Rangasamy V JayakumarProfessor, Centre for Nano-Sciences and Molecular Medicine, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham University, Kerela, India
Prof. Jayakumar Rangasamy's research laboratory is mainly interested in the development of biopolymeric nanofibers, nanogels, nanoparicles, nanocomposite scaffolds and injectable hydrogels for Drug Delivery, Hemostasis, Infectious Diseases, Tissue Engineering, Regenerative Medicine and Wound Healing applications. He received his Ph.D. in Polymer Chemistry from Anna University, Chennai, India (2002). He was awarded the University Postdoctoral Fellowship from Chonbuk National University (2002-2003), South Korea. In Portugal, he was awarded FCT Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Government of Portugal (2003-2005). In addition, he was also awarded the prestigious JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship (2005-2007) from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Japan. He has published 265 articles in SCI Journals, edited 7 books, 12 book chapters and 12 patents to his credit. He is also reviewer and editorial board member of many international journals. His publications have been cited more than 23000 times with h-index-80. He has received the "Best Paper Award" from Journal of Materials Science Materials in Medicine (Springer) and IET Nanobiotechnology Journal. He received "Faculty Researcher Award-2016" from Indian Chitin and Chitosan Society and "MRSI Medal-2017" from Materials Research Society of India (MRSI). He also received "India Research Excellence-Citation Awards 2017 (Health & Medical Science area)" from Clarivate Analytics, Web of Science. He was selected as a "World Top 2% Scientists from India" in "Polymers" field by Stanford University, USA in the year of 2020 & 2021. He recently received "Chancellor's Research Excellence Award-2021" from Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham (University), India. He has also been listed in the "Top 10 Material Science Researchers from India". Read More Read Less