Nanotechnology Centre advisory panel members
Professor C.N.R. Rao is a world-renowned chemist. He obtained his PhD in 1958 from Purdue University. Professor Rao is the Chair of the Scientific Advisory Council to the Indian Prime Minister since January 2005, a position which he had occupied earlier during 1985-89. He was the director of many national and international institutions, and a visiting professor at many prestigious universities. Professor Rao has some 41 books and 1400 research papers to his credit and has been awarded with many prizes and honors including Padma Shri and Padma Vibhushan by the Indian Government. He has received honorary doctorate degrees from 46 universities from all over from all over the world.
Professor Evelyn L. Hu, her research has focused on novel electronic and photonic behavior of heterogeneous nanostructures based on semiconductors. Her current work involves nanophotonic structures and explores the incorporation of biotemplated materials for electronic devices. She received her B.A. in physics from Barnard College, and her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in physics from Columbia University. She was a Member of Technical Staff, and subsequently a supervisor at AT&T Bell Laboratories before joining the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) in 1984 as a Professor in the Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and Materials. While at UCSB, she served as vice chair (1989 to 1992) and chair (1992 to 1994) of the ECE Department, as the Director of the Center for Quantized Electronic Structure (a National Science Foundation Science & Technology Center), and Director of the UCSB component of the NSF National Nanofabrication Users Network. She was the UCSB founding Director of the California NanoSystems Institute, in partnership with UCLA. She is a fellow of the IEEE (1994), the American Physical Society (1995), and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1998). She is a member of the National Academy of Engineering (2002), the Academica Sinica of Taiwan (2004) and the National Academy of Sciences (2008). She is the recipient of an NSF Distinguished Teaching Fellow award (2005), an AAAS Lifetime Mentor Award (2000), and holds an honorary Doctorate of Engineering from the University of Glasgow. In 2009, she joined the faculty of Harvard University.
Professor Teruo Kishi is a specialist in Material Science, Fracture and Nondestructive Testing of Metal and Ceramic Composites. He received his Doctorate from the University of Tokyo. He has served as a professor and director general at many leading institutions in the University of Tokyo, AIST etc.. Professor Kishi has been the President of National Institute of Material Science (NIMS) since 2001 and also he has been the Vice President of The Science Council of Japan from 2003 to 2005 and since 2007 he has been the President of The Japan Federation of Engineering Societies. He has been awarded many honors including ‘Honda Memorial Award' in Japan and ‘Dresden Barkhausen Award' in Germany
Professor Maw Kuen is a solid state experimentalist specialized in magnetism and superconductivity. Currently he also serves as the Director General of the National Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Program of Taiwan. He received his bachelor and master degrees in physics from Tamkang University in Taiwan, and completed his Ph.D., also in Physics, at the University of Huston. He has been a professor of physics at several institutions in Taiwan and in the U.S.; including University of Alabama (in Huntsville), Columbia University (New York City) and National Tsing Hua University (Taiwan). He has also served as a member of the Cabinet in Taiwan, once as deputy minister (May 2000-Feb. 2002), and then minister (May 2004-Jan 2006) of the National Science Council, which is the ministry in charge of science and technology development of Taiwan. Because of his discovery of the first superconductor with superconducting temperature higher than the boiling temperature of liquid nitrogen, he has been awarded many honours including a special award from NASA(1988), Bern Matthias Prize(1994) and Erice Prize (2008). He was elected to the membership of Academia Sinica (Taiwan) in 1998, the foreign associate of the US National Academy of Science in 2004, and the Third World Academy of Science also in 2004.
Professor Gernot Guntherodt is a Solid State Physics experimentalist specialized in magnetism, electron correlations and superconductivity. His present research interests concern nanomagnetism, transport in magnetic nanostructures and spintronics. Since 1987 he is Professor of Physics at RWTH Aachen University and a Director at the Physics Institute (IIA). He is head of the RWTH NanoClub, a multidisciplinary cooperation platform of this University. He received his Diploma in Physics from ETH Zurich, Switzerland, where he also received his Ph.D. in Physics in 1973. He worked as IBM World Trade Postdoctoral Fellow at the T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, USA. From 1975 to 1980 he was permanent Research Staff member at the Max-Planck-Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart. Until 1987 he was Professor of Physics at the University of Cologne, Germany. As a Visiting Professor he frequently (1981 – 2006) worked at the IBM Research Centers in Yorktown Heights and Almaden, at Bell Laboratories, Stanford University and UC San Diego. During 1987-1995 he served as Coordinator of the project “Basics of Technology of High-Tc Superconductors” at RWTH Aachen University, supported by the Federal Ministery of Research (BMBF). He was in charge of coordinating the “Collaborative Research Center” (SFB 341, Cologne-Aachen-Jülich) on "Physics of mesoscopic and low–dimensional metallic systems" (1988- 2000). Prof. Güntherodt coordinated the Cluster “Magnetoelectronics” within the National BMBF “Center of Competence on Lateral Nanostructures” in Germany (1998-2001). Presently he is head of the Magnetism Division of the German Physical Society.
Prof. Mark E. Welland FRS FREng is the head of The Nanoscience Centre at Cambridge University. He started his career in nanotechnology at IBM Research, Yorktown Heights, U.S., where he was part of the team that developed one of the first scanning tunneling microscopes. Upon moving to Cambridge in 1985 he set up the first tunneling microscopy group in the UK in collaboration with Prof. John Pethica. Currently the Nanoscale Science Laboratory at Cambridge researches into a number of aspects of nanotechnology ranging from sensors for medical applications to understanding and controlling the properties of nanoscale structures and devices. In a recent award by the UK Research Councils Prof. Welland has been made Director of an Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration in nanotechnology that, along with a purpose-built facility, represents an investment of $28 million for nanotechnology research at Cambridge. He is currently Editor-in-Chief of the Institute of Physics journal Nanotechnology, established in 1990, and, along with many other contributions at an International level, co-chairs the recently established Co-operative Research Initiative in Nanotechnology (CORINT) between the UK and Japan with Prof. Hiroyuki Sakaki of the University of Tokyo. In 2002 his contributions to nanotechnology research were recognised through his election to Fellowships of the Royal Society and Royal Academy of Engineering. He is also a Member of Council of the Royal United Services Institute. He is also on the advisory board of Seraphima Ventures - a venture capital firm focusing mainly on nanotechnology startup companies. In April 2008 he was appointed Chief Scientific Adviser (CSA) to the Ministry of Defence.
