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'''Siva Umapathy''' (born 10 June 1959) has been appointed as Honorary [[Professor]] of the Department of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry and also at the department of Instrumentation and Applied Physics by the [[Indian Institute of Science]] after his formal retirement in 2024. He was the [[Director (business)|Director]] (September 2018 to August 2023) of the [[Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal]] (IISER).<ref name="Prof. Siva Umapathy">{{Cite web |url=http://ipc.iisc.ernet.in/~umapathy |title=Prof. Siva Umapathy |date=2016 |publisher=Indian Institute of Science}}</ref> He is known for his studies of [[molecular dynamics]] using [[Raman spectroscopy]].<ref name="Brief Profile of the Awardee">{{Cite web |url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/Content/Detail.aspx?AID=96 |title=Brief Profile of the Awardee |date=2016 |publisher=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize |access-date=12 November 2016}}</ref> He is a fellow of the [[Royal Society of Chemistry]]<ref name="S. Umapathy on Elsevier">{{Cite web |url=http://www.journals.elsevier.com/spectrochimica-acta-part-a-molecular-and-biomolecular-spectroscopy/editorial-board/s-umapathy |title=S. Umapathy on Elsevier |date=2016 |publisher=Elsevier}}</ref> and an elected fellow of the [[Indian National Science Academy]] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_National_Science_Academy), [[Indian Academy of Sciences]]<ref name="Fellow profile">{{Cite web |url=http://www.ias.ac.in/describe/fellow/Umapathy,_Prof._Siva |title=Fellow profile |date=2016 |publisher=Indian Academy of Sciences |access-date=12 November 2016}}</ref> and also The [[National Academy of Sciences, India|National Academy of Science of India]]. The [[Council of Scientific and Industrial Research]], the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology]], one of the highest Indian science awards, in 2004, for his contributions to chemical sciences.<ref name="View Bhatnagar Awardees">{{cite web | url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/Content/AwardeeList.aspx | title=View Bhatnagar Awardees | publisher=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize | date=2016 | accessdate=12 November 2016}}</ref>
'''Siva Umapathy''' (born 10 June 1959) is Honorary [[Professor]] of the Department of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry and also at the Department of Instrumentation and Applied Physics by the [[Indian Institute of Science]] after his formal retirement in 2024 from a regular Professor position (from 1990). He was the [[Director (business)|Director]] (September 2018 to August 2023) of the [[Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal]] (IISER).<ref name="Prof. Siva Umapathy">{{Cite web |url=http://ipc.iisc.ernet.in/~umapathy |title=Prof. Siva Umapathy |date=2016 |publisher=Indian Institute of Science}}</ref> He is known for his studies of [[molecular dynamics]] using [[Raman spectroscopy]].<ref name="Brief Profile of the Awardee">{{Cite web |url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/Content/Detail.aspx?AID=96 |title=Brief Profile of the Awardee |date=2016 |publisher=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize |access-date=12 November 2016}}</ref> He is a fellow of the [[Royal Society of Chemistry]]<ref name="S. Umapathy on Elsevier">{{Cite web |url=http://www.journals.elsevier.com/spectrochimica-acta-part-a-molecular-and-biomolecular-spectroscopy/editorial-board/s-umapathy |title=S. Umapathy on Elsevier |date=2016 |publisher=Elsevier}}</ref> and an elected fellow of the [[Indian National Science Academy]] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_National_Science_Academy), [[Indian Academy of Sciences]]<ref name="Fellow profile">{{Cite web |url=http://www.ias.ac.in/describe/fellow/Umapathy,_Prof._Siva |title=Fellow profile |date=2016 |publisher=Indian Academy of Sciences |access-date=12 November 2016}}</ref> and also The [[National Academy of Sciences, India|National Academy of Science of India]]. The [[Council of Scientific and Industrial Research]], the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology]], one of the highest Indian science awards, in 2004, for his contributions to chemical sciences.<ref name="View Bhatnagar Awardees">{{cite web | url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/Content/AwardeeList.aspx | title=View Bhatnagar Awardees | publisher=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize | date=2016 | accessdate=12 November 2016}}</ref>


