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Professor Seeram RAMAKRISHNA, FREng
Vice President (Research Strategy)
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Seeram Ramakrishna is currently the Vice-President (Research Strategy) and Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the National University of Singapore, NUS. Before this, he served as the Dean of NUS Faculty of Engineering during 2003-2008. He is also the founding Co-Director of NUS Nanoscience & Nanotechnology Initiative, NUSNNI since 2002, www.nusnni.nus.edu.sg.
As a vice-president his responsibilities include a) enhancing research excellence & visibility of university; b) building research collaborations with leading institutions around the world, and c) fostering synergistic partnerships with funding bodies and members of the Campus for Research Excellence and Technological Enterprise, CREATE worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
He serves on the management boards of Global Asia Institute, GAI; Institution of Engineers Singapore (IES); Energy Studies Institute (ESI), Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Trade & Industry; Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore (SERIS), Clean Energy Program Office, National Research Foundation; Temasek Polytechnic, Ministry of Education; and DSO National Laboratories, Ministry of Defence.
He received his PhD in Materials Science & Engineering from the University of Cambridge and General Management training from the Harvard University. He is an acknowledged global leader for his pioneering work on engineering of nanofibers for regenerative medicine, harvesting solar energy, and water treatment. He authored five books and over three hundred peer reviewed journal papers. He developed aesthetic orthodontic brackets & arch wires and electrospinning machine, which are now commercially manufactured. According to the ISI Web of Knowledge, he is ranked 68th in the world in Materials Science by Essential Science Indicators. He is a Fellow of major professional societies in Singapore, ASEAN, UK and USA. He is a recipient of Changjiang Professorship of China, ASEAN Outstanding Engineering Award, NUS Outstanding Researcher Award, Lee Kuan Yew Fellowship, and Cambridge Nehru Scholarship.
He is the author of The Changing Face of Innovation: Is it Shifting to Asia! He is a Faculty Associate of the Global Asia Institute, and delivers invited lectures on global trends of higher education, research and innovation.
