Prof. Suresh C. Pillai, PhD, MBA, FRMS, FIMMM, Atlantic Technological University, ATU Sligo, Ireland
Prof. Suresh C. Pillai completed PhD in the area of Nanotechnology from Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. He then performed his postdoctoral research at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), USA. Upon completion of this appointment, he returned to Trinity College Dublin as a Research Fellow before joining CREST-DIT as a Senior Scientist in April 2004. He joined Atlantic Technological University in 2013 as a senior lecturer in nanotechnology and currently leads the Nanotechnology and Bio-Engineering Research Group. He is the recipient of the ‘Boyle-Higgins Award-2019’ from the Institute of Chemistry, Ireland. He also received the Linus Pauling Lecture Award 2020 from Mahatma Gandhi University. He is an elected fellow of the UK’s Royal Microscopical Society (FRMS) and the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (FIMMM. He is the lead inventor in several granted US patents (awarded in 2013, 2015 and 2022), UK patent (awarded in 2015), and a number of patents in other jurisdictions.
His research was featured in various international media, including BBC World, BBC London, and RTE-1 TV, as well as in a number of national and international print media (Times UK, The Guardian, Irish Times, etc.). He is a recipient of the ‘Industrial Technologies Award 2011’ for licensing functional coatings to Irish companies. He was also the recipient of the ‘Hothouse Commercialisation Award 2009’ and the recipient of the ‘Enterprise Ireland Research Commercialisation Award 2009’. He has also been nominated for the ‘One to Watch’ Award 2009 for commercialising R&D work (Enterprise Ireland). One of the nanomaterials-based environmental technologies developed by his research team was selected to demonstrate as one of the fifty ‘innovative technologies’ (selected after screening over 450 nominations from the EU) at the first Innovation Convention organised by the European Commission on 5-6th December 2011. Currently, he is the co-editor-in-chief/ executive editor of the journal Results in Engineering (Elsevier) and an executive editor of the Chemical Engineering Journal (Elsevier).
