VenkatGanesan

About

Venkat Ganesan joined The University of Texas at Austin in 2001 after spending two years as a postdoctoral fellow at the Materials Research Laboratory in University of California Santa Barbara (with Prof. Glenn Fredrickson). He is a recipient of an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, a National Science Foundation’s CAREER award, the American Physical Society’s Dillon Medal award (2009), a National Academy of Sciences Kavli Fellow (2009), was elected a fellow of American Physical Society (2013) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2018). 

Venkat’s research focus is to develop a theoretical and computationally-based program aimed at elucidating the fundamental mechanisms underlying the design of novel, self-assembled advanced materials. 

Educational Qualifications

Postdoctoral Fellow, Materials Research Laboratory, University of California at Santa Barbara (1999–2001)
Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1999)
M.S., Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1999)
B. Tech. in Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (1995)

Select Awards & Honors

• John H. Dillon Medal, American Physical Society (2009)
• Alfred P. Sloan Foundation fellow (2004-2006)
• NSF Career Award (2004-2009)

Related Websites

• Ganesan Polymer Physics Group
• Center for Materials for Water and Energy Systems (MWET)
• Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences
• Texas Materials Institute

Select Publications