Dr Suresh Pillai
Senior Research Manager
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Dr. Pillai is a Senior R&D Manager in CREST and is responsible for managing the
semiconductor nanotechnology group. His research interests are in the areas of
Nanotechnology, Semiconductors, Ceramics for Functional Applications,
Photocatalysis and Materials for Electronic Applications. He has expertise in
the design and synthesis of nano-materials for industrial applications. Dr. Suresh C. Pillai obtained his PhD in the area of Materials
Science/Nanotechnology from Trinity
College, The University of Dublin, Ireland and then performed a postdoctoral
research at the Department of Materials Science,
California Institute of Technology
(Caltech), Pasadena, California-91125, USA. Upon completion of this appointment
he returned to Trinity College, Dublin as a Research Fellow before joining CREST
as a senior scientist in April 2004. Dr. Pillai is an elected fellow of the UK’s
Royal Microscopical Society (FRMS)
and the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (FIMMM). He has also completed an executive MBA from Dublin City
University, in 2009. Dr. Pillai was responsible for acquiring more than €1.5 million direct R&D funding (2004- to date) for CREST. He has published over thirty scientific articles in leading peer reviewed journals (h-index 15; g-index 25; average citation per article is 25), has contributed three book chapters, has presented in more than twenty international conferences and has delivered over ten national/international invited talks. |
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He is a technical referee for more than thirty five science and technology journals and worked as technical evaluator (R&D proposals) for various national and international funding agencies (FP6–STREP, European Commission, Brussels- January 2006; Enterprise Ireland-July 2005, 2009; Department of Energy (DOE), USA November 2008; National Institute for Health Research Central Commissioning Facility (NIHR-CCF), UK December 2008 and IUPAC Polymer Call, June 2010; National Research Foundation (NRF), Singapore, 2010. Dr. Pillai was the national delegate and management committee member of COST action 540 (supported by EU Commission). He is also the national technical expert for ISO standardization committee of ceramic materials and photocatalysis. Dr. Pillai has supervised a number of PhD students, post-doctoral researchers and research scientists. He was also one of the three co-founders of CREST start-up company Radical Coatings. His research work was featured in the ‘the investigators’ programme in Ireland’s national TV RTE-1. Dr Pillai is a Recipient of the ‘Industrial Technologies Award 2011’ for
licensing functional coatings on steel, wood and glass to Irish companies
(22nd of November, 2011, Enterprise Ireland, East Point Business Park,
Dublin). Dr. Pillai was also the recipient of the ‘Hothouse
Commercialisation Award 2009’ from the Minister of Science, Technology and
Innovation (Ireland), Conor Leinihan, T.D (3rd November 2009; Croke Park
Convention Centre, Dublin) and also the recipient of the ‘Enterprise Ireland
Research Commercialization National Award 2009’ (12th November 2009). He has
also been nominated for the ‘One to Watch’ award 2009 for commercialising
R&D work (Enterprise Ireland). One of the nanomaterials based technologies
developed by his R&D team was selected to demonstrate as one of the fifty
‘innovative technologies’ (selected after screening over 450 nominations) at
the first Innovation Convention organised by the European Commission on
5-6th December 2011.
http://ec.europa.eu/research/innovation-union/ic2011/index_en.cfm. Key Research projects:US-Ireland R&D Collaborative Research: Degradation Mechanism of Cyanotoxins Using Novel Visible Light-Activated Titania (TiO2) Photocatalysts. October 2010-Sept 2013. Co funded by SFI, NSF (USA) and InvestNI. FP7-NMP-CSA with Queens University Belfast, Millennium chemicals, Vysoka skola chemickotechnologicka, Czek republic, Unilever U.K. Central Resources Limited, VitrA Ireland Ltd and Aalborg Universitet Denmark; January 2013 to June 2014. FP7-REGBIS- Regenerative biofilm sensors. Duration 2009 to 2012. FP7-MATERA- proposal with Trinity College Dublin, VTT Finland and Millidyne Finland. February 2009-January 2012 FP7-MATERA Nanovigil- Visible Light Active Semiconductor Nanoparticles for Hygiene Applications. FP6-MNT-ERANET- proposal with VTT Finland, Millidyne Finland. High Temperature Stable Anatase Titania Photocatalysts for Ceramic Industries- Vitra- Jan 2010-Dec 2010. Funded by Enterprise Ireland | |
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