Thursday 21 May 2020

INDIAN ORIGIN SCIENTIST AWARDED FINLAND UNIVERSITY’S HIGHEST SCIENCE HONOUR




INDIAN ORIGIN SCIENTIST  AWARDED  FINLAND UNIVERSITY’S HIGHEST SCIENCE HONOUR




For her outstanding research in the area of materials chemistry as applied to the field of Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) and Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD), Indian Origin Scientist, Professor Anjana Devi, Inorganic Materials Chemistry, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, is one of the recipients of an Honorary Doctorate in Technology for 2020, from Finland’s Aalto University, according to the University news.

An honorary doctorate is the highest honor the University can award. Professor Anjana Devi is the youngest recipient from amongst this year’s four other awardees.




PROFESSOR Dr. ANJANA DEVI – RUHR UNIVERSITY

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PROFESSOR ANJANA DEVI

In 2018, Prof Anjana Devi and her students Nils Boysen from the Ruhr University, Bochum in collaboration with the group of Professor Thomas Riedl from the Chair of Electronic Devices, University of Wuppertal, reported a new fabrication process for transparent ultra-thin silver films. 






Second from Left: Nils Boysen with Prof Anjana Devi

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 They said, “This constitutes a first step towards the production of novel transparent electrodes for highly efficient solar cells and lights”. This is one example of the brilliant research work from GROUP DEVI, Professor Anjana Devi’s laboratory at the Inorganic Chemistry Division, Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany.

CAREER:

Anjana Devi graduated with an M.Sc from Mangalore University and a PhD from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore and then went on to do a Post-Doctoral Fellowship awarded by the Alexander von Humboldt (AvH) Foundation in 1998.  She began her career under Prof Roland A Fischer, Inorganic Materials Chemistry Division, Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany, where she is currently Professor and Group Leader.




PROF ANJANA DEVI – INORGANIC MATERIALS CHEMISTRY – RUHR UNIVERSITY

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In a glittering career of two decades and more at the Inorganic Materials Chemistry Department, Ruhr University, Prof Anjana Devi has carried out pioneering work in research areas encompassing: Precursor development – Metal organic Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD) as a precursor for deposition of thin films using Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) and Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD) techniques. The main focus of her research is on the transformation of metalorganic precursors into nanostructured thin films of various functional materials for device manufacturing and eventual applications as - photo anodes; transparent electrodes, thin film transistors (TFTs) and transparent conducting thin films for solar cell applications, sensors, optoelectronics, etc.







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SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS ON THE COVER PAGES OF PRESTIGIOUS INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS


Prof Anjana Devi and her group collaborate with scientists from various disciplines, be they, Physicists, Chemists or Engineers and their goal is to develop nanostructured materials for different applications ranging from – Microelectronics, Sensors, Dielectrics, barrier coatings, catalysis and much more.

Publishing her research work in international high impact scientific journals, Prof Anjana Devi has notched up over 190 papers and counting.

She has graduated in all, Twenty Two (22) B.Sc Students, Thirty Three (33) M.Sc Students and Seventeen (18) Ph.D students in her career so far.

Besides, the Best invention Prize – 2005, she received from her University, she is the recipient of numerous other awards and has been on the editorial board of several prestigious scientific journals. Prof Anjana is on the international advisory board of the ALD and CVD community and has led several National and International research projects.

On being conferred the Honorary Doctorate in Technology -2020 by the prestigious Aalto University, Finland, Prof Anjana Devi in all humility says, “Hard work always pays off….”. That is probably her mantra for success.



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Write Up by SHARATH AHUJA

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