Name Kuppuswamy Kalyanasundaram | ||
Kuppuswamy Kalyanasundaram is a senior scientist and researcher in chemistry at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne. His major research interests are in photochemistry and solar energy conversion, storage. He is part of the research group that developed "Dye Sensitized Solar Cells". He is best known for his work in Tamil computing and as the founder of Project Madurai.
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Life
Dr. Kalyanasundaram completed B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Chemistry at the University of Madras in 1969 and 1971 respectively. He received his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from University of Notre Dame in 1976. Following a two-year post-doctoral work at the Royal Institution of London, UK, he joined the teaching and research staff of the Chemistry Department of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology where he remains till today. He has held visiting faculty appointments at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA; Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India and VIT University, Vellore, India. He also holds appointment as Overseas Visiting Professor at the Anna University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. Kalyanasundaram has authored over 120 research papers in international journals and 4 research monographs on his photochemistry research. His research papers are well cited (over 22,000 citations with a h-index 49, placing him amongst the top chemists of Switzerland and of chemists of Indian origin).