Venkata Krishnan
School of Chemical Sciences
Biography
Venkata Krishnan earned his Ph.D. in Chemistry in 2006 from University of Stuttgart, Germany after completing his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India.
Subsequently, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Pennsylvania, U.S.A. from 2006 to 2010 and then as a research associate at the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Tsukuba, Japan from 2010 to 2012. Later, he joined as a faculty member at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Mandi in April 2012 to start his independent academic career and is currently a full professor in its School of Chemical Sciences.
Venkata's research group is mainly working in the field of Green Chemistry and Heterogeneous Catalysis for Energy and Environment Applications. He has published more than 170 articles in well-reputed scientific journals and is also a reviewer for various international journals. He has been bestowed with several awards, including DST INSPIRE faculty award, the IIT Mandi Foundation Day award for excellence in teaching, MANA research fellowship, DoE postdoctoral fellowship, the DFG doctoral fellowship, DAAD visiting scholar fellowship, etc. Apart from academics, he likes reading books and is interested in linguistics.
RSC affiliations
Editorial board, NJC (New Journal of Chemistry)