== Biography ==
== Biography ==
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== Awards and honors ==
== Awards and honors ==
Umapathy has been a holder of the Swarna Jayanthi Fellowship (2000) and the [[Jagadish Chandra Bose|J. C. Bose]] National Fellowship of the [[Department of Science and Technology (India)|Department of Science and Technology]] from 2010 to 2020 and again from Nov 2023 until 2027. He received the Young Investigator Award for the ICORS Conference at the [[University of South Carolina]] in 1989 and the Sir [[C. V. Raman]] Young Scientist Award from the Government of Karnataka in 2003.<ref name="Laser Spectroscopy Group" /> The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research awarded him the [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize]], one of the highest Indian science awards, in 2004.<ref name="Chemical Sciences">{{cite web | url=http://www.csir.res.in/External/Heads/career/award/BPRIZE/CHEMICAL_SCIENCES.htm | title=Chemical Sciences | publisher=Council of Scientific and Industrial Research | date=2016 | access-date=7 November 2016 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120912012851/http://www.csir.res.in/external/heads/career/award/BPRIZE/CHEMICAL_SCIENCES.htm | archive-date=12 September 2012 }}</ref> The same year, he received the Bronze Medal Medal of the [[Chemical Research Society of India]].<ref name="CRSI Bronze Medal">{{Cite web |url=http://www.crsi.org.in/index.php/crsi-awards/year-1999-2008 |title=CRSI Bronze Medal |date=2016 |publisher=Chemical Research Society of India}}</ref> He is also a recipient of the Raman-Mishishuma Award of the India-Japan Science Promotion Council which he received in 2012. He is a fellow of the [[Royal Society of Chemistry]] and became an elected fellow of the [[Indian Academy of Sciences]] in 2003.<ref name="Fellow profile" /> He has delivered several award orations including the Subbarao Memorial Lecture at the [[Osmania University]] (1993)<ref name="Laser Spectroscopy Group" /> and many invited and plenary lectures.<ref name="Laser Spectroscopy Group" />
Umapathy has been a holder of the Swarna Jayanthi Fellowship (2000) and the [[Jagadish Chandra Bose|J. C. Bose]] National Fellowship of the [[Department of Science and Technology (India)|Department of Science and Technology]] from 2010 to 2020 and again from Nov 2023 until 2027. He received the Young Investigator Award for the ICORS Conference at the [[University of South Carolina]] in 1989 and the Sir [[C. V. Raman]] Young Scientist Award from the Government of Karnataka in 2003.<ref name="Laser Spectroscopy Group" /> The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research awarded him the [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize]], one of the highest Indian science awards, in 2004.<ref name="Chemical Sciences">{{cite web | url=http://www.csir.res.in/External/Heads/career/award/BPRIZE/CHEMICAL_SCIENCES.htm | title=Chemical Sciences | publisher=Council of Scientific and Industrial Research | date=2016 | access-date=7 November 2016 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120912012851/http://www.csir.res.in/external/heads/career/award/BPRIZE/CHEMICAL_SCIENCES.htm | archive-date=12 September 2012 }}</ref> The same year, he received the Bronze Medal Medal of the [[Chemical Research Society of India]].<ref name="CRSI Bronze Medal">{{Cite web |url=http://www.crsi.org.in/index.php/crsi-awards/year-1999-2008 |title=CRSI Bronze Medal |date=2016 |publisher=Chemical Research Society of India}}</ref> He is also a recipient of the Raman-Mishishuma Award of the India-Japan Science Promotion Council which he received in 2012. He is a fellow of the [[Royal Society of Chemistry]] and Indian Chemical society and became an elected fellow of the [[Indian Academy of Sciences]], [[National Academy of Sciences, India]] and [[Indian National Science Academy]].<ref name="Fellow profile" /> He has delivered several award orations including the Subbarao Memorial Lecture at the [[Osmania University]] (1993)<ref name="Laser Spectroscopy Group" /> and many invited and plenary lectures.<ref name="Laser Spectroscopy Group" />


== References ==
== References ==

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Siva Umapathy
Born (1959-06-10) 10 June 1959 (age 67)
Tanjavur, Tamil Nadu, India
Alma mater
Known forStudies of molecular dynamics
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions

