April 17, 2019

Discovery Park, Birck Nanotechnology Center, and ECE welcoming Thirumalai Venkatesan

Thirumalai Venky Venkatesan, professor and director of the National University of Singapore’s Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Initiative, will give a presentation titled “Interface Enabled Technologies” at 11 a.m. Thursday (April 18) in the Burton D. Morgan Center, Room 121.

This lecture is presented by Discovery Park, the Birck Nanotechnology Center and the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and is open to the public. Venkatesan will present examples of how interfaces of similar and dissimilar materials provide opportunities for new science and new applications.

Venkatesan is currently the director of the Nano Institute at the National University of Singapore, where he is a professor of ECE, physics, MSE and NGS. As the inventor of the pulsed laser deposition process, he has more than 750 papers and 30 patents and is globally among the top 100 physicists (ranked at 66 in 2000) in terms of his citations (more than 43,000 with a Hirsch Index of 106-Google Scholar). He is also the founder and chairman of Neocera, a company specializing in the area of pulsed laser deposition and magnetic field imaging systems. Venkatesan holds Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees from the Indian Institute of Technology (Kharagpur and Kanpur Respy.) and a PhD from the City University of New York and Bell Laboratories (Murray Hill, New Jersey).

About Discovery Park

Discovery Park is a place where Purdue researchers move beyond traditional boundaries, collaborating across disciplines and with policymakers and business leaders to create solutions for a better world. Grand challenges of global health, global conflict and security, and those that lie at the nexus of sustainable energy, world food supply, water and the environment are the focus of researchers in Discovery Park. The translation of discovery to impact is integrated into the fabric of Discovery Park through entrepreneurship programs and partnerships.

Writer: Elizabeth Harwood, eharwood@purdue.edu


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