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Suresh C. Pillai

Atlantic TU, Atlantic Technological University, University of Dublin Trinity College, Dublin Institute of Technology

ORCID iD 0000-0002-8901-9116
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Prof. Suresh C. Pillai completed PhD in the area of Nanotechnology from Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. He then performed his postdoctoral research at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), USA. Upon completion of this appointment, he returned to Trinity College Dublin as a Research Fellow before joining CREST-DIT as a Senior Scientist in April 2004. He has joined Atlantic Technological University in 2013 as a senior lecturer in nanotechnology and currently leads the Nanotechnology and Bio-Engineering Research Group. He is the recipient of the ‘Boyle-Higgins Award-2019’ from the Institute of Chemistry Ireland. He also has received the Linus Pauling Lecture Award 2020 from Mahatma Gandhi University. He is an elected fellow of the UK’s Royal Microscopical Society (FRMS) and the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (FIMMM). He also completed an executive MBA from Dublin City University, in 2009. Suresh was responsible for acquiring more than €9 million (total value over €34 million) in direct R&D funding. He has published several scientific articles in leading peer-reviewed journals has contributed to several book chapters, has presented at more than a hundred international conferences and has delivered over a hundred international invited talks. Suresh has also been invited to deliver keynote/plenary speeches at various international conferences. He is the lead inventor in two granted US patents (awarded in 2013 and 2015) one UK patent (awarded in 2015) and a number of international patents (pending). His research work was featured in various international media such as BBC World, BBC London, RTE-1 TV and in a number of national and international print media (Times UK, The Guardian, Irish Times etc). He is a recipient of the ‘Industrial Technologies Award 2011’ for licensing functional coatings to Irish companies. He was also the recipient of the ‘Hothouse Commercialisation Award 2009’ from the Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation and also the recipient of the ‘Enterprise Ireland Research Commercialization Award 2009’. He has also been nominated for the ‘One to Watch’ award 2009 for commercialising R&D work (Enterprise Ireland). One of the nanomaterials based environmental technologies developed by his research team was selected to demonstrate as one of the fifty ‘innovative technologies’ (selected after screening over 450 nominations from EU) at the first Innovation Convention organised by the European Commission on 5-6th December 2011. He is the national delegate and technical expert for ISO standardization committee and European standardization (CEN) Committee on photocatalytic materials. He has performed as an editor for the journal Environmental Science and Pollution Research (Springer-Nature) from 2017 to 2020. He is the editor of four published books (Springer-Nature, De Gruyter, IOP CRC-Taylor and Francis) and was the editor for a number of special issue journals. Currently, he is the co-editor-in-chief for the journal Results in Engineering (Elsevier) and an executive editor for the Chemical Engineering Journal (Elsevier). He is also the Editorial Board Member for the journal Applied Catalysis B (Elsevier). His full research publications list can be viewed at
http://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=4zkNK7sAAAAJ&view_op=list_works

Employment

  • Atlantic TU PI/ Senior Lecturer/ Head of Nanotechnology and Bio-Engineering group
    2013 - Present
  • Dublin Institute of Technology Senior Scientist/ R&D Manager
    2004 - 2013
  • University of Dublin Trinity College Research Fellow
    2003 - 2004
  • California Institute of Technology Post Doctoral Researcher
    2002 - 2003
  • Atlantic Technological University Director Nanotechnology and Bio-Engineering (Nano-Bio)

Education

  • University of Dublin Trinity College PhD
    1999 - 2002

Projects & Funding

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Publications (244)