Advanced Energy Materials Laboratory

   Prof. Sangaraju Shanmugam obtained his doctorate in 2004 from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India in the field of heterogeneous catalysis. Thereafter, in 2005, he joined the Department of Chemistry, Bar-Ilan University, Israel as a Postdoctoral Fellow, where he investigated “Sonoelectrochemical Synthesis of metal nanoparticles”. In late 2007, he joined as a JSPS postdoctoral fellow at Waseda University and continued his research in "Catalysis for energy applications".

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  In 2011, he was appointed as an Assistant Professor at DGIST and promoted to tenured full Professor in 2019. Prof. Shanmugam currently has 138 refereed publications to his credit, 5 Indian Patents, and filed 12 Korean patents. His technical contributions have been recognized by many awards including JSPS Fellow from Japan, Samuel and Helene Soref Young Scientist from Bar-Ilan University, Israel, and Prof. Langmuir Prize for the Best Thesis, IIT Madras.  

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  Shanmugam’s current research interests focus on the development of cost-effective, durable electrode materials for polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells. His areas of research encompass synthesis and characterization of nanomaterials and their applications towards energy conversion and storage, biosensors and biomedical applications.