Provost Chair Professor of ECE, Physics, MSE and NGS. He was also the founding director of the surface modification lab at Rutgers University. Currently, he is the Director of the Center for Quantum Research and Technology at University of Oklahoma.

Prof Venkatesan pioneered the pulsed laser deposition (PLD) process in its application to thin films of complex oxides and related multi component materials, which has transformed research on films/ hetero structures globally. As the inventor of the PLD process, he has published more than 800 papers, holds 35 patents and was ranked 66 in term of his citations among the top 100 physicists globally.

For about 17 years, he spent at Bell Labs and Bell core as a scientist and research manager, before becoming the Professor at University of Maryland for another 17 years. Prof Venkatesan is the winner of the George Pake Prize of the American Physical Society, IPS President’s gold medal, Bellcore Award of Excellence, University of Maryland Graduate Board award. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society, World Innovation Forum, an honorary guest professor at Tsinghua University (Beijing) and academician of Asia-Pacific academy of materials.

Prof Venkatesan had graduated from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur as B. Sc (Physics). Prof. Thirumalai Venkatesan obtained his M.Sc. degree in Physics at Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. He then received a Ph.D. from the University of New York. He is also responsible for several startup companies, Neocera, Neocera Magma, Blue Wave Semiconductors, Breathonix, Cellivate and Azometrix.

The Royal Society is a Fellowship of many of the world’s most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence. Over sixty outstanding scientists from all over the globe have joined the Royal Society as Fellows and Foreign Members in the year 2021.

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Dr. Sudipta Seal, an alumnus of IIT Kharagpur has been recently elected as the Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry for his contributions in the field of Chemical Sciences.

Dr. Seal specializes in the areas of Nanomaterials processing and characterization, Nanobiotechnology, Materials for optics, sensors, coatings, fuel cells, Oxidation/Corrosion, Surface Science and Engineering and Chemical Mechanical Planarization. He is at present Department Chair of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Central Florida.

Dr. Seal graduated from IIT Kharagpur in 1990 with B.Tech. in Metallurgy and Materials Engineering. He did MS in Metallurgy from the University of Sheffield and PhD from University of Wisconsin in Materials Engineering and Biochemistry. He has been associated with UCF for close to 22 years.

“As a materials engineer I’m always involved in new material formulation and development for a variety of applications in biomedical, space and the environment. Getting recognized by the Royal Society of Chemistry is not only a humbling experience but will also create a lot of future research opportunities,” Dr. Seal said in an interview to UCF Today. (Read Full Interview Here)

The Royal Society of Chemistry is one of the oldest and most reputed professional body headquartered in the United Kingdom with the goal of advancing in chemistry, developing its applications, and disseminating chemical knowledge.