Professor Dr. Satheesh Krishnamurthy  earned his Bachelors, Masters in Physics from University of Madras, Chennai, India and Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. His Ph.D was sponsored by Overseas Research Scholarship, an award is among the most selective and prestigious awards offered to international students and scholarships are awarded on the basis of academic excellence and research potential by the UK Higher Education Authority. After spending 4 years as a postdoctoral researcher in Trinity College Dublin and further 4 years in Dublin City University.

During his postdoctoral research, he has worked in several European Union, Ireland India, Science foundation Ireland funded research projects involving Industry and academia, to address key challenges in carbon nanotechnology, oxide semiconductors for industrial applications.

In 2012 he joined as a Lecturer in Energy at The Open University, UK. From 2017, he is the chair of Energy Technology and Nanoscale energy and surface Engineering at The Open University.

Professor Satheesh's research interests include synthesis, surface engineering, structure-property relations of nanostructures and nanocomposites, materials science and applications of nanomaterials, energy storage, waste water treatment and superhydrophobic coating technologies. He has published one book and 100 journal papers with nearly 10,000 citations and an h-index of 32, based on ISI database. He has given more than 150 invited talks including several named lectures, keynote and plenary lectures in several countries and at several international conferences.

His PhD work came in BBC as he was involved in discovering new material called gold nitride. He is one of the pioneers in the field of surface engineering of 2D materials through atmospheric pressure plasma based technologies with specific applications related to waste water treatment, additive manufacturing and energy from waste.

Elected as:

• Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK),
• Fellow of Institute of Materials Minerals and Mining.

Awards:

• The UK India research excellence award, by the British Council and Confederation of Indian Industry was given by UK prime minister delegation to India.
• British Asian Scientist of the year award.
• One of the top 40 engineers to represent in an EU US Frontiers in Engineering program.
• Top 20 Engineers in UK to represent Frontiers in Engineering for Development at South Africa, Pretoria, Feb 2018
• Department of Science and Technology, Ministry of Human Resource Development, INSPIRE Award, outreach lecture to school students in India, August 2018
• Global Initiative award for Academic Networks funded by Ministry of Education India.

Accolades:

• Invited by Late former president of India and Scientist, Dr APJ Abdul Kalam to discuss nanotechnology initiatives in India and creation of various entrepreneurial activities.
• Invited by the Prime minister of India office for Global summit for overseas and resident Indian scientist and academics conceptualisation team (VAIBHAV), he was the only participant from UK to be invited for the team.
• Top 40 Engineers to represent EU US Frontiers in Engineering at USA
• Member of EU India delegation to India in 2012

Panel member of:

• UNESCO
• Royal Academy of Engineering
• Many other research international councils.

Prof. Satheesh also loves cricket as much as academics, a hard hitting batter bowling medium pace is still a active member of the local cricket team in Milton Keynes where he lives with his wife and 2 children.