简介
Dr. Saravanan Rajendran is currently working as a Professor in the IAI, University of Tarapacá, Arica, Chile, and. also as Research Associate in SERC, University of Chile, and Santiago, Chile. He received his PhD in Physics – Material Science in 2013 from the Department of Nuclear Physics, University of Madras, Chennai, India. He was awarded the University Research Fellowship (URF) during the years 2009–2011 by the University of Madras. After working as an Assistant Professor at Dhanalakshmi College of Engineering, Chennai, India, from 2013 to 2014, he was awarded SERC and CONICYT-FONDECYT postdoctoral fellowship by the University of Chile, Santiago, Chile, in 2014–2017. He has worked (2017–2018) in the research group of Professor John Irvine, School of Chemistry, University of St Andrews, UK, as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow within the framework of a EPSRC-Global Challenges Research Fund for the removal of Blue-Green Algae and their toxins. He is Associate Editor of International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology (Springer). Also, Editorial Member and Guest Editor of several reputed journals. Currently, He is handling several project FONDECYT, FONDAP, UTAMAYOR and etc., His research interests focus in the area of nanostructured functional materials, photophysics, surface chemistry and nanocatalysts for renewable energy and wastewater purification. He has published in 170+ (10900+ citation and h index 46) international peer-reviewed journals and 20+ book chapters and edited 13+ books for renowned international Publishers. He was awarded 2% top scientists by Stanford University researchers, USA for the last three years continuously. Further, recently his name was in the list of Top 1% world scientist by Clarivate (WOS).based citations.
