Dr. Vaddiraju’s Journey

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Initial Education

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Doctoral (Class of ‘06)

At the University of Louisville, KY, Dr. Vaddiraju received his Ph.D. on:
The synthesis and applications of refractory metal and refractory metal oxide nanowires,
and the in-situ synthesis of semiconductor-metal junctioned nanowires.

The thesis work is done partly done in NASA Ames Research Center

Further Studies & Career

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Dr. Sreeram Vaddiraju then pursued his postdoc in Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston

His key contributions during this period include:

Developing vapor phase methods for synthesizing transition metal and metal oxide nanowires.
Innovating self-catalytic growth methods for compound semiconductor nanowires.
Fabricating infrared lasers from sub-micron gallium antimonide nanowires.
Creating novel inorganic-organic hybrid LEDs.

Later joined Texas A&M University, College Station, as an Assistant Professor in
Fall 2009, and then became an Associate Professor in 2015.
He is currently leading a research group at Texas A&M University,
focusing on various areas and solving some of the most complex problems in Science.

Notable Achievements

Mass production and large-scale assembly of nanowires into energy devices.
Achieving high thermoelectric figure-of-merit values in nanowire bulk pellets.
Rapid and inexpensive water disinfection using nanowire systems.
Pioneering real-time detection of microbiologically-influenced corrosion (MIC) and creating multifunctional nanowire-based composites.

Collaborations & Sponsorships

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