Venkat Ganesan
Associate Professor
Chemical Engineering
Frank A. Liddell Jr. Centennial Fellowship in Chemical Engineering
Phone: (512) 471-4856
e-mail: venkat@che.utexas.edu
Dr. Venkat Ganesan earned his Ph. D in chemical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California at Santa Barbara (1999-2001) before joining The University of Texas at Austin faculty in 2001. Ganesan won the National Science Foundation’s CAREER award and an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship in 2004 to fund research on the structure and properties of advanced polymers that are used in plastics for industrial applications, as well as everyday objects such as CDs and batteries.
Ganesan is developing a theoretical and computationally-based program to understand the fundamental mechanisms underlying the design of advanced materials. When designing advanced materials, chemical engineers, chemists and materials scientists combine the molecular components that result in materials for specialized applications. The broad goal of Ganesan’s research is to understand the relationships between the molecular structure and the macroscopic properties of such materials. The program that Ganesan is developing is meant to complement the research of experimentalists by providing simple but quantitative guidelines to rationally design and synthesize advanced materials.
Research Interests:
- Self-assembly in polymer-particle mixtures
- Simulations of dynamics of self-assembled materials
- Theory and simulation of rod-coil and crystallizable polymers
- Simulations of structure and properties of materials for fuel cell and photovoltaic applications
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