Kulkarni Giridhar

Kulkarni earned his PhD from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 1992, where he also conducted postdoctoral research. He moved to Cardiff University to work on a project funded by Unilever. In 1995, he joined the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR) as a faculty Fellow, serving there as a professor since 2008. Until 2011, he chaired the Materials Science Unit at JNCASR and held key administrative roles including dean of academic affairs and dean of faculty affairs. He later joined the Centre for Nano and Soft Matter Sciences (CeNS) as its director. In 2020, he returned to JNCASR as president, while continuing to serve as an adjunct professor at CeNS. Kulkarni has been a visiting scientist and professor at several prestigious institutions, including Cardiff University, the University of Tokyo, TASC-INFM in Trieste, Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, Purdue University, and the Institute of Molecular Sciences of Orsay at Université Paris-Sud. He also served as an adjunct professor at the Birck Nanotechnology Center, Purdue University (2009–2011), and held an international senior fellowship from the University of Bayreuth (2016–2018).