Filtering Media by Electrospinning (PDF)

received her PhD in Industrial Chemistry on porous polymeric bioresorbable scaffolds for tissue engineering. She had postdoctoral positions in the area of polymeric materials for biomedical and functional applications. Her research interests include structure-properties relation in polymeric materials, nanostructured materials from electrospinning and smart and stimuli-responsive materials.




Seeram Ramakrishna, PhD, FREng is a Professor of materials engineering, and Director of the Centre for Nanofibers and Nanotechnology at the National University of Singapore. He pioneered nanotechnology in Singapore. He authored over 1,000 international journal papers and five books, which received ~72,000 citations and 127 H-index. He is a Highly Cited Researcher in Materials Science (Clarivate Analytics; Highly Cited Com). Thomson Reuters identified him among the World's Most Influential Scientific Minds. A European study (webometrics) ranked him at 3 among the only six researchers from Singapore with H index over 100, and among the^ 100) in the world. He is a member of World Economic Forum (WEF) Committee on Future of Production-Sustainability. He founded the Global Engineering Deans Council.




He received PhD from the University of Cambridge, UK, and The General Management Training from the Harvard University, USA. He is an elected Fellow of UK Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng); Singapore Academy of Engineering; Indian National Academy of Engineering; and ASEAN Academy of Engineering & Technology. He is an elected Fellow of International Union of Societies of Biomaterials Science and Engineering (FBSE); Institution of Engineers Singapore; ISTE, India; Institution of Mechanical Engineers and Institute of Materials, Minerals & Mining, UK; and American Association of the Advancement of Science; ASM International; American Society for Mechanical Engineers; American Institute for Medical & Biological Engineering, USA. His academic leadership includes University Vice-President (Research Strategy); Dean of Faculty of Engineering; Director of NUS Enterprise; Director of NUS Industry Liaison Office; Founding Director of NUSBioengineering; Founding Co-Director of NUS Nanoscience & Nanotechnology Initiative, NUSNNI; and Founding Chairman of Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore, SERIS.