Prof. Ganpati Ramanath, PhD
Foundational Member of ISAAAC Advisory Board
John Tod Horton Chair Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York

Professor Ganpati Ramanath received his PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Illinois-Urbana in 1997. His doctoral work won him a Materials Research Society Graduate Student Award (now known as the Gold Award). He obtained his M.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Cincinnati and B. Tech. in Metallurgical Engineering from IIT, Madras, India. He was a staff member at Novellus Systems, CA (now Lam Research), and a Visiting Scientist at the Physics Department, Linköping University, Sweden, before he joined the faculty at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, in Fall 1998 as an Assistant Professor. He became a tenured Associate Professor in 2003, and Professor in 2006. He was appointed Chair Professor, John Tod Horton Professor, in 2013.

He is a Co-Founder and Director of ThermoAura Inc., a start-up cofounded by him in 2011 to bring new materials technologies to the marketplace. He also served as the Director of the New York State Center for Future Energy Systems (2008-2010). He serves as an Editor of IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology and is an Editorial Advisory Board member for Journal of Experimental Nanoscience.

  • Visiting Professor, RWTH, Aachen University, Germany (2013)
  • IISc, Bangalore, India—Brahm Prakash Chair Professorship and Visiting Professor
  • The Max-Planck-Institute für Festkörperforschung, Stuttgart, Germany (2004-5)
  • NIMS-ICYS and WPI for Materials Nano-architectronics, Tsukuba, Japan (2004, 2010)
  • Visiting Professor, University of Wollongong, Australia (2007)
  • American Physical Society Fellow (2016)
  • American Vacuum Society Fellow (2013)
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Award, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, DE (2013)
  • Brahm Prakash Visiting Professorship, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (2013)
  • Alexander von Humboldt Fellow (2004)
  • Professor Bergman Young Scientist Award US-Israel Binational Science Foundation
  • National Science Foundation CAREER award (2000),
  • IBM Research Partnership Award (2000-2013)
  • Materials Research Society Graduate Student Gold Award for Outstanding Research
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