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Prof. Piran R. Kidambi

Assistant Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Vanderbilt University

Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Vanderbilt University 

 

Post-doctoral research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, U.S.A.

Ph.D., University of Cambridge, U.K.

M.S., Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland

B.Tech., National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, India 

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Awards and honors:

2024 - 2025 Harrington Faculty Fellowship, University of Texas at Austin 

2024    Rising Star of Mechanical Engineering, American Society of Mechanical

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2024    Invited attendee, 2024 China-America Frontiers of Engineering 

               Symposium, National Academy of Engineering (NAE) 

2024    Elected as Chair of the User Executive Committee, Center for Nanophase

               Materials Sciences at Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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2023    AIChE, Nanoscale Science and Engineering (NSEF) Young Investigator Award

2023    Winner - Institute of Physics, Materials Research Express, Emerging

               Investigators in Materials Science 2021-2022

2023    Royal Society of Chemistry Materials Advances - Early Stage Investigator

              Honorees of the ACS  Polymeric Materials: Science & Engineering Division

2023    Elected as Vice Chair of the User Executive Committee, Center for Nanophase

               Materials Sciences at Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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2022    DOE Early Career Award

2022    Emerging Investigators - Journal of Materials Chemistry A

2022    ACS PMSE Young Investigator Awardee 

2022    Chair-elect Nashville section of ACS

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2021-2022 Junior Faculty Teaching Fellowship, Vanderbilt University

2021      ChBE Award for Excellence in Teaching, Vanderbilt University

2021      Member Early Career Editorial Board, Chemical Engineering Journal Advances

 

2020     Elected to The User Executive Committee, Center for Nanophase Materials 

                Sciences at Oak Ridge National Laboratory

2020     Future Application Award, NanoScientific Symposium 

2020     ECS Toyota Young Investigator Fellowship

2020     NSF CAREER Award

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2019      Member, Graphene Academic Council, National Graphene Association, USA

2019      Hamilton Company Syringe Grant Program Award

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2018      ACS PRF Doctoral New Investigator Award                

2018      ORAU Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award

 

2014 - 2015    Lindemann Trust Fellowship, UK

2014      Elizabeth Mabel Burnett prize, Hughes Hall College, University of Cambridge

2014      1st prize in ABTA 2014 Doctoral Research Award, Engineering Sciences

 

2010 - 2014    Cambridge Commonwealth Trust Award                  

2008 - 2009  Willi Studer prize,  MAVT, ETH Zurich  

2005     1st prize Poster presentation, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

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Post-doctoral associates

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Dr. Peifu Cheng

Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department, Vanderbilt University​

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Awards and Honors

Outstanding Performance by a Post-Doctoral Scholar Award, ChBE, VU ​2021.

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Dr. Pavan Chaturvedi

Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department, Vanderbilt University​

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Awards and Honors

Outstanding Performance by a Post-Doctoral Scholar Award, ChBE, VU ​2022.

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Dr. Jumi Deka

Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department, Vanderbilt University

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Graduate Students

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Andrew Naclerio

Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Program, Vanderbilt University

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2020, Best Research paper in ChBE by a 2nd year graduate student

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Nicole Moehring

Interdisciplinary Material Science Program, Vanderbilt University

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2023 Prof. Dibakar Bhattacharyya Graduate Student Research Award, Membrane Area, AIChE Separations Division

2023 Graduate Student Award in the Inorganic Materials Area of AIChE

2023 Best Graduate Student Publication in VINSE, NanoDay

2023 DOE SCGSR fellowship

2023 NAMS Student Fellowship

2022 NAMS Student Fellowship honorable mention

2021 Best Student presentation at the CNMS User meeting/conference

Vanderbilt University Graduate fellowship 

NSF GRFP honorable mention 

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Jamie Hemstock 

Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Program, Vanderbilt University

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Bharat

Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Program, Vanderbilt University

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Aman Tamboli

Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Program, Vanderbilt University

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Undergraduate Students

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Sarah Driscoll

Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Program, Vanderbilt University

 

2nd place at the 2023 IGNITE Off, U.S. DOE, Office of Science

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Thomas Knight

Chemistry Program, Vanderbilt University

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Alumni

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Masters students

Tristan Gilbert, 2020, moved to U.C. Berkeley as a graduate student

Shaswat Rajput,  2021, Data Science Institute Masters program, Capstone research project 

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Interdisciplinary Material Science (IMS) Program/ChBE rotation students

Bharat Bharat, ChBE, Spring 2024 

Courtney Ragle, IMS, Spring 2023

Rahul Shah, IMS, Fall 2022, Best poster (1st place) award for 1st year IMS student at VINSE NanoDay 2022.

Jeremy Espano, IMS, Fall 2019-Spring 2020

Nicole Moehring, IMS, Fall 2018-Fall 2019

Nimrod Korda, ChBE, Fall 2019 - Spring 2022

Rabeb Layouni, ChBE, Spring 2017

Liudmyla Prozorovska, IMS, Fall 2017

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Undergraduate students

Sarah Driscoll, Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Thomas Knight Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Chemistry

Yan Xu, Spring 2021, Computer Science and Engineering

Ali Kilic, Fall 2020,  Mechanical Engineering

Annabelle Li, Fall 2019, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering 

Nafis Ahmed, Fall 2019, Computer Science and Engineering 

Dahsong Lee, Fall 2019, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering 

Melanie Marszal, Fall 2019 - , Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Sophia Pannullo, Spring 2019, Biomedical Engineering

James Rogers, Fall 2019-, Computer Science and Engineering
Mattigan Kelly, Summer 2019, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Andrew Harkaway , Summer 2019, Mechanical Engineering, moved to Iowa State as a graduate student.

Masahiro Kato, Fall 2018 and Spring 2019, Mechanical Engineering

Michael Barkan, Fall 2018, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering 

Masturina Sukri, Spring and Fall 2018, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering 

Andrew Naclerio, Spring 2018, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering 

 

Summer research students

Nika Vardoshvili, Vanderbilt ChBE rising sophomore, SyBBURE program, Summer 2024

Brennan Fingler, Rochester Institute of Technology ChBE rising senior, Summer 2024

Lillie Cate Allen, Summer 2024, REHSS program

Chelsea Clark, Summer 2023, REHSS program - Best poster award

Mohamed Sankari, Summer 2022, REHSS program - Best poster award

Christina Trexler, Summer 2019, VINSE-NSF REU program, University of Arkansas - Best poster award

Emma Fuller, Summer 2019, REHSS program 

Christine Phanbandith, Summer 2019, Aspirnaut program, Tennessee Technological University

Madanna Vue, Summer 2019, Aspirnaut program

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Visiting Researchers

Grzegorz Romaniak, Lodz University of Technology, Poland – January – February 2023.

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