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.
