Ka Suresh

Biography

Kattera Appanna Suresh obtained his B.Sc. (1967) and M.Sc. (1969) degrees from the University of Mysore and worked as Lecturer, Siddaganga Science College, Tumkur (1969) and Head of the Department of Physics, Siddaganga Institute of Technology, Tumkur (1971). He joined Raman Research Institute (RRI), Bangalore (1972) for Ph.D. work in the area of Liquid Crystals under the guidance of Professor S.Chandrasekhar. He was appointed as Scientist at RRI in 1977. He visited the Institute, College de France, Paris (1983) as a Joliot Curie Fellow to do research at the Laboratory Physique de la Matiere Condensee headed by P.G. de Gennes. Later, he worked as a Research Scientist (1986-87) at Dowell Schlumberger, St. Etienne, France. He moved over to Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA as a Visiting Scientist (1987-1989). He returned to RRI (1989) to set up the laboratory for Light Scattering and Surface Science. He continued at RRI as an Associate Professor (1992), Professor (1997) and Senior Professor (2004). He had collaborative research with many groups and visited their labs as Visiting Professor: Curie Institute, Paris (March-April 1993); Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy (May 1993); Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent, USA (July-August 1996); Tokyo University of Science, Yamaguchi, Japan (July-August 2003); Department of Physics, Kent State University, Kent, USA (June-December 2004); Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA (June-July 2006); Institute of Solid State Physics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria (July-August 2010); Wigner Research Centre of Hungarian Academy of Sciences,Budapest (August-September 2012). In the year 2007, he moved to the Centre for Liquid Crystal Research, Bangalore as its Director. The Centre was renamed as Centre for Soft Matter Research (2010) where he continues presently as Scientist of Eminence (2010.......).

Research Interest

Soft Condensed Matter (Physics of Liquid Crystal and Surface Science)