Prof. Dr. Dr. (h.c.) Sanjay Mathur - Curriculum Vitae
Education and Professional Career
since 2008: Director, Institute of Inorganic and Materials Chemistry, University of Cologne
2006-2008: Professor of Chemistry, Wuerzburg University, Wuerzburg
2002-2008: Head, CVD Division, Institute of New Materials, Saarbrücken
1996-2022: Senior Scientist, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany
1993-1996: Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Saarbrücken
1993-1994: R &D Executive in Panacea Pharmaceuticals Ltd, New Delhi, India
2004: Habilitation, Saarland University, Saarbrücken 2004, Germany
1992: Doctor of Philosophy, Chemical Laboratories, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, India
1989: Master of Philosophy (M. Phil), Physical Chemistry, Vikram University, Ujjain, India
1988: Master of Science (M. Sc.), Physical Chemistry, Vikram University, Ujjain, India, 1988
Calls Declined: Director, Institute of Functional Materials, KTH, Stockholm (2013, declined); Director, Institute for Ceramics Component Technologies, University Stuttgart (2021, declined); Director Fraunhofer Institute of Surface Technologies, IST, TU Braunschweig (declined, 2023)
Awards, Distinctions and Scientific Activities
2025: Fellow of the European Ceramic Society (ECerS) and Fellow of the African Academy of Science (AAS)
2022-2023: President of the American Ceramic Society (ACerS, 2022-23), USA
2021: Elected Foreign Fellow of National Academy of Science, India
2020: Elected Fellow of the European Academy of Science
2016: Honorary Doctorate of Vilnius University
Others:
- Founding Director of the Institute of Renewable Energy Sources at the Xian Jiao Tong University, Xian, China
- Honorary Professor at the Chonbuk University in Korea
- Distinguished Faculty at IIT Madras, and IIT Kharagpur, India
- Academician of the World Academy of Ceramics
- Fellow of the American Ceramic Society, ASM International and the Materials Research Society
- Woody White Award of the Materials Research Society (USA)
- Gold Medal of the Chemical Research Society of India
- Materials Frontiers Award of the International Union of Materials Research Society
- Editor and Editor-in-Chief to internationally acknowledged journals Nano Energy (Elsevier), Progress in Materials Science (Elsevier) and Intl. Journal of Electroceramics (Springer-Nature), respectively
- elected member of the Review Board of the German Science Foundation (DFG), the European Science Council and the Vice-President of the International Union of Materials Research Society