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
Experience
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
Awards and Honors
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