Venkat Ganesan
Frank Lidell Centennial Fellow and Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering
The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, Texas 78712-1062
Education
- Ph.D., Chemical Engineering (Prof. Howard Brenner), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999
- M.S., Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999
- B. Tech, Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, 1995
Research Interests
- Polymer Photovoltaics
- Fuel Cell Membranes
- Drug Delivery
- Polymer Nanocomposites
Awards
- National Science Foundation’s CAREER Award (2004-2009)
- Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship (2004-2006)
- American Physical Society’s John H. Dillon Medal (2009).
- Invited Participant in National Academy of Sciences Frontiers of Science Meeting, Kunming, China
(2009).
- Kavli Fellow, US National Academy of Sciences, 2009.
- Visiting Professorship, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India (Aug. – Dec. 2008).
- Chevron Centennial Teaching Fellowship in Engineering (2004-2007)
- Invited participant and speaker at DOE Workshop on Multiscale Mathematics (October 2004)
- Invited participant and speaker at NSF Workshop on Opportunities in Materials Theory (2002).
- Invited Participant at the Texas Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Science Annual Meeting
(2007).
- Frank Liddell Centennial Fellowship in Engineering (2007- Present).