Collaborators
Director i/c
Dr. Vidya Ravindran had started her research career at University of
Oslo, Norway in 2000. Her
core expertise is Modelling of Materials using Density-Functional Theory (DFT) based
computations. She has acquired her Ph.D degree with Honors (Known as Doctorum
Scientarum
– Dr. Scient.) in December 2005 from University of Oslo, Norway. Her Ph.D thesis
work
was on
charge and orbital ordering in mixed-valent transition-metal oxides (especially
perovskites) and
included 25 research articles; she was the first author in 15 of them. She was
involved
in
developing tools for visualizing charge and orbital ordering in manganites, which
are
structurally
related to the high-Tc superconducting cuprates. She has been focussing on the
multi-functional
characteristics of materials such as: magneto-optical, magneto-electrical,
magneto-resistive, and
transparent-conducting etc.
From 2005 till 2014, she worked as Post-Doctoral Researcher and Senior Researcher at
the
Centre for Materials Science & Nanotechnology, University of Oslo, Norway and
worked
on
defect energetics in semiconductors also.
She has been carrying out teaching as well as research activities at Anna University
since 2014.
Currently her group works on a wide variety of materials relevant for renewable
energy,
oxides
with magnetic characters, materials for bio-medical applications, radiation
dosimeters,
drug-
delivery systems, and photocatalysts for dissociation of pollutant gases. They
provide a
thorough
understanding on the fundamental properties of materials, so that their application
domain is
expanded. They have started utilizing the latest developments in the field of
Informatics, viz
Machine-learning and deep-learning algorithms for their Materials research. With the
founding
of Centre for Materials Informatics – this cross-disciplinary endeavor shall
flourish
further.
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