Six IIT Madras Professors Receive Prestigious ANRF J.C. Bose Grants
Chennai, Aug. 7 (TNT): Six faculty members of the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) have been awarded the prestigious Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF) J.C. Bose Grant, recognising their outstanding contributions to research in engineering and science.
The awardees are Prof. Sujatha Srinivasan (Mechanical Engineering), Prof. Thalappil Pradeep (Chemistry), Prof. Deepa Venkitesh (Electrical Engineering), Prof. Jitendra S. Sangwai (Chemical Engineering), Prof. Ramakrishnan Swaminathan (Applied Mechanics and Biomedical Engineering), and Prof. Sundargopal Ghosh (Chemistry), the Institute said in a release here on Friday.
Congratulating the awardees, IIT Madras Director Prof. V. Kamakoti said the recognition reflects the high quality of research and development being carried out at the institute in critical and emerging technologies.
The ANRF J.C. Bose Grant recognises active senior scientists and engineers for outstanding research achievements and aims to encourage cutting-edge scientific and engineering research through enhanced extra-mural funding.
Under the scheme, each awardee will receive ₹25 lakh annually for five years to support frontier research, including expenditure on manpower, equipment, consumables, travel and other research-related activities, along with institutional overhead support.
Among the recipients, Prof. Sujatha Srinivasan has been recognised for her work in prosthetics, assistive and rehabilitation technologies, while Prof. Thalappil Pradeep has made pioneering contributions in clean water technologies, nanomaterials and ice chemistry.
Prof. Deepa Venkitesh has been honoured for her work in optical communications, Prof. Jitendra S. Sangwai for research in carbon capture and upstream oil and gas engineering, Prof. Ramakrishnan Swaminathan for biomedical instrumentation and medical device design, and Prof. Sundargopal Ghosh for his contributions to transition metal boron chemistry.
The grant is open to scientists and engineers aged between 45 and 65 years working in recognised academic and research institutions.
Awardees are selected based on research achievements, including publications, patents, technology transfer, research outcomes and other indicators of scientific excellence.
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