Surendra B. Anantharaman

Assistant Professor,

Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering,

Indian Institute of Technology Madras,

Chennai 600036, Tamil Nadu, India

Email address: sba[at]iitm.ac.in

Phone: +44-2257-4794

Education

2019 Ph.D, Materials Science and Engineering, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland

2012 M.S (by Research), Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras

2023-Present: Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Madras

2022 - 2023: Group Leader, Perovskite Optoelectronics, AMO/RWTH Aachen, Germany

2019 - 2022: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA

2015 - 2019: Research Assistant, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Duebendorf, Switzerland

2015 : Japan Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS) fellow, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (TUAT), Japan

2012 - 2013: Engineer, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), Hsinchu, Taiwan

2019-2021: Principal Investigator for Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) Early Postdoc Mobility Fellowship (Grant:106,650 Swiss Franc)

2021: SNSF Open Access Publication Funding (Grant: 4,494 Swiss Franc)

2020, 2019: Best Presentation Prize in Nanoge Conference (two times consecutively)

2019: Ph.D. Thesis nominated for the “Best Ph.D. Thesis Award” (top 8% at EPFL)

2017: Conceived the proposal for SNSF R’EQUIP grant to purchase IR-AFM at Empa, Switzerland

2016: Japan Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS) fellow (3 months) (Grant: 660,000 Japanese Yen)

2015-2019: SNSF Fellowship, Ph.D. research (Grant: 220,000 Swiss Franc)

2013: Best Idea Award at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), Taiwan

2009-2012: Research Assistantship, Government of India for M.S (by Research) at IIT Madras