IIT optics specialist Ramakrishna joins as CSIO director

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, July 28

Dr S Anantha Ramakrishna on Tuesday joined as Director, Central Scientific Instruments Organisation (CSIO) here. Prior to this, he was a professor with the Department of Physics at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.

Besides being conferred the Bhatnagar Award, he also has been awarded the Swarnajayanti Fellowship, INSA Young Scientist Medal and Homi Bhabha Prize. 

His specialisation is in optics and condensed matter physics. He has also made fundamental contributions in the field of metamaterials and in developing new forms of anisotropic photonic materials. 

He has also been adjunct faculty at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali, visiting professor, Nanophotonics and Metrology Group, Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne, Switzerland and invited professor, Institut Fresnel, Universite Aix Marseille-I, France.

On taking over CSIO’s reins, Dr Ramakrishna said it was his privilege to lead the premier national laboratory dedicated to research, design and development of scientific and industrial instruments. He said CSIO is a multi-disciplinary and multi-dimensional industrial research and development organisation and is poised to stimulate growth of instrument industry in India covering wide range and applications. 

Stating that CSIO has well-equipped laboratories manned by highly qualified and well-trained staff with infrastructural facilities in the areas of agrionics, medical instrumentation and prosthetic devices, optics and cockpit-based instrumentation, laser optics-based sensors and advanced materials-based transducers, he added that a large number of instruments ranging from simple ones for society at large to highly sophisticated ones for defence forces have been developed here.

He said he would strengthen the existing capabilities of CSIO and also strive to position CSIO so that it can further serve the country in new forthcoming challenges.