Wednesday
18
February 2026
4:00 - 5:30 PM IST
Location
Room 207, School of Arts and Sciences
Central Campus
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Research from a Physics Lab to the Market: Turning Scientific Ideas into Products
Arts and Sciences Lecture Series
S. Anantha Ramakrishna
Dean, School of Science
GITAM University
Formerly Professor, IIT Kanpur
Director, CSIR-CSIO, Chandigarh
Speaker
I will share some experiences in deep tech commercialisation and product development. The path from Scientific ideas developed in the Physics laboratory to full-fledged commercialisation of the developed product is fraught with anticipated as well as unanticipated issues. Through three case studies, we will focus on learning from both successes and failures. These cases range from the development of biomedical devices and air sanitisation devices to combat the COVID-19 Pandemic to a product for defence.
Speaker
S. Anantha Ramakrishna
Professor S. Anantha Ramakrishna is the Dean of the School of Science at GITAM (Deemed to be University) and a Professor of Physics known for his work in optics, photonics, and metamaterials. His research integrates theory and experiment to engineer light–matter interactions for advanced applications. His foundational work on radar-stealth metamaterials led to Analakshya, a technology successfully field-tested for SAR shielding and thermal/EO camouflage, with extensions to airborne platforms.
Anantha graduated from IIT Kanpur with an integrated Master’s degree in Physics, served for over two decades as Professor of Physics at IIT Kanpur and has held positions at the Raman Research Institute, Imperial College London, EPFL (Switzerland), and Institut Fresnel (France). A recipient of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize (2016) and Swarnajayanti Fellowship (2012), he now leads GITAM’s School of Science with a focus on translational research, interdisciplinary education, and industry engagement.
