Doraiswami Ramkrishna is the Harry Creighton Peffer Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering at

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since 1994.

Education and early career

Ramkrishna earned his B. (Chem) Eng. Degree from the University Department of Chemical Technology of

University of Mumbai The University of Mumbai is a collegiate, state-owned, public research university in Mumbai. The University of Mumbai is one of the largest universities in the world. , the university had 711 affiliated colleges. Ratan Tata is the appointed h ...

in 1960, and his PhD in Chemical Engineering from the

University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota, formally the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, (UMN Twin Cities, the U of M, or Minnesota) is a public land-grant research university in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States. ...

in 1965 with doctoral advisor Arnold Fredrickson. Following his PhD, he was an Assistant Professor for two years at Minnesota before returning to the

Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur The Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT Kanpur) Hindi: भारतीय प्रौद्योगिकी संस्थान कानपुर) is a public institute of technology located in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India. It was ...

where he served on the faculty for nearly seven years. He returned to the United States in 1974 as a Visiting Associate Professor in 1974, thereafter as a visiting professor at Minnesota in 1975 before joining

as a Professor of Chemical Engineering in 1976.

Research

Professor Ramkrishna's research interests lie in the application of mathematics to chemical and biochemical reaction engineering. He has published nearly 280 papers and three books, one entitled Linear Operator Methods in Chemical Engineering (Prentice-Hall) coauthored with Neal Amundson, another on Population Balances. Theory and Applications to Particulate Systems in Engineering and Science (Academic Press), and the third, Cybernetic Modeling for Bioreaction Engineering, Cambridge University Press. He has directed approximately 45 doctoral students and numerous post-doctoral associates, and placed several students in academia.

Awards and professorships

Ramkrishna has held a number of Distinguished Visiting Professorships in various universities such as

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, Bangalore (1982: University Grants Commission Visiting Professor), Bombay University (1983: G. P. Kane Visiting Professor, 1994: Dow-Sharma Distinguished Fellow, 2010: M.M. Sharma Distinguished Professor), University of Minnesota (1988: George T. Piercy Distinguished Professor), University of Notre Dame (1994: Melchor Visiting Professor). In 2009, Professor Ramkrishna was elected a member of the

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. His election citation stated: He won the AIChE

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Award in 1987, the Bombay University Distinguished Alumnus (UDCT Diamond) Award in 1994, was elected Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering in 1996, the AIChE Wilhelm Award in 1998, the Senior Humboldt Prize in 2001, the AIChE Thomas Baron Award in 2004, and the AiChE William H. Walker Award in 2021, awarded Honorary Doctor of Science degree from the

in 2004, and the Purdue Research Excellence Award in 2005.

References

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