Ashutosh
Sharma is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at the Indian
Institute of Technology (IITK) Kanpur, where he is also
the Coordinator and PI of its DST Unit on Nanosciences and
holds an Institute Chair Professorship. Prof. Sharma is
a J. C. Bose National Fellow of the Department of Science
and Technology, Government of India.
Prof. Sharma obtained his B.Tech from IIT, Kanpur (1982),
M.S. from the Penn State University (1984) and Ph.D from
State University of New York at Buffalo (1987) working with
Prof. Eli Ruckenstein, who is a recipient of the US Medal
of Science. After a brief faculty stint (1987-1990) at the
School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, State University
of New York at Buffalo, he joined IIT, Kanpur in 1990, where
he became a full Professor in 1997. He was the Head of Chemical
Engineering Department between January 2003 and January
2006.
Ashutosh has authored over 160 peer-reviewed publications
in the high impact journals of his areas such as Science,
Physical Review Letters, Advanced Materials, Macromolecules,
Langmuir, J Chemical Phys, Soft Matter and J Colloid Interface
Science. His research spans interdisciplinary areas of interface
science, soft thin films, self-organization, meso-patterning,
nano-mechanics, micro/nano fluidics, functional interfaces
and carbon based functional materials and MEMS. These studies
have direct applications in a variety of nanotechnology
applications including soft micro- and nano- fabrication/patterning
of polymers, ceramics, hydrogels and carbon; Micro-batteries;
smart and functional interfaces, coatings and soft adhesives;
detergency, wetting, surface instabilities, adsorption and
nucleation.
He has been an invited or key note speaker at over 60 national
and international conferences. His publications have an
H-index of 28 and his ten most cited papers have received
over 1000 citations. Google Scholar search (August 2008)
lists Prof. Sharma as a key author in the following subject
searches: thin film stability, thin film wetting, thin film
instability, thin film rupture, thin film morphology, thin
film equilibrium, thin film breakup, thin film dewetting
and thin film patterning.
Ashutosh is an elected Fellow of all the Indian academies
of sciences and engineering which include the Indian National
Science Academy, Indian National Academy of Engineering,
Indian Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences,
India. He has been a member of the Editorial Boards of Chemical
Engineering Science (2007-), Canadian Journal of Chemical
Engineering (2006-), Indian Chemical Engineer (2006-) and
Journal of Colloid and Interface Science (2000-2002).
Professor Sharma has received numerous honors and awards
including the Distinguished Alumnus Award of IIT Kanpur
(2007); Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award of the Alexander
von Humboldt Foundation (2006); Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar
Prize in Engineering Sciences (2002) and all the research
awards of the Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers. He
has also served or serving on the Councils or Boards of
twelve prominent research institutes in India and has been
a member of numerous national scientific committees, including
the nano-technology mission of the Government of India.
