Dr. Venkata Krishnan
Professor
IIT, Mandi
Prof. Dr. Venkata Krishnan completed his Ph.D. in Chemistry in 2006 from University
of Stuttgart, Germany. Subsequently, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at University
of Pennsylvania, U.S.A. from 2006 to 2010 and then as a research associate at National
Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Tsukuba, Japan from 2010 to 2012. He joined as a
faculty at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Mandi in April 2012 and is currently a full
professor. His research group is mainly working in the field of Green Chemistry and
Heterogeneous Catalysis for Energy and Environment Applications. He has successfully
guided 1 postdoc, 13 Ph.D. and 38 M.Sc. students and is currently guiding 10 Ph.D., 2 M.Sc.
and 1 B.S. students, in addition to several short-term research interns. Prof. Krishnan has
published more than 200 articles in well reputed international journals, 14 book chapters
and has been granted 6 patents. He has an h-index of 67 as per Google Scholar. In addition
to being a reviewer for several scientific journals, he serves as an Associate Editor of the
New Journal of Chemistry, published by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) and is on the
Editorial Advisory Board of ACS ES&T Engineering, published by the American Chemical
Society (ACS). He has been bestowed with several awards, including CRSI Bronze Medal,
MRSI Medal, DST INSPIRE faculty award, IIT Mandi foundation day award for excellence in
teaching, MANA research fellowship, DoE postdoctoral fellowship, DFG doctoral fellowship,
DAAD visiting scholar fellowship, etc. Besides teaching and research, he has served IIT
Mandi in various administrative positions, such as first warden of the main hostel in
permanent campus, founding coordinator of Advanced Materials Research Center (AMRC),
Associate Dean Research and Dean of Sponsored Research, Industrial Consultancy, and
International Relations (SRIC & IR). He has also served as Director of IIT Mandi Catalyst (a
technology business incubator) and Director of IIT Mandi iHub and HCi foundation (a
technology innovation hub). He also serves on several scientific and administrative
committees at institute, national and international levels. Apart from academics, he likes
reading books and is interested in linguistics.