Professor Bala Vaidhyanathan

Bala (also known as Vaidhy) attained a B.Sc in Physics from Bharathiar University and an M.Sc in Materials Science from PSG College of Technology and a Ph.D in Solid State & Structural Chemistry from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. He spent three years Post Doctoral Fellowship at the Materials Research Laboratory of the Pennsylvania State University, USA and then joined Loughborough University, UK as a Senior Research Associate. He worked as a Lead-Scientist in General Electric Corporation – Global Research (GE-GRC) between 2004-06 before joining the Department of Materials as a Lecturer in September 2006.

Outline of main research interests:
– Functional Ceramics, Nanocrystalline materials, Electroceramics, Microwave processing, Microwave-materials interactions, Flash Sintering, Microwave Cold Sintering
– Glasses, Functional coatings, SOFCs
– Materials for batteries and Hydrogen generation
– Ceramics for bio-medical applications
– Powder synthesis, Sol-gel methods
– Additive manufacturing of ceramics
– Smart materials for sensing, security and sports