Doraiswami Ramkrishna, Harry Creighton Peffer Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering at Purdue University since 1994, obtained his B Engineering
Education
Degree from University of Mumbai in 1960, and his Doctor of Philosophy in Chemical Engineering from the University of Minnesota in 1965. Following his Doctor of Philosophy, he was an Assistant Professor for two years at Minnesota before returning to the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur where he served on the faculty for nearly seven years.
Career
He returned to the United States in 1974 as a Visiting Associate Professor in 1974, thereafter as a visiting professor at Minnesota in 1975 before joining Purdue University as a Professor of Chemical Engineering in 1976. Professor Ramkrishna’s research interests lie in the application of mathematics to chemical and biochemical reaction engineering. He has published nearly 200 papers and two books, one entitled Linear Operator Methods in Chemical Engineering (Prentice-Hall) coauthored with Neal Amundson, and the other on Population Balances.
Theory and Applications to Particulate Systems in Engineering and Science (Academic Press).
He has directed approximately 35 doctoral students and numerous post-doctoral associates, and placed several students in academia. He has held a number of Distinguished Visiting Professorships in various universities such as, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (1982: University Grants Commission Visiting Professor), Bombay University (1983: G P Kane Visiting Professor, 1994: Dow-Sharma Distinguished Fellow, 2010: Military Medal Sharma Distinguished Professor), University of Minnesota (1988: George T Piercy Distinguished Professor), University of Notre Dame (1994: Melchor Visiting Professor).
Membership
He is a member of National Academy of Engineering.