Murali Sastry was born on 10 June 1959 and is an Indian material chemist, nanomaterial scientist and the chief executive officer of the IITB-Monash Research Academy.
13 Facts About Murali Sastry
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Murali Sastry is a former chief scientist at Tata Chemicals and a former senior scientist at the National Chemical Laboratory.
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Murali Sastry is known for his studies on surfaces, films and materials chemistry and is an elected fellow of Maharashtra Academy of Sciences and the Indian Academy of Sciences.
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Murali Sastry, born on 10 June 1959 in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu, completed his master's degree in chemistry in 1982 at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.
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Murali Sastry continued at the institute to secure a PhD in thin film technology in 1987 before doing his post-doctoral studies at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics and Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste.
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Murali Sastry joined QAD Global Resource Center in 1997 as a software engineer where he served in such positions as Technical Consultant and Project Manager till his move to the National Chemical Laboratory as a Senior Scientist.
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Murali Sastry established an innovation centre there which worked on a number of projects based on nanotechnology.
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Murali Sastry has published his research by way of chapters contributed to books authored by others and over 360 peer-reviewed articles.
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Murali Sastry holds many US and Indian patents; Justia Patents has listed 24 of these.
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Murali Sastry has been associated with many governmental and semi-governmental science agencies such as Department of Biotechnology, Department of Science and Technology, Presidential Nanotechnology Committee and the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research as well as a number of science journals.
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Murali Sastry received the CSIR Young Scientist Award in 1993 and the Bronze Medal of the Chemical Research Society of India in 2002.
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Murali Sastry is a fellow of the Maharashtra Academy of Sciences and a recipient of the Materials Research Society of India Medal, which he received in 2003.
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Murali Sastry was listed among the world's most cited materials scientists by Elsevier Scopus in 2016.