Ezhil Vizhi R

R. Ezhil Vizhi is a Professor at the Centre for Functional Materials, VIT. She obtained her Master’s degree in Physics from Rajah Serfoji Govt. College, Thanjavur, Bharathidasan University. She completed her M.Phil. degree in Physics from Queen Mary’s College, Chennai and Doctoral degree in Physics (Materials Science) from Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore. She joined VIT in 2001 to work and doing research in Materials Science. Her research works revolves around two fields namely crystal growth and nanomagnetic materials. Synthesizing organic, inorganic and semi organic crystals for NLO application have been one part of her work. The second part is research on magnetic nanomaterials mainly revolves around the characterization of soft and hard ferrites for permanent magnet applications.

Her research laboratory focuses on the design and development of multifunctional nanomaterials for permanent magnet, spintronics, recording media and biomedical applications. She has produced five Ph.D students and presently guiding six research scholars in the field of crystal growth, nanomagnetic materials and thin films. She has authored over 53 research publications, 62 conference presentations and 2 books. She has been reviewer in reputed international journals.

Dr. Ezhil Vizhi has received several recognitions in her research career which includes the Active Researcher award from Vellore Institute of Technology [VIT] (2011 to 2019), Fast Track Young Scientist Fellowship from Department of Science and Technology [DST] (2012), Woman Achiever Award from Vellore Institute of Technology [VIT] (2020). She has also received a grant from Department of Science and Technology [DST- EMR] in 2017. She is a life member of Indian Association for crystal growth and Magnetic Society of India.