Dr. Vaddiraju’s Journey

Initial Education

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

Further Studies & Career

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
Fall 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.

Collaborations & Sponsorships