ChE Panel & Research Talks
11:00am - 12:00pm Panel: Opportunities in Indian Academia: IISc Bangalore and IIT Bombay
1:30pm - 3:00pm Research Talks: Integrated Experimental and Theoretical Approaches to Energy Storage and Catalytic Materials
Speakers:
Prof. Naga Phani Aetukuri
Associate Professor, Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit (SSCU), Indian Institute of Science — Bengaluru
Works on novel materials and devices for energy-efficient electronics and high–energy density batteries. Uses thin-film synthesis and heterostructure design of transition metal compounds for applications in energy storage, electrocatalysis, and low-power electronics.
PhD (Stanford, Prof. James Harris); Postdoc (IBM Almaden Research Center, Prof. Alan C. Luntz).
https://sscu.iisc.ac.in/aetukuri/
Prof. Sai Gautam Gopalakrishnan
Associate Professor, Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Science — Bengaluru
Applies first-principles modeling and data-driven methods to predict material behavior for batteries, photovoltaics, and water splitting.
PhD (MIT, Prof. Gerbrand Ceder); Postdoc (Princeton, Prof. Emily Carter).
https://sai-mat-group.github.io/
Prof. Srinivasan Ramakrishnan
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology — Bombay
Studies interfacial charge-transfer phenomena in advanced batteries, electrocatalysts, and neural probes.
PhD (Stanford, Profs. Christopher Chidsey and Robert Waymouth); Postdoc (Berkeley, Prof. Bryan McCloskey).
https://sites.google.com/iitb.ac.in/srinivasan-lab