Ajayan Vinu is a material scientist. He is currently the Global Innovation Chair Professor for Advanced Nanomaterials and the director of Global Innovative Centre for Advanced Nanomaterials (GICAN), The University of Newcastle since October 2017 which houses more than 60 researchers including PhD students and staff. Before moving to the University of Newcastle, he was a professor of Nanomaterials at the University of South Australia from 2015-2017. and also worked at the

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as a Professor and ARC Future Fellow from 2011-2015. He is well known in the field of

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carbon nitride and was the first one to introduce porosity in carbon nitride materials which find applications in different areas of research including catalysis, energy storage and conversion and carbon dioxide capture, and photocatalytic water splitting for hydrogen generation.

Early life and education

Ajayan Vinu was born in a small village located at the extreme South of India called Arumanai in

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district in

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, India. He received his Bachelor's and master's degrees in chemistry from

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(MSU) in Tirunelveli district, India (1993-1998). He received his PhD degree in 2003 from

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, India, however, he carried out most of his PhD thesis work at Kaiserslautern University of Technology, Germany.

Research career

In 2004 he moved to the

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(NIMS), Japan as an International Young Scientist fellow. He has published more than 500 papers in journals with ca. 28,550 citations and an

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of 86 (

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). He is a fellow of the

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. In 2018, he was elected as a fellow of the

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and an academician of the World Academy of Ceramics. In 2019, he was elected as an academician of th
Asia-Pacific Academy of Materials
During his tenure at NIMS, he was appointed as the NIMS Ambassador to India, and was instrumental in setting up the NIMS-India research centre at

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and appointed to serve as a Research Director for this Center.

Awards and honors

* Academician, Asia-Pacific Academy of Materials (2019) *Medal, Chemical Research Society of India (2018) *Fellow, World Academy of Arts and Science 2018 * Fellow, Royal Society of Chemistry 2013 *Academician, World Academy of Ceramics, 2017 * Fellow, Royal Australian Chemical Institute 2017 * Foreign Fellow Award Maharashtra Academy of Sciences 2015 *Scopus Young Researcher Award- Elsevier 2014 * ARC Future Fellowship Award 2010 * Bessel Humboldt Award (2010) * CSJ Young Chemist Award (2010) * Award of Excellence from Indian Society of Chemists and Biologists(2009) * Khwarizmi International Award for applied research at 21st session in 2008 alongside Prof C. N. R. Rao who received this award for innovation

References

External links

The Profile of Prof. Ajayan Vinu at the University of NewcastleVinu's research group at the university of Newcastle
{{DEFAULTSORT:Vinu, Ajayan 1976 births Living people People from Kanyakumari district Technical University of Kaiserslautern alumni University of South Australia faculty Fellows of the Royal Society of Chemistry