Anandhan Srinivasan

Biography

Prof. Anandhan Srinivasan holds BSc in Chemistry (Madura College, Madurai Kamaraj University, India, 1995), MSc in Applied Chemistry (Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai Kamaraj University, India, 1997), MTech in Polymer Technology (Cochin University of Science and Technology, India, 1999) and PhD in Polymer Science and Technology (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, 2004). He was a gold medalist in both BSc (first rank among 240 students) and MSc.

He was invited as a Visiting Research Associate by the School of Materials Science and Engineering, the University of New South Wales, Australia in 2002. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer in Inha University, Korea (2004-2005) in the erstwhile Textile Engineering Department (currently Chemical Engineering). Subsequently, he served as an Assistant Professor in the department of Materials Science at AIMST University, Malaysia during 2005-2008. He joined his present organization (NITK-Surathkal) in 2009 as an Assistant Professor and rose in ranks as Associate Professor and Professor in 2012 and 2018, respectively. He has been teaching courses in the areas of polymers, nanomaterials, materials characterization, and nanocomposites.

He has supervised 8 doctoral students to completion and 4 more students have been working for their PhD. He has also guided 41 master's research projects in various areas related to polymers and nanotechnology. He has published 85 articles in peer reviewed international journals and his publications have so far received about 1650 citations. He has also published a patent; 3 books and 14 book chapters. Earlier, his edited book titled ‘Advances in Polymer Materials and Technology’ was published in 2016 by Taylor and Francis, CRC press. He is a guest editor for the special issue to be published in 2022 on 'Catalysis for sustainable energy and fuel production' of the Elsevier journal Results in Engineering. He was the principal investigator of 2 sponsored research projects. He was also a co-principal investigator of a project titled 'Mitigating Dendrite Growth Using Engineered Electrolyte Layers for the Development of High Energy Density, Long Cycle Life Lithium Batteries’, funded by the Department of Science & Technology (DST), India and is currently a member of the team that has secured a highly competitive research grant from the National Science Foundation, USA. He has been a referee for more than 50 international journals of repute. He has refereed about 30 doctoral dissertations from India and abroad.

Anandhan has been admitted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), UK in September 2021 for his outstanding contribution to the advancement of the chemical sciences through his research on Advanced Functional Nanofibers, Energy Materials, and Polymer Nanocomposites. He has won a number of awards and honors among which Doctoral Research Fellowship from DST-India, Australia-India Council Fellowship, Postdoctoral Fellowship from Inha University-Korea, ARCNN-ARNAM Fellowship from UNSW-Australia, Fast Track Award for young scientists from DST-India are some of the noteworthy ones. Earlier, he was Elected Fellow of the Institution of Engineers (India) and Indian Chemical Society in 2017 and 2019, respectively.

Education

PhD, IIT Kharagpur, India, 2004
MTech, CUSAT, India, 1999
MSc, Madurai Kamaraj University, India, 1997
BSc, Madurai Kamaraj University, India, 1995

Areas of Research / Professional Expertise

Advanced Functional Nanofibers; Energy Materials; Flexible Electronics; Polymer Nanocomposites;
Polymer Blends; Waste Management

Websites

• Group webpage

Books