Sri Sivakumar has done B. Sc (Chemistry) from Manomaniam Sundaranar University, Tamilnadu in 1993 followed by B.Sc. (Tech) and M.Sc. (Tech)in Chemical Technology from University of Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai in 1997 and 2001, respectively. Sri Sivakumar obtained his Ph.D. from University of Victoria, Canada in 2006. He was a Postdoctoral Associate at the Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, University of Melbourne, Australia from 2006 to 2008. Sri Sivakumar joined Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in November 2008 where he is presently working as Associate Professor. He has also worked in industry for two years after his B.Sc. (Tech). His research areas include development of multifunctional nanomaterials such as lanthanide nanoparticles, polymer/carbon capsules, semiconductor nanoparticles, metal clusters, etc. for applications such as solid-state lightings, catalytic reactions, solar hydrogen generation, fuel cells, particular drug delivery and bio-imaging. Sri Sivakumar has guided 1 Ph.D and 17 M.Tech. theses till now. Currently 14 Ph.D. research scholars and 7 M. Tech students are involved in various research activities in his laboratory. He has 25 research publications in international peer reviewed journals. Sri Sivakumar can be contacted at srisiva@iitk.ac.in.
