Speaker

Prof. Dr. Sabu Thomas

Professor Sabu Thomas is presently the Director of the International and Interuniversity Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology and full professor of Polymer Science and Engineering at the School of Chemical Sciences of Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, India. Professor Sabu Thomas has more than 30 years’ experience in Polymer Science and Technology and has contributed greatly to the research and development of  Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. Prof Sabu Thomas received his Ph. D from IIT, Kharagpur and then joined as a Senior Visiting Researcher, A Katholieke University, Leuven, Belgium and Laval University, Quebec, Canada. Subsequently, he served as Associate Professor and Professor at the Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, India.  He is one of the pioneers of the field of polymer science and technology and has published over 750 peer reviewed research papers, reviews and book chapters. He has co-edited nearly 73 books and is the inventor of 5 patents. He has supervised 80 Ph. D theses and his H-index is 80 with nearly 30545 citations. Prof. Thomas has delivered over 300 Plenary/Inaugural and Invited lectures in national/international meetings over 30 countries. Professor Thomas  has received a number of national and international awards which including, Fellowship of the Royal Society of Chemistry, London, MRSI medal, Nano Tech Medal, CRSI medal, Distinguished Faculty Award, and  Sukumar Maithy Award for the best polymer researcher in the country. He is in the list of most productive researchers in India and holds a position of No.5. Thomas has been conferred Honoris Causa (D.Sc) by the University of South Brittany, Lorient, France in 2015 and in May 2016 he was awarded Loyalty Award in “International Materials Technology Conference Exhibition. Recently in 2017 he has been selected for conferring with D.Sc from University Lorraine France. To add to this he recently was also selected for Life time achievement award by Indian Nano-Biologist Association (INBA).