Mysuru :

Dr. Siddaramaiah, Professor, Department of Polymer Science and Technology, SJCE, Mysuru, was conferred with the prestigious 6th National Award for Technology Innovation 2015-16, for Innovation in Polymeric Products on Hybrid Nanocomposite for UV sensing applications.

He received the award from Ananth Kumar, Union Minister for Chemicals and Fertilizers at New Delhi recently.

Prof. Siddaramaiah is an ardent researcher and has authored more than 280 research articles published in reputed referred journals, more than 220 conference papers, six book chapters, two review articles, one book, one monograph and is a co-inventor of 2 Indian patents. Twenty students have successfully completed their Ph.D. under his supervision and he has supervised 9 M.Sc (Engg) by research/M.Phil students.

He has worked as a Post Doctoral Research Fellow under Brain Korea (BK-21) Fellowship for a period of one year (2007-08), at Chonbuk National University, South Korea. He has been awarded UNESCO-TWAS visiting Fellowship two times to work at University of Federal, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.

He is a recipient of “Young Scientist Award-1997” in ‘Chemical Science’ (1997) awarded by KAAS, Bangalore and “Sir C.V. Raman Young Scientist Award- 1999” in ‘Chemical Technology’ by KSCST, Government of Karnataka, Bangalore (2002). He is the recipient of ‘PROJECT OF THE YEAR’ award twice and “Certificate of Commendation”, award from KSCST, Bangalore. He and his research team received “Best Paper Award” more than five times.  Recently he received, Silver Trophy for Plasticon Award-2012 in the category of Best Research sponsored by Gharda Chemicals Ltd., by Plastindia Foundation, New Delhi.

source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> General News / Wednesday – February 03rd, 2016