| SRM Institute of Science and Technology Ramapuram | |
| Title of the Event | “International Seminar on Advanced Materials for Sustainable Development and Energy applications” |
| Date | 9th Nov 2024 |
| Time | 10:00 AM – 01:00 PM |
| Venue/ Event Mode | Online (zoom platform) |
| Total Attendees | 359 |
Resource Person details
Professor Sivakumar Manickam is a Chemical Engineer with a specialization in the process engineering of nanomaterials, especially nanopharmaceuticals, and has over 25 years of experience in this field. He is currently working with the University of Technology Brunei (UTB), Brunei; before that, he worked at the University of Nottingham, International Campus in Malaysia. A major focus of his research is the development of cavitation- based reactors for the production of nanomaterials of technological importance, greener extraction of natural products, water treatment, development of pharmaceutical nanoemulsions, and use of novel carbon nanomaterials to develop biosensors for earlier diagnosis of cancer and diabetes. While at the University of Nottingham, he served in a variety of leadership roles, including Director of Research, Founding Director for the Centre for Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials, Head – Manufacturing and Industrial Research Division and Associate Dean for Research and Knowledge Exchange. He served as Deputy Dean (Research) of the Faculty of Engineering at UTB and currently he is the Director of Centre for Green Technology and Sustainability Research (GreenTEXS).
Over the course of his career, he has completed more than 20 industrial and government-funded projects and supervised more than 50 students in research projects. Throughout his career, he has published more than 250 peer- reviewed papers in journals of repute. According to Scholar Google, he has a h-index of 68 (Citations more than 14000). In addition, he is also the Executive Editor of the Ultrasonics Sonochemistry Journal (Elsevier Q1 Journal of IF 8.4). He received many teaching and research awards and the recent ones is the Teaching Excellence Award as well as Research Excellence Award from UTB and IAAM Scientist Award by the International Association of Advanced Materials during European Assembly of Advanced Materials Congress, Stockholm, Sweden, Aug 2022. Also, from 2020 onwards he is in the Top 2% most cited scientist by the Stanford List. His affiliations include service on the board of the Asia Oceania Sonochemical Society as Vice-President, as well as the Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (UK) and the Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC).
Dr. Kathiresan Murugavel Senior Scientist, ElectroOrganic & Materials Electrochemistry Division, CSIR-Central ElectroChemical Research Institute, Karaikkudi, 630 003, TamilNadu, INDIA, Current Position Senior Scientist, Electro Organic & Materials Electrochemistry Division, CSIR-Central ElectroChemical Research Institute (CSIR-CECRI), since Apr 2021. Scientist, Electro Organic & Materials Electrochemistry Division, CSIR- Central ElectroChemical Research Institute (CSIR-CECRI), Apr 2017 – Apr 2021. DST-INSPIRE Faculty, ElectroOrganic Division, CSIR-Central Electro Chemical Research Institute (CSIR-CECRI), Mar 2014 – Apr 2017.
Teaching Experience: Handling Engineering Chem I & II Theory (Photochemistry, Spectroscopy, Polymer Chemistry, Phase Rule & Alloys, Energy Sources, Fuels and Combustion, Water Treatment) & practicals since July 2014. Teaching Advanced Materials Characterization course to AcSIR Ph.D scholars since Jan 2017. Educational
Qualification Post-Doctoral Researcher, Apr 2011- Mar 2013, Organic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
Awards and Credits Ø Appeared in Stanford University, USA list of top 2% best researchers in the world under single year category (2024). Ø INSPIRE FACULTY Award 2013 (session –II) by DST (Department of Science & Technology), Govt. of India. Ø Qualified GATE-2006, 91.9 percentile. Overall ranking 367 out of 4542 candidates appeared. Ø Qualified CSIR-NET Jun 2006 and got UGC-JRF (Junior Research Fellowship) conducted by University Grants Commission, India. Ø Ph.D studies was supported by DFG (German Research Foundation) funding through GK-612 and my Post Doctoral work was funded by SNF (Swiss National Fellowship).
Dr. Anil Kumar Pal grew up in Cuttack, Odisha. He completed B.Sc. in Physics from Utkal University, Odisha in 2010 and M.Sc. in Physics from Pondicherry University in 2012. He completed PhD in Physics from Pondicherry University, was supervised by Prof. D. Bharathi Mohan. His PhD research work was focused on nanoplasmonics and surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) for biomolecule detection such as hemoglobin and DNA. He went to National Taiwan University, Taiwan as intern and worked on phosphors LED applications. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Birmingham, UK for 3 years, where he worked on diffraction grating and leaky wave guide biosensors for protein detection.
He worked as Humboldt Fellow at LMU Munich, Germany in the group of Prof. Stefan Maier, where he worked on the development of plasmonic cavity based SERS Biosensor. Currently, Dr. Pal is a Senior Scientist at BioMed X Institute, Germany. His work is focused on Plasmonic fiber-optic sensor for in-vivo sensing of drug molecules in the brain. Dr. Pal has authored 15 publications, 6 conference proceedings and has given presentations at 17 international conferences. He is a reviewer of 8 international journals and co-editor of one international journal.
The Department of Physics, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Ramapuram Campus, Chennai has organized “International Seminar on Advanced Materials for Sustainable Development and Energy applications” on 9th Nov 2024. The event was conducted online through Zoom Platform
Dr.N. BalaMurugan, Associate Professor and Head of the department of Physics started with the welcome address of the gathering and given an overview about International Seminar
Professor Sivakumar Manickam is a Chemical Engineer, University of Technology Brunei (UTB), Brunei, gave an amazing lecture on “Greener Cavitation Technologies for the Intensification of Nanomaterial
Processes in Energy and Environmental Systems”. He gave an insight on greener materials used for Energy and Environmental systems.
Dr. M. KATHIRESAN, Senior Scientist, CSIR-CECRI, Karaikudi, Tamil Nadu gave a scintillating talk on “Porous Organic Polymers as Electrocatalysts for Electrochemical CO2 Reduction and Water Splitting Reactions.” He introduced the basics of Porous organic Polymers, their synthesis techniques and applications in various areas of water splitting
Dr Anil Kumar Pal, Senior Scientist, BioMed X GmbH, Heidelberg, Germany explained about “Advances in Optical Biosensing: Raman, Waveguide, and Diffractive Optics for Biomolecule Detection. He has explained about the latest techniques involved in optical biosensing.
We have received around 359 participants in Zoom Platform. The participants for the above three sessions include Faculty members, Research Scholars and PG students from various universities and institutions. The participants raised questions to the speakers and discussed about the topics. Good feedback was received from the participants on the talk by the resource persons.The session ended with vote of Thanks by Dr. T.Beena, AP(SG)/Physics, one of convener of the International Seminar. The successful event was coordinated by Dr. A. Nataraj AP(SG)/Physics and Dr. A. Senthil, Asso. Prof/Physics.
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