Dr. Vaddiraju’s Journey
It all started back then…
Doctoral (Class of ‘06)
At the University of Louisville, KY, Dr. Vaddiraju received his Ph.D. on:
The synthesis and applications of refractory metal and refractory metal oxide nanowires,
and the in-situ synthesis of semiconductor-metal junctioned nanowires.
The thesis work is done partly done in NASA Ames Research Center
To infinity and beyond…
Dr. Sreeram Vaddiraju then pursued his postdoc in Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston
His key contributions during this period include:
Developing vapor phase methods for synthesizing transition metal and metal oxide nanowires.
Innovating self-catalytic growth methods for compound semiconductor nanowires.
Fabricating infrared lasers from sub-micron gallium antimonide nanowires.
Creating novel inorganic-organic hybrid LEDs.
Later he joined Texas A&M University, College Station as an Assistant Professor in the Fall of 2009 and then went on to become an Associate Professor from 2015. He is currently leading a group of young minds at Texas A&M University focussing on various research areas solving some of the most complex problems in Science.
Notable Achievements
Mass production and large-scale assembly of nanowires into energy devices.
Achieving high thermoelectric figure-of-merit values in nanowire bulk pellets.
Rapid and inexpensive water disinfection using nanowire systems.
Pioneering real-time detection of microbiologically-influenced corrosion (MIC) and creating multifunctional nanowire-based composites.
