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KAUST Research Conference 2023

November 4-8, 2023
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Swaminathan Sivaram

Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Pune, India

Biography

Dr. Sivaram is a Professor Emeritus at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Pune. Dr. Sivaram is a polymer chemist by profession and a former Director of the CSIR – National Chemical Laboratory, Pune (2002-10), Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Fellow of CSIR (2010-2015) and J. C. Bose Fellow of the Department of Science and Technology (2006-2014). From 1973 to 1988, Dr. Sivaram was associated with the Indian Petrochemicals Corporation Limited and helped build the first petrochemicals and polymer industrial R&D Centre at Vadodara, India.

Dr. Sivaram was conferred the coveted civilian honour, Padma Shri by the President of India in 2006. He is a recipient of the Gold Medal of the Chemical Research Society of India for his life-time achievements in chemistry (2019) and the International Award for distinguished contributions to polymer science, awarded by the Society of Polymer Science, Japan (2017).  The Institute of Polymer Science, University of Akron honored him with the H.A. Morton Distinguished Professorship in 2006. Purdue University conferred on him a degree of Doctor of Science (h. C) in 2010 in recognition of his exceptional merit and attainment. IIT-Kanpur bestowed on him the distinguished alumnus award in 1998.    He is an elected Fellow of all the learned academies of science and engineering in India as well as The World Academy of Sciences, Trieste, Italy. 

Dr. Sivaram earned his B. Sc. degree in Chemistry from Madras Christian College (1965) and M.Sc. From the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (1967). He earned a Ph.D. in Chemistry (mentored by Nobel Laureate Professor H. C. Brown) from Purdue University, W. Lafayette, Indiana, USA. He was a Research Associate at the Institute of Polymer Science, The University of Akron, Ohio, USA (Professor J.P. Kennedy).

He was a founder Chairman and director of Venture Centre, A Section 8 not-for-profit company, Pune one of the first science driven technology business incubators established in India in 2004. He is also a founder Director of AIC-Society for Entrepreneurial Education and Development and I-HUB Quantum Technology Foundation, both located within IISER, Pune. He is a technical consultant and scientific advisor to several Indian companies and serves or has served on the Board of Directors of many leading Indian companies dealing with chemicals and materials

Dr. Sivaram ‘s research interest concerns polymer synthesis, surface chemistry of polymers, porous polymers, biodegradable polymers, organic-inorganic hybrids, and structure-property relationship in polymers. This apart, he is deeply interested in subjects such as sustainability issues, sustainable energy technology and policies, history of science as well as understanding the inter-play of science, technology, society, and public policies. 

He has authored close to two hundred and fifty papers in peer-reviewed journals, edited two books and authored one book. He is cited as an inventor in fifty-one issued US and European patents as well as fifty-two Indian patents. He has supervised the doctoral thesis of about forty students and mentored over fifteen post-doctoral fellows in a research career spanning fifty years.

All sessions by Swaminathan Sivaram

  • Monday

    November 06
Porous Functional Polymers as Separators for Lithium Ion Batteries(Parallel Session II)
08:30 AM
Swaminathan Sivaram

Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Pune, India

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