Siva Umapathy (born 10 June 1959) is Honorary Professor of the Department of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry and also at the Department of Instrumentation and Applied Physics by the Indian Institute of Science after his formal retirement in 2024 from a regular Professor position (from 1990). He was the Director (September 2018 to August 2023) of the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal (IISER).[1] He is known for his studies of molecular dynamics using Raman spectroscopy.[2] He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry[3] and an elected fellow of the Indian National Science Academy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_National_Science_Academy), Indian Academy of Sciences[4] and also The National Academy of Science of India. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards, in 2004, for his contributions to chemical sciences.[5]

Biography[edit | edit source]

Umapathy, born on 10 June 1959 in Tanjavur in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu, graduated in chemistry from the Kongunadu Arts and Science College of the University of Madras. He joined the PSG College of Technology from where he passed MSc in applied science in 1981.[6] Subsequently, he moved to New Zealand for his doctoral studies and secured a PhD in physical chemistry from the University of Otago.[7] Obtaining a research fellowship from Science and Engineering Research Board, he did his post-doctoral studies at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and the University of York. On his return to India, he joined the Indian Institute of Science where he served as Professor of the Department of Instrumentation and Applied Physics and the chair of the Department of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry. He headed the Laser Spectroscopy Group at the IISc where he hosts a number of doctoral and post-doctoral scholars.[8] He has also served as a visiting faculty or fellow at various institutions such as the Kanagawa Academy of Science and Technology, University of Groningen, Institute of Molecular Science, University of Tokyo, Imperial College of Science and Technology and University of Nottingham.[6] He also served as Director (September 2018 to August 2023) of the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal (IISER).

Legacy[edit | edit source]

Umapathy's research is centered on Laser spectroscopy and he has carried out extensive work on molecular dynamics using Raman spectroscopy.[9] His group also utilizes other spectroscopic techniques like infra red and is involved in the examination of the molecular structure of cells and tissues.[10] Using Raman spectroscopic techniques, he has developed a method to identify biomarkers in cells which is estimated to assist in early cancer detection.[7] He has published several peer-reviewed articles;[11] ResearchGate, an online repository of science articles, has listed 164 of them.[12]

Awards and honors[edit | edit source]

Umapathy has been a holder of the Swarna Jayanthi Fellowship (2000) and the J. C. Bose National Fellowship of the Department of Science and Technology from 2010 to 2020 and again from Nov 2023 until 2027. He received the Young Investigator Award for the ICORS Conference at the University of South Carolina in 1989 and the Sir C. V. Raman Young Scientist Award from the Government of Karnataka in 2003.[6] The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, one of the highest Indian science awards, in 2004.[13] The same year, he received the Bronze Medal Medal of the Chemical Research Society of India.[14] He is also a recipient of the Raman-Mishishuma Award of the India-Japan Science Promotion Council which he received in 2012. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and Indian Chemical society and became an elected fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Sciences, India and Indian National Science Academy.[4] He has delivered several award orations including the Subbarao Memorial Lecture at the Osmania University (1993)[6] and many invited and plenary lectures.[6]

References[edit | edit source]

  1. ↑ "Prof. Siva Umapathy". Indian Institute of Science. 2016.
  2. ↑ "Brief Profile of the Awardee". Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize. 2016. Retrieved 12 November 2016.
  3. ↑ "S. Umapathy on Elsevier". Elsevier. 2016.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Fellow profile". Indian Academy of Sciences. 2016. Retrieved 12 November 2016.
  5. ↑ "View Bhatnagar Awardees". Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize. 2016. Retrieved 12 November 2016.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 "Laser Spectroscopy Group". Indian Institute of Science. 2016. Archived from the original on 23 February 2018. Retrieved 28 November 2016.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 "Signature of Success: Siva Umapathy". India Today. 10 September 2011.
  8. ↑ "Prof. Siva Umapathy's Research Group". Indian Institute of Science. 2016.
  9. ↑ "Handbook of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Winners" (PDF). Council of Scientific and Industrial Research. 2016.
  10. ↑ "Research Overview". Indian Institute of Science. 2016.
  11. ↑ "Browse by Fellow". Indian Academy of Sciences. 2016.
  12. ↑ "Siva Umapathy on ResearchGate". 2016.
  13. ↑ "Chemical Sciences". Council of Scientific and Industrial Research. 2016. Archived from the original on 12 September 2012. Retrieved 7 November 2016.
  14. ↑ "CRSI Bronze Medal". Chemical Research Society of India. 2016.

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