GIRIDHAR MADRAS

 

SENIOR PROFESSOR

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING

INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

HYDERABAD

 

Giridhar at che.iith.ac.in

Giridhar.madras at gmail.com

 

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BRIEF SYNOPSIS OF MY WORK

 

EDUCATION: 

 

1988 B.E. in Chemical Engineering Annamalai University

1990   M.Tech in Chemical Engineering IIT, Madras (9.43/10)

1994 Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering Texas A&M University, (4.0/4.0)

 

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

 

1998 –2020 Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

1994 - 1998 Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of California, Davis, USA

 

FELLOWSHIPS:

 

· Fellow, Indian National Science Academy (INSA), Delhi, 2014

· Fellow, Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE), Delhi, 2014

· Fellow, Indian Academy of Sciences (IASc), Bangalore, 2014

· Fellow, National Academy of Science of India (NASI), Allahabad, 2014

 

MAJOR AWARDS:

 

q Santappa Memorial award for excellence in polymer research, 2017

q IISc excellence award in teaching and research, 2015

q J.C. Bose National Fellow, 2015-2020

q Top 100 scientists in chemical engineering by Shanghai rankings, 2015-2019

q S.S. Bhatnagar Prize awarded by CSIR, 2009

q Swarnajayanthi Fellowship awarded by DST, 2006

q Top 1% of scientists by ISI Web of Knowledge

q Top 3 scientists in chemical engineering in India in Stanford list.

 


EDITORIAL DUTIES:

· Editor, Advanced Powder Technology, 2013-2023

· Editor, Journal of Supercritical Fluids, 2019-2023

· Associate Editor, RSC advances, 2015-2017

· Associate Editor, Current Science, 2012-2019

· Associate Editor, Bulletin of Material Science, 2012-2016

· Associate Editor, International J of Polymer Science, 2011-2014

 

PUBLICATION AND CITATION PROFILE

 

Number of papers published

580

Number of citations

25555

h-index

80

Number of papers published with more than 100 citations

50

Number of papers published with more than 80 citations

80

Number of papers published with more than 50 citations

160

Number of papers published with more than 10 citations

470

Number of papers published with more than 5 citations

520

 

Google Scholar link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=PUZ8qcgAAAAJ&hl=en

Scopus ID: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=7005905149

572 Publications, 20802 citations, h-index: 67

 

STUDENTS GRADUATED

 

Degree

TOTAL

Ph.D.

53

M.Sc.(Engg.)

11

M.E

32

Many have won the best thesis award from the department/Institute. 18 of the graduated students are now faculty in IITs/IISERs/NITs/BITS.

 

The list of students is here.

 

PROJECTS:

 

38 sponsored projects totaling 22 crores.

 

The list of projects is here.

 

 

TEACHING DUTIES

 

Course

 

Taught from

CH 202

Numerical Methods

1998-2009;2012-2018

CH 207

Applied Statistics

2012-2018

CH 236

Separation Processes

1999-2004

CH 237

Polymer Science and Engineering

1999-2018

The courses CH 202 and CH 237 are taken by around 50 graduate students every year. I taught CH 201 for two years (2010 and 2011).


ADMINISTRATIVE WORK

The brief description of my administrative work is given here.