PROFESSOR VELAYUTHAM MURUGESAN

Anna University, Chennai - 600 025, India

                Professor V. Murugesan graduated (B.Sc.) with first class and distinction from St.Joseph’s College, Tiruchirapalli and obtained his Master degree in Chemistry from Loyola College affiliated to University of Madras. He obtained his pre-doctoral degree (M.Phil.) from University of Madras and Ph.D. degree from Anna University. Prof. Murugesan also enjoyed one year post-doctoral fellow at the University of Pittsburgh, USA. He worked in various capacities before elevated as a full Professor in the year 1996. He served as Professor and Head, Department of Chemistry, Anna University for seven years. During his tenure as Head, he mobilized funds from different agencies to equip the department with state-of-the-art facilities for research, consultancy and testing. The department has acquired many sophisticated instruments facilities during his headship. The tenure of Prof. Murugesan as Chairman, Faculty of Science and Humanities has seen changes in the revision of syllabi and curriculum for Under-Graduate and Post-Graduate studies.
Professor Murugesan has 37 years of teaching experience and more than 25 years of research experience. His major research interest includes semiconductor photocatalytic mesoporous and nanostructured materials for pollution abatement, microporous and mesoporous catalytic materials for fine chemical synthesis and physical organic chemistry. Prof. Murugesan has supervised many Masters and M.Phil. theses in addition to  28 Ph.D. theses under his Supervision. He is also a committed and dedicated teacher. Prof. Murugesan has published more than 200 research articles in SCI journals and conference proceedings. He has very good citation index for his publications and his present h-index is 26.
He has already established excellent research links with Universities and Institutes within India and also established International research collaboration in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Russia, Germany, Itay, etc. His International standing as a Scientist is evidenced by his publication record and extensive collaborations with overseas scientists. Prof. Murugesan has travelled widely across the globe in connection with International Conferences as visiting Scientist and under exchange programmes. He has carved a niche for himself as an International Scientist. He has organized National and International Conferences.
Prof. Murugesan is serving as editorial member of International Journals and reviewer of prestigious international SCI journals. He has been awarded STA and JSPS fellowships of Japan. He is a member in many Professional bodies both within the country and abroad. He has been serving as a member in academic bodies of many Universities in the Country. Presently, Prof. Murugesan, as Director Centre for Research, has brought in sea changes in the Centre Administration in order to benefit the research scholars and Supervisor of Anna University.

Professor Velayutham Murugesan was appointed to the board of the Pacific Basin Consortium in 2009.

Professor Velayutham Murugesan M.Sc., M.Phil., Ph.D
Professor of Chemistry and Director, Centre for Research
Anna University, Chennai-600 025, India