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Ashutosh Sharma is currently Institute Chair Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering & the Coordinator of the Center for Nanosciences at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. Ashutosh obtained his B.Tech from IIT Kanpur (1982), M.S. from The Pennsylvania State University (1984) and Ph.D. from State University of New York at Buffalo (1987) working with Prof. Eli Ruckenstein-a recipient of the US Medal of Science. After a brief stint (1988-90) at the SUNY School of Medicine< and Biomedical Sciences as a research faculty, he joined IIT Kanpur in 1990.
Ashutosh's group works in the areas of mechanics and instabilities of soft visco-elastic interfaces, thin films and nano-systems; self-organized meso-patterning of polymers, ceramics, hydrogels and carbon; interfacial and colloidal interactions; wetting and adhesion; smart and functional materials; biosurfaces; and microfluidics/MEMS/NEMS. Ashutosh's group has published two edited books and over 200 peer reviewed journal papers.
Ashutosh has served on the Editorial Advisory Boards of Journal of Colloid & Interface science, Chemical Engineering Science, Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering and Indian Chemical Engineer. He is an elected fellow of all the Indian academies of science and engineering and a Fellow of TWAS--the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World. Among his many awards, he is a recipient of the TWAS Science Prize, Infosys Prize, Bhatnagar Prize, Bessel Research Award of the Humboldt Foundation, Distinguished Alumnus Award of IIT Kanpur and a J. C. Bose Fellowship of the Department of Science & Technology.
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