Ajayan VinuProfessor

Prof. Vinu is currently working as a Global Innovation Chair Professor for Advanced Nanomaterials and the Inaugural Director of Global Innovative Center for Advanced Nanomaterials at the University of Newcastle, Australia from October 2017. Before joining at UON, Prof. Vinu was working as a Full Professor of Nanomaterials, at the Future Industries Institute, University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes, Australia (2015 to 2017). His previous employment was as a Full Professor and ARC Future Fellow at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia during September 2011-2015. Before moving to Australia, he had been working as a senior researcher at the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Tsukuba, Japan since 2006 after he had successfully completed two years of the ICYS fellowship at the same institute and a few years of research at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern (TUK), Germany. Although Prof. Vinu registered his PhD at Anna University, he performed most of his PhD work at the TUK, Germany (2000-2003).