Srinivasa R Raghavan
University of Maryland, USA
Biography
Srinivasa R Raghavan is the Patrick and Marguerite Sung Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD). He received his B Tech and PhD in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and North Carolina State University, respectively. His research on self-assembly, nanostructured fluids and soft materials has resulted in more than 150 publications and 20 US patents. He has received several national and University-wide awards for his teaching and his research (including the CAREER award from the National Science Foundation in 2004 and UMD Invention of the Year in 2009). He is also the scientific co-founder of three startup companies based on technologies invented in his laboratory.