Ceramic Technologies group

The Ceramic Technologies Group

Principal Investigators

Center Leads

Prof. Ravi Kumar

Head
Laboratory for High Performance Ceramics
IIT Madras
INDIA

Prof. Sanjay Mathur

Director
Institute of Inorganic Chemistry
University of Cologne
GERMANY

Prof. Alexander Michaelis

Institute Director
Fraunhofer Institute for Ceramic
Technologies and Systems IKTS
GERMANY

Indian Investigators

Prof. K. C. Hari Kumar

Head
CALPHAD Laboratory
IIT Madras

Prof. Lakshman Neelakantan

Head
Corrosion Engineering and Materials
Electrochemistry Lab
IIT Madras

Prof. Manas Mukherjee

Head
Metal Foams & Porous Materials Lab
IIT Madras

Prof. Kavitha Arunachalam

Head
Electromagnetic Research Laboratory
IIT Madras

Prof. Parasuraman Swaminathan

Head
Electronic Materials and Thin Films Lab
IIT Madras

Prof. A. Arockiarajan

Head
Smart Material Characterization Lab
IIT Madras

Prof. Dillip K. Satapathy

Head
Soft Condensed Matter & Biological Physics Laboratory
IIT Madras

Prof. Alankar Alankar

Head
ICME and Materials Genome Lab
IIT Bombay

Prof. Sudip Chakraborty

Head
Materials Theory for Energy Scavenging Lab (MATES)
Harish-Chandra Research Institute (HRI) Allahabad

Prof. Bhuvanesh Srinivasan

Thermoelectrics Research Theme
IIT Madras

Prof. P. A. Ramakrishna

Head
Rockets & Missiles Lab
IIT Madras

International Investigators

Prof. Kwang-Ho Kim

President
Global Frontier R&D Centre for Hybrid Interface Materials Ceramics
Busan National University
KOREA

Prof. Maarit Karppinen

Head
Inorganic Materials Chemistry Group
Aalto University
FINLAND

Prof. Daniel Chua

Head
Centre for Advanced 2D Materials
National University of Singapore
SINGAPORE

Prof. Jochen Schneider

Chair of Materials Chemistry
RWTH Aachen University
GERMANY

Prof. Tohru Sekino

Director
Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research
Osaka University
JAPAN

Prof. Santi Maensiri

Director
SUT CoE on Advanced Functional Materials
Suranaree University of Technology
THAILAND

Prof. Monica Ferraris

Head
GLANCE (Glasses, Ceramics and Composites Lab)
Politecnico di Torino
ITALY

Prof. Olivier Guillon

Director
Institute for Energy and Climate Research Material Synthesis and Processing
Forschungszentrum Jülich
GERMANY

Prof. Ryo Maezono

School of Information Science
Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST)
JAPAN

Prof. Alberto Vomiero

Chair in Industrial Engineering, DSMN
Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
ITALY

Prof. Yasuhiro Tachibana

School of Engineering
RMIT University
AUSTRALIA

Prof. Ausrine Bartasyte

Deputy Director
Institute FEMTO-ST
University of Franche-Comté
FRANCE