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Rensselaer Nanomaterials Expert Ganpati Ramanath To Receive Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Professor
Honored with Prestigious Distinction, Will Meet President of
Germany
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Professor Ganpati Ramanath
has been named a winner of the prestigious Friedrich Wilhelm
Bessel Research Award by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
in Germany.
Given in recognition of Ramanath’s research record and
accomplishments in the fields of nanomaterials and interfaces,
the award includes an invitation to meet the president of
Germany, and to spend up to one year in the country as a
visiting scholar at research institutions to collaborate on
long-term research projects.
The award citation reads: “Prof. Dr. Ganpati Ramanath is an
international leader renowned for his outstanding research in
the fields of science and engineering of nanomaterials and
interfaces. His seminal contributions include the discovery of
new molecularly directed approaches to synthesize inorganic
nanomaterials and tailor their interfaces, and the unearthing
of atomistic structure-chemistry-processing-property
relationships, to realize novel materials and properties for
energy and electronics.”
The Humboldt Foundation grants only up to 25 Friedrich
Wilhelm Bessel Research Awards annually. The honor is reserved
for scientists and scholars who are internationally renowned in
their fields, who completed their doctorates less than 18 years
ago, and who are expected to continue producing leading-edge
achievements that will have a seminal influence on their
discipline beyond their immediate field of work, according to
the foundation.
Ramanath is a professor in the Department of Materials Science
and Engineering at Rensselaer.
“We congratulate Dr. Ramanath for being selected to receive
the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award. This is an
impressive and important recognition of his research
accomplishments and the international stature he has attained
in his field. Professor Ramanath’s career is one of outstanding
scholarship and high-impact research discoveries, and we are
thrilled the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation has chosen to
recognize him with this prestigious award,” said David Rosowsky, dean
of the School of Engineering at
Rensselaer. “We are honored to have researchers of Dr.
Ramanath’s stature among our faculty in the School of
Engineering”
Known throughout the global materials science and
engineering community as a leader and innovator, Ramanath’s
research focuses on nanostructured materials and interfaces for
applications in electronics and energy. His investigations
include the development of new types of materials and thin
films through directed synthesis and assembly, as well as the
creation of molecularly tailored interfaces with novel or
unique properties. Ramanath’s recent discoveries include a new
class of thermoelectric nanomaterials built from assemblies of
sculpted nanostructures for high-efficiency solid-state
refrigeration and electricity harvesting from waste heat, along
with nanomolecular layers of “nanoglue” that can join
non-sticking materials, inhibit chemical intermixing, and boost
thermal transport. His work has been featured internationally
by many news organizations, including Thompson Reuters,
Scientific American, MSNBC, Discovery Channel, PC
World, EETimes, MIT Technology Review,
CNET, Science Daily, and others.
A prolific researcher, Ramanath has published 145 referred
articles in journals, including Nature,
Science, Nature Materials, Advanced
Materials, and many others. His work has been cited more
than 3,500 times and yielded seven patents. Over the past 10
years, he has secured more than $9 million in funding from
agencies including the National Science Foundation (NSF), U.S.
Department of Energy, U.S. Department of Defense, New York
state, Semiconductor Research Corporation, the Office of Naval
Research, as well as many companies including IBM, Intel,
Novellus, and Honda.
Ramanath is the recipient of an NSF Faculty Early Career
Development (CAREER) Award, the Brahm Prakash Visiting
Professorship at the Indian Institute of Science, the Bergmann
Memorial Young Scientist Award from the United States-Israel
Binational Science Foundation, a co-recipient of an IBM
Research Partnership Award, and several other honors. He served
as the Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Nanoscale Science
Department of the Max Planck Institute für Festkörperforschung
in Germany, and has been a visiting professor at the
International Center for Young Scientists, the National
Institute of Materials Science in Japan, the Indian Institute
of Science, and the Institute for Superconducting and
Electronic Materials at University of Wollogong, Australia.
Ramanath is an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on
Nanotechnology, and is on the editorial advisory board of
the Journal of Experimental Nanoscience and the
Open Materials Science Journal.
Ramanath received his doctoral degree in materials science
and engineering in 1997 from the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, his master’s degree in materials science and
engineering from the University of Cincinnati, and his
bachelor’s degree in metallurgical engineering from the Indian
Institute of Technology Madras. Prior to joining the Rensselaer
faculty as an assistant professor in 1998, Ramanath served as a
staff member at Novellus Systems in California and a visiting
scientist in the Department of Physics at Linköping University,
Sweden. He was promoted to a tenured associate professor in
2003, and full professor in 2006. He served as the director of
the Rensselaer Center for Future Energy Systems, a New York
State Center for Advanced Technology, from 2008 to 2010.
For more information on Ramanath and his nanomaterials
research at Rensselaer, visit:
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Published
February 11,
2013 |
Contact: Michael Mullaney
Phone: (518) 276-6161
E-mail: mullam@rpi.edu |
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