A. S. Achalkumar
Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
Biography
Achalkumar Ammathnadu Sudhakar is working as a full professor at the Department of Chemistry, IIT Guwahati from 2019, where he leads the Soft Matter Research Group. He is also associated with the Centre for Sustainable Polymers at IIT Guwahati. He received his PhD from Centre for Nano and Soft Matter 新月直播app下载s (CeNS) Bengaluru.
Achalkumar worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre for Molecular Nano 新月直播app下载s, University of Leeds, UK (2007 to 2009) and at RIKEN Advanced 新月直播app下载 Institute, Wakoshi, Japan (2009 to 2011), before joining IIT Guwahati. He has been the recipient of Indian Liquid Crystal Society Silver Medal 2019 for his research achievements.
His research interests fall in the broad area of liquid crystals, supramolecular chemistry, functional polymers, organogels and self-assembled organic semiconductors. He has published around 90 papers and 3 patents. He has several invited articles and hot articles to his credit. He is also serving as a Dean of Outreach Education Program at IIT Guwahati to popularise science and maths among school children. He is the life member of Indian Liquid Crystal Society, Chemical Research Society and Society for Polymer 新月直播app下载 in India.
RSC affiliations
Associate editors, Materials Advances
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