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RV Mangalaraja

Also known as: Ramalinga Managalaraja, Mangalaraja Ramalinga V, Ramalinga Viswanathan, M Ramalinga

Arturo Prat University, Adolfo Ibáñez University, Anna University, Chennai, University of Concepción

Research areas: Energy · Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment · Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques · TiO2 Photocatalysis and Solar Cells · Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion

ORCID iD 0000-0003-1016-9830
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Mangalaraja Ramalinga Viswanathan is the Full Professor in the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Universidad Arturo Prat, Iquique, Chile. Previously, he served as the Full Professor Faculty of Engineering and Sciences, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Santiago and in the Department of Materials Engineering, University of Concepción at Concepción, Chile. He has been worked as the Director of International Relations at the University of Concepción for the period of two years from 2018 to 2019. He served as the Director of the Department of Materials Engineering for the period of six years from 2010 to 2016. He also served as the President of the Chilean Metallurgy and Materials Society (SOCHIMM) for the period of 2015-2017. Life-Member of Indian Ceramic Society (ICS) and Fellow of Indian Institute of Ceramics (IIC). Also, member of The Mineral, Metals and Materials Society (TMS) and Singapore Materials Research Society (MRS-S); and American (ACerS) and Pan American Materials and Pan American Ceramic Societies, and also the Japanese (CerSJ) Ceramic Society (2010-2012).
Mangalaraja earned his B.Sc. degree in Physics from Madurai Kamaraj University, and, received his M.Sc. degree in Materials Science and Engineering, M.Tech. in Ceramic Technology and Ph.D. in Materials Technology from Anna University-Chennai, India. After his Ph.D., he worked as a research scientist/postdoctoral researcher at AIST-Nagoya, Japan, Lulea University of Technology-Lulea, Sweden and Anna University-Chennai, India. His primary research interests are focused in the areas of nanotechnology-driven advanced materials (functional materials for energy and environmental applications) and micro-nano- structure-property relationship of functional and structural ceramics and metallic composite materials. He authored/coauthored over 260 research articles in the refereed international scientific indexing (ISI) journal publications, 27 book chapters, three patents, one of the Editors in two Books, and more than 180 research presentations in several International Conferences/Seminars. For his credits, he has been ranked as second position by the Ministry of Science and Technology-Chile in the national level Engineering and Technology stream. Further, he has participated as Director, Responsible/Principal Investigator and Co- Investigator of 40 research projects funded by ANID (National Agency for Research and Development, CHILE), Government of Chile. He had been acted as a member in the expert committee of FONDECYT-ANID for two times (five years) in the area of Materials Science and Engineering, and now extending his expertise as an evaluator/ reviewer of various national/international project proposals and articles in the area of Materials Science and Engineering/Technology.

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