School of Engineering

G. Ramanath
Professor
Director of the Center for Future Energy Systems http://www.rpi.edu/cfes/Ramanath

Department Affiliation:

Department of Materials Science & Engineering

Education:

Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Materials Science and Engineering

M.S., University of Cincinnati
Materials Science and Engineering

B.S., Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (now Chennai)
Metallurgical Engineering

Background:

Professor Ramanath received his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Illinois-Urbana in 1997. His doctoral work won him a Materials Research Society Graduate Student Award (now known as the Gold Award). He obtained his B.Tech. in Metallurgical Engineering from the IIT, Madras, India, and his M.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Cincinnati. He was a staff member at Novellus Systems, CA, and a Visiting Scientist at the Physics Department of Linköping University, Sweden, before he joined the Rensselaer faculty in Fall 1998 as an Assistant Professor. He became a tenured Associate Professor in 2003, and was promoted to full Professor in 2006. Since May 2008, he is the Director of the Center for Future Energy Systems (CFES), a New York State Center for Advanced Technology (CAT).

He is a recipient of a Early CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation (2000), Prof. Bergmann Memorial Young Scientist Award from the US-Israel Binational Science Foundation (2003), and is a co-recipient of IBM Research Partnership Award (1999-2006), Best paper award IEEE Nano (Hong Kong, 2007). He has been a Visiting Professor at the International Center for Young Scientists, Tsukuba, Japan (summer 2004), the Nanoscale Science Department at the Max Planck Institute für Festkörperforschung, Stuttgart, Germany as an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow (2004-2005), the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India (summer 2006), and the Institute for Superconducting and Electronic Materials, University of Wollogong, Australia. He is an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology since October 2003, and serves on the editorial advisory board of the Journal of Experimental Nanoscience and the The Open Materials Science Journal.

Research Interests:

Directed synthesis, assembly and modification of nanostructures and mesoarchitectures, and molecular nanolayer-tailored surfaces and interfaces, for nanodevice and energy applications, wtih emphasis is on creating new materials, understanding atomic-/molecular-level relationships between structure, chemistry and properties using multiple microscopy and spectroscopy techniques.