Professor Suprakas Sinha Ray was born in 1973 in India and completed his PhD studies at the University of Calcutta in 2001, and then postdoctoral fellow at Toyota Technological Institute and Laval University studying the structure-property relationship in nanoclay-containing polymer nanocomposites. He started working on fundamental understanding to real applications of polymer-based nanostructured materials when he joined the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) as a group leader. These studies advanced and broadened when he appointed as a chief researcher (level III, highest SET position in Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)) and director of the DSI-CSIR Nanotechnology Innovation Centre and growing to the present time with scientists, engineers, technologists, postdoctoral fellows, students, collaborators and industrial partners worldwide. Currently, more than 110 researchers, engineers and technologists are working at the Centre.
He is one of the most active and highly cited authors, in the field of polymer nanocomposite materials and his work has been featured on various international journal cover pages on 17 different occasions. Recently, he has been rated as a Top 1% of most impactful and influential scientists (Chemistry, Materials Science and 22 Science disciplines) by Thomson Reuters Essential Science Indicators. In 2011, he also has been rated as a Top 50 high impact chemist in the world (Feb. 2011, Thomson Reuter, probably youngest researcher in this list, 1.2 mil Chemists). So far he has given more than 45 plenary/keynote/invited presentations in various international conferences and organized/co-organized a number of international conferences. Prof Ray is the author of 4 books, co-author of 5 edited books, 30 book chapters on various aspects of polymer-based nano-structured materials & their applications, and author and co-author of 450 articles in high-impact international journals, 14 articles in peer-review international conference proceedings; 30 articles in national and international conference proceedings. He also has 7 patents (registered or filled) and 10 new demonstrated technologies (commercialised) shared with colleagues, collaborators and industrial partners. So far, his team commercialised 19 different products. So far, he has produced 35 PhD and 21 Master students under his direct supervision.
His honours and awards include Prestigious 2016 National Science and Technology Award (NSTF); Prestigious 2014 CSIR-wide Leadership award; Prestigious 2014 CSIR Human Capital development award; Prestigious 2013 Morand Lambla Awardee, International Polymer Processing Society, United States; Distinguish Visiting Professor, King Abdulaziz University, Kingdom of Saudi Arab (2012); Extraordinary Professor, University of Pretoria, South Africa (2013); Visiting Professor, University of Johannesburg, South Africa (2012); Global Star Award 2011 from the Engineering ceramic division, the American Ceramic Society; CSIR MSM Prestigious Established Researcher Award (2010); Adjacent Professor, University of the Free State (UFS), South Africa (2009); Prestigious CSIR President’s Award (2008); CSIR MSM Director’s award (2008); JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Japanese Government (2002). He is also holding National Research Foundation (NRF) B-rating. Currently, he is serving as an Associate Editor/Editorial Board member of the RSC Advances (Associate Editor), International Journal of Plastic Films and Sheeting, ACS Omega, and Macromolecular Materials and Engineering.
