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Ajayan Vinu
Professor Vinu in 2016 Vinu in 2016
Born	(1976-05-20) 20 May 1976
Alma mater	Anna University Kaiserslautern University of Technology Manonmaniam Sundaranar University
Known for	Mesoporous carbon nitride
Scientific career
Fields	Materials science and Nanotechnology
Institutions	University of South Australia

Ajayan Vinu is a Professor of Nanomaterials, at the Future Industries Institute,University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes, Australia since 2015 . Previously he was a full Professor and Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellow at the University of Queensland (UQ), Brisbane, Australia during September 2011-2015. Before moving to Australia, he had been working as a senior researcher at the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Tsukuba, Japan since 2006 after he had successfully completed two years of the International Young Scientist (ICYS) fellowship at the same institute and a few years of research at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern (TUK) or Kaiserslautern University of Technology, Germany. He is honoured with Adjunct Professor position of top universities around the world including EWHA University (South Korea), Kyungpook National University (South Korea), Hokkaido University (Japan), Mangalore University (India), Fudan University (China), Jilin University (China), Anna University (India), etc. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and Editor in chief of Advanced Porous Materials, an Australian Editor of the Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology and an Editor of Science of Advanced Materials. During his tenure in NIMS, he was appointed as the NIMS Ambassador to India which helped him to establish the NIMS-India Materials Research Center at the Indian Institute of Chemical Technology and he was appointed as the Research Director for this Center. He is one of the world renowned scientists in the field of nanoporous materials and has made a tremendous contribution on nanoporous materials and their applications in sensing, energy storage, fuel cells, adsorption and separation, and catalysis.

Early life and education

Ajayan Vinu was born in a small village located at the extreme South of India called Arumanai in Kanyakumari district in Tamil Nadu State, India. His early schooling was in the same village at the government owned school. Later he had joined Manonmaniam Sundaranar University (MSU) in Tirunelveli district headquarters, India to obtain Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in chemistry (1993-1998). Upon completion of his Master’s Degree in Chemistry with a First Class, he registered for Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) at Anna University, Chennai, India. Soon after his registration, he was offered a fellowship from the Technical University Kaiserslautern or Kaiserslautern University of Technology, Germany to continue his research through the bilateral programme and moved there in 2001 to work under the supervision of Prof. Martin Hartmann. He successfully earned his PhD degree in the area of ‘pore-size engineering of mesoporous materials” in 2003. However, he followed the philosophy of his PhD advisor, which is ‘the success is not far away’ if one can conglomerate brilliance, knowledge and innovation with hard work. This philosophy changed his career dramatically to the international level. He comes from a very humble background and his success and professional achievements are attributed to intense hard work, self-determination and of course blessings of his parents and Lord Almighty.

Research Career

Ajayan Vinu started his professional career in 2003 as a post-doctoral fellow (PDF) at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern (TUK)or Kaiserslautern University of Technology, Germany and in 2004 he moved to the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan as an International Young Scientist fellow. Based on his research accomplishments, he quickly elevated to many positions at NIMS and served in different capacities. In 2006, he was promoted as a permanent senior researcher and then he was appointed as Research Director in 2009 for NIMS-India Materials Research Centre, Japan. In September 2011, he moved to UQ, Australia on an ARC future fellowship through an open competition. At the age of 34, he earned the title of a Full Professor, which is a remarkable accomplishment in his career and he is one of the most successful researchers as evidenced by his more than 300 papers in high impact factor journals with ca. 12,000 citations and an H-index of 58 (google scholar). His research has been published in the top journals like Angew. Chemie, Nano Letters, J. Am. Chem. Soc., Adv. Mater, Adv. Funct., Mater. Chem., Eur. J., Chem. Mater., etc. with an average of 750 citations per year. He has been awarded more than 20 national and international patents.

Ajayan Vinu has travelled around 35 countries and presented over 200 talks/lectures including 24 plenary and 25 keynote lectures at prime international conferences as well as ca. 155 invited talks. He has established a strong network of collaborators from the major universities and research institutes in India, China, Germany, United States, Japan, Korea, Saudi Arabia and Qatar. He served as a visiting faculty at a number of universities in Korea, Saudi Arabia, Japan and India. Moreover, Ajayan Vinu has been instrumental in the organization of a large number of national and international conferences including ICEAN 2012 in Brisbane, workshops and symposium covering the entire length and breadth of nanotechnology and its applications. One of the active collaborations he has is with Professors Katsuhiko Ariga and Toshiyuki Mori from NIMS, Japan, mainly on the development of novel porous nanostructures for the fuel cells and sensing.

Personal life

Ajayan Vinu is married to Siji Dhasan and has two sons (Stevin Vinu and Nivets Vinu) aged 10 and 6 years.

Awards and Honors

Ajayan Vinu is a recipient of a several highly prestigious international and national awards. Some of the prominent ones are :

• Scopus Young Researcher Award 2014 for physical sciences by ELSEVIER
• Senior JSPS Invitation Fellowship Award for the year 2014 by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
• Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC)
• Foreign Fellow of Maharashtra Academy of Science, India (FFMAS)
• IUMRS–MRS Singapore Young Researcher Award 2014 Finalist
• Wilhelm Friedrich Bessel Award for the year 2010 by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
• Australian Future Fellowship (FF) Award (Top Level) for the year 2010 by the Australian Research Council (The youngest person who received the top level FF from Australia in the field of Nanomaterials)
• Indian Society of Chemists and Biologists Award for Excellence, 2010.
• Catalysis Society of India Award for the year 2010 by the Catalysis Society of India.
• Chemical Society of Japan Award for Young Chemists for the year 2008 by the Chemical Society of Japan (The first Indian and the first foreigner who received this award from CSJ, Japan)
• Khwarizmi International Award Iranian Top Science Prize for the year 2008 for the applied research in nanotechnology, “Laureate of KIA” by UNESCO, UNHO, IROST and WIPO.
• Asian Excellent Young Researcher Lectureship Award, 2008, by the President of the Chemical Society of Japan (Prof. Nakanishi, President of CSJ, Japan)
• ICYS Fellowship award, which is the world’s most prestigious fellowship by the National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Japan (2004-2006)
• Best paper award from STAM journal for the year 2010.
• Junior Research Fellowship (JRF, Department of Atomic Energy, India) to pursue Doctoral studies at Anna University, India.