Dr. S. Manivannan received Ph.D., from Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, India in the year 2006. He completed postdoctoral research in the Department of Information Display & Advanced Display Research Center, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, South Korea. His research area of interest includes on carbon nanomaterials (CNT, graphene oxides, carbon dots), gas sensors, transparent films and devices, organic and semi-organic nonlinear optical (NLO) materials and polymer nanocomposites. He joined as faculty in the year 2008 and currently serving as a Professor in Department of Physics, National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli.
To his credit, Dr. Manivannan published about 77 papers in peer reviewed international journals and more than 78 papers in national/international conference proceedings/abstracts. He successfully completed three sponsored research projects for about Rs.1.5 crores funding from DST, CSIR and DRDO as PI and CO-PI, and has two Indian patents.
He acquired American Society for Non-destructive Testing (ASNT)- Level -2 certification in Ultrasonic Testing. Dr.Manivannan guided 06 Ph.D., 01 M.S., 41 M.Tech. and 25 M.Sc. students for their projects. Currently 05 Ph.D students are working under his guidance. He has organized around 07 conferences/workshops/courses at NIT Trichy. He is the life member of Indian Society for Non-destructive Testing, Photonics Society of India, Materials Research Society of India (MRSI) and member in SPIE-USA, International Association of Advanced Materials. Dr.Manivannan travelled extensively, interacted with experts, and participated in various academic programmes in South Korea, Japan, Poland, United States of America, Singapore, China, Sri Lanka and delivered more than 50 invited talks. He is also serving as a reviewer in many international journals.
He also received DST- Junior and CSIR-Senior Research Fellowships. He is the recipient of Brain Korea 21 postdoctoral fellowship during the year 2007-2008. He received Young Scientist Research Grant of Rs.20.00 lakhs from DST, India in the year 2010. He won many best paper awards, notably from European Materials Research Society in the year 2008, session’s best presentation award from International Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology 2016 at Colombo, Sri Lanka, IUMRS-ICYRAM 2016 at IISc, Bangalore. He has been honoured with faculty achiever’s award at NIT, Tiruchirappalli in the year 2017, 2018 and 2021. He has been awarded Tamil Nadu Young Scientist Award for the year 2016 in the discipline of Physical Sciences. Dr. S. Manivannan has also been awarded as Outstanding Faculty in Science -2017 by Venus International Foundation, Chennai. Recently, he received the Distinguished Alumnus Award (2021) from Jamal Mohamed College, Tiruchirappalli.
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