Nationality Indian Fields Computational biology Residence India | Name Ramakrishna Ramaswamy Doctoral advisor Herschel Rabitz | |
Born 14 October 1953 (age 70)
Madras, Tamil Nadu, India ( 1953-10-14 ) Institutions University of Hyderabad, Jawaharlal Nehru University Alma mater University of Madras, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Princeton University | ||
Failure of understanding an open debate with prof ramakrishna ramaswamy vc uoh
Ram Ramaswamy (born 14 October 1953 in Chennai, India) is an Indian scientist. He obtained his B. Sc. in Chemistry (1972) from Loyola College, Chennai, then M. Sc. in Chemistry from the IIT, Kanpur, and Ph. D. (1978) from Princeton University where he worked under the supervision of Herschel Rabitz. He then moved to California Institute of Technology, Pasadena where he was between 1978 and 1980, working with Prof. Rudolph A. Marcus. He returned to India in 1980 and joined the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research as Visiting Fellow (1981) and Fellow (1983). In 1986 he moved to the Jawaharlal Nehru University as one of the first members of the School of Physical Sciences, and has been at JNU since then. In addition to a Professorship in the School of Physical Sciences, he is also on the faculty of the Centre for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics in the School for Computational and Integrative Sciences at JNU. He as on date supervised about 25 PhD students.
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As on 2015, according to Scopus, he authored 171 research articles which are cited by 2214 documents with a H-index of 26.
He spent a year on sabbatical at the Institute for Molecular Science in Okazaki, Japan (1989–90). A second sabbatical (2004–05) was spent at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. In 2011 he was appointed Vice Chancellor of the University of Hyderabad. He resigned the position in January 2015, returning to his substantive positions at the Jawaharlal Nehru University.
He was Vice President of the Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi, as well as of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore. He is currently President of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore (as of January 2016).