Dr. Moorthi Pichumani

Faculty Description

Dr. Moorthi Pichumani is currently working as Professor & Head in the Nano Science and Technology Department at Sri Ramakrishna Engineering College, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu. Formerly, he was the DST INSPIRE Faculty at the Department (B2014). He completed his Bachelor's Degree (with distinction and University rank) in Physics from Periyar University (affiliated to), Salem, in the year 2006. He completed his Masters' degree (with distinction and two gold medals) in Materials Science from PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore (Anna University, Chennai) in the year 2008. He completed his Ph.D. from University of Navarra (Doctoral fellowship by the Asociación de Amigos), Spain in the year 2012. He has been awarded Latin honor "Cum Laude" for the successful completion of doctoral studies. He has worked in various international projects from Government of Navarra (Spain), Government of Spain and Government of Canada as a researcher. He has ongoing international collaborations with leading Universities in Spain and Canada. He has around 15 years of teaching and 16 years of research experience. Four fulltime PhD scholars have been awarded PhD under his guidance in the field of soft matter, nanomaterials, materials science and plasma physics. He is currently mentoring one Postdoctoral fellow and seven PhD scholars. He has published several research papers in reputed high impact international journals of Springer, Elsevier, APS, ACS, etc.  He has contributed to several international conferences (US, Canada, Spain, Italy, Germany, Austria and India), published a few national and international conference papers and received best paper awards. He has organized national conferences, seminars, internships and workshops. He is a life member of ISTE. Research interest includes soft matter, nanomaterials, materials science and nanofluids.  He is a peer reviewer of SERB funding agency of Government of India. He is a peer reviewer in international journals like energy conversion and management, journal of colloid and interface science, journal of thermal analysis and calorimetry, multidiscipline modeling in materials and structures, colloids and surfaces A: physicochemical and engineering aspects, materials research express etc. His expertise leads to funding projects from DST INSPIRE (value Rs. 35 Lakhs), DST TDP Nano-Civil Multidisciplinary Project (value Rs. 26 Lakhs) and DST WOS(A)  (value Rs. 23 Lakhs), CSIR-SRF (Value Rs. 16 Lakhs), UGC- SJPSGCF (Value Rs. 25 Lakhs) as mentor. He participated as an active researcher in the research projects funded by SREC seed grant for research and innovation and the outcomes have been converted to IPRs. He has acted as resource person for various FDPs, conferences, seminars, guest lectures and attended various conferences, FDPs and workshops, in his area of expertise.