R AM S ESHADRI Professor, Materials Department, and Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry Co-Director, Materials Research Laboratory: An NSF MRSEC Address: Materials Research Laboratory, Room 3008 University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-5121 USA Phone: (805) 893 6129 email: [email protected] FAX: (805) 893 8797 internet: http://www.mrl.ucsb.edu/∼seshadri Research vision Compositional control of structure-property relations in complex functional inorganic materials; enlarging the toolkit of techniques that enable such control. Education: 1990-1995 M.S. in Chemistry & PhD in Solid State Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India (with C. N. R. Rao FRS). PhD thesis titled Investigations on Fullerenes, Carbon Nanotubes, Onions and Small Gold Particles. 1986-1989 B.Sc. (Hons.) Chemistry, St. Stephens College, Delhi University, India. Employment: 2008–present Professor, Materials Department, and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UC Santa Barbara. 2006–2008 Associate Professor, Materials Department, and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UC Santa Barbara. 2002–2006 Assistant Professor, Materials Department, UC Santa Barbara. 1999–2002 Assistant Professor, Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit, Indian Institute of Science. 1997–1999 Post-Doctoral Fellow with Professor Wolfgang Tremel at the Institut f¨ ur Anorganische Chemie, Universit¨ at Mainz, Germany: Magnetic and CDW chalcogenides, biomineralization, and electronic structure of functional materials. 1995–1996 Post-Doctoral Fellow with Professor Bernard Raveau at the Laboratoire CRISMAT, Caen, France: High-TC superconductors and CMR manganites. 1989–1990 Pre-Doctoral Researcher in the Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit, Indian Institute of Science: High-TC copper- and bismuth-oxide superconductors. Research contributions Research efforts in the group are focused on the theme of developing structure – composition – property relations in functional inorganic materials. Contributions include the development of solvothermal routes for a variety of inorganic nanomaterials, understanding the rˆ ole that lone pairs of non-bonding electrons in ions such as Pb2+ and Bi3+ play in inducing polar and ferroic (including multiferroic) behavior, understanding the effects of structural topology in frustrating phase transitions in polar compounds, developing template-free routes to porous and composite inorganic materials, developing new multifunctional magnets, understanding frustrated magnetism, and revealing the importance of oxide-stabilized noble metal ions in oxidation catalysis, with the concurrent development of model compounds thereof. Recent contributions include a better understanding of phosphors for solid-state white lighting, and the development of new phosphors. CV S EPTEMBER 21, 2014 1/3 R AM S ESHADRI Service and recognition: 2014 Associate Editor, Chemistry of Materials. 2014 UCSB Academic Senate Graduate Mentoring Award. 2013 UCSB Margaret T. Getman Service to Students Award. 2013 Co-Director, Materials Research Laboratory: An NSF MRSEC. 2013 Editorial Board Member, Journal of Solid State Chemistry. 2010 Fellowship of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC). 2009 Visiting Fellow Commoner, Trinity College, Cambridge, UK. 2009 Editorial Committee Member, Annual Reviews of Materials Research. 2009–2013 Associate Director, Materials Research Laboratory (NSF-MRSEC), UCSB. ´ cole Polytechnique. 2009 Saint-Gobain Chair Visiting Professor, E 2009–2012 US Associate Editor, Journal of Materials Chemistry. 2008–2014 Director, ConvEne IGERT Program (supported by the NSF). 2006 Professeur Invit´e, Universit´e de Versailles, Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines. 2005 American Chemical Society ExxonMobil Solid State Chemistry Faculty Fellowship. 2004 Co-PI of a National Science Foundation Chemical Bonding Center. 2004 National Science Foundation Career Award. 2002 Journals Grant from the Royal Society of Chemistry/visitor at the Chemistry Department, Manchester. ´ cole Centrale Paris. 2000 Professeur Invit´e, E 1999, 2001 Visitor, Anorganische Chemie, Universit¨ at Mainz. 1999 Journals Grant from the Royal Society of Chemistry/visitor at the Chemistry Department, Queen Mary, University of London. 1999 Young Associate of the Indian Academy of Science. 1996 Sudborough Medal for Best Thesis (over a 2-year period), Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit. Former graduate students (with current location): Bangalore: Ujjal Gautam (JNCASR, Bangalore), Sudip Barman (NISER Bhubaneswar Faculty), Moumita Ghosh (DuPont, Hyderabad), Hem Kandpal (IIT Roorkee Faculty) Santa Barbara: Aditi Risbud (University of Utah Lecturer), Eric S. Toberer (Colorado School of Mines Faculty), Katharine Page (ORNL Staff), Brent Melot (USC Faculty), Daniel Shoemaker (UIUC Faculty), Joshua Kurzman (Colorado State Post-Doc); Nathan George (Nuvosun), Phillip Barton (Soraa), Lauren Misch (Intel), Moureen Kemei (Caltech Post-Doc), and Kimberly See (UIUC Post-Doc). Former post-doctoral fellows (with current location): Dave Wolfe, K. Ramesha (CECRI Chennai Staff), Ombretta Masala (Nanoco Technologies), Jun Li (Oregon State), Srinivasa Thimmaiah (Ames Lab Staff), Young-Il Kim (Yeongnam University Faculty), Serena Corr (University of Glasgow Faculty), Won Bin Im (Chonnam Natl. University Faculty), Alexander Birkel (ITICON GmbH), Christina S. Birkel (TU Darmstadt Faculty Track), Taylor Sparks (University of Utah Faculty), and Jakoah Brgoch (University of Houston Faculty). CV S EPTEMBER 21, 2014 2/3 R AM S ESHADRI Former co-advised students (with current location): Efrain Rodriguez (University of Maryland College Park Faculty), James Neilson (Colorado State University Faculty). Current graduate students: Kristin Denault (2010-present), Jason Douglas (2011-present), Michael Gaultois (2011-present), Malinda Buffon (2012-present), Megan Butala (2012-present), Leo Lamontagne (2013-present), Clayton Cozzan (2014-present), Hayden Evans (2014-present), and Douglas Fabini (2014-present). Current post-doctoral fellows: Dr. Anna Lehner (PhD Freiburg, Germany, 2013) Current junior specialist: Jaye Harada (BS Physics UCSB, 2012) Current and past undergraduate interns (over 50): Please see web site above. Publications (over 250) and patents: Please see: http://www.mrl.ucsb.edu/∼seshadri/respubs.html CV S EPTEMBER 21, 2014 3/3
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