Sabu Thomas
Mahatma Gandhi University, India
Biography
Professor Sabu Thomas is presently the Director and Professor of International and Interuniversity Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology and School of Chemical Sciences, Mahatma Gandhi University, India. He has more than 30 years’ experience in Polymer Science and Technology and has contributed greatly to the research and development of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. Prof. Sabu Thomas received his Ph. D from IIT, Kharagpur and then joined as a Senior Visiting Researcher, Katholieke University, Leuven, Belgium and Laval University, Quebec, Canada. He is one of the pioneers of polymer science and technology and has published over 750 peer reviewed research papers.He has co-edited nearly 60 books and is the inventor of 5 patents. He has supervised 79 Ph.D theses and his H index is 79 with nearly 29,675 citations. Prof. Thomas has delivered over 300 Plenary/Inaugural and Invited lectures in national/international meetings over 30 countries. He is currently, the chief editor of Nano-Structures & Nano-Objects and also serves the reviewer for several International journals. Professor Thomas has received a number of national and international awards including, FRSC,MRSI, Nano Tech, CRSI, Sukumar Maithy Award etc. He is in the list of most productive researchers in India and holds a position of No.5. Thomas has been conferred Honoris Causa (D.Sc) by the University of South Brittany, France in 2015 and in 2017 he has been selected for conferring with D.Sc from University Lorraine, France.