UoH Alumnus appointed Director of the DST-CeNS
Hyderabad: Dr. BLV Prasad, an alumnus of the University of Hyderabad (UoH), and Chair, Physical and Materials Chemistry Division of CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory (CSIR-NCL), has been appointed as the Director of the Centre for Nano and Soft Matter Sciences (CeNS), Bengaluru. Dr. Prasad completed his M.Sc. Chemistry at the UoH and later obtained PhD from […]
Hyderabad: Dr. BLV Prasad, an alumnus of the University of Hyderabad (UoH), and Chair, Physical and Materials Chemistry Division of CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory (CSIR-NCL), has been appointed as the Director of the Centre for Nano and Soft Matter Sciences (CeNS), Bengaluru.
Dr. Prasad completed his M.Sc. Chemistry at the UoH and later obtained PhD from the university in 1997 working on the molecule-based magnetic materials and theoretical understanding of spin coupling in conjugated and non-conjugated organic radicals, the UoH in a press release said on Thursday.
He started working in the area of nanomaterials during the two post-doctoral stints at Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, followed by Kansas State University (KSU), USA.
At NCL his group is working on novel methods to prepare metal nanoparticles, nanoparticle and molecular self-assemblies and their applications, the release said, adding that Dr. Prasad is a fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences and Andhra Pradesh Academy of Sciences. The CeNS is an autonomous research institute under the Department of Science and Technology, and is engaged in materials research at all relevant length scales.
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