Ramesh M Thamankar

Dr. Ramesh Thamankar is an Associate Professor in the Centre for Functional Materials, VIT Vellore. He obtained his Masters in Science (Physics) from Mangalore university and M.Tech. in Materials Engineering from National Institute of Technology, Karnataka. After working in Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore for a year, he went to Germany to pursue Ph.D. at Institute for Experimental Physik, Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany. Here designed ultra high vacuum systems for growth and characterizing ultrathin 3d alloy films to study the correlation between structural and magnetic properties. In 2004, he went to University of California, Riverside to work in the areas of spintronics and organic electronics. From 2006 to 2009, he worked with Max-Planck Institute for Mikrostrukturphysik in Halle, Germany. Here he developed a process to fabricate ultrahigh density magnetic dots on single crystal metallic surfaces.

From 2010 to 2014, he worked as a scientist in Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE), A*STAR, Singapore and from 2014 – 2016, as a Senior Research Scientist at Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) Singapore.

His Research focusses on understanding physics at nanoscale and atomic scale. He has published more than 40 international publications and has presented more than 30 presentations/talks in international conferences. He has written 4 book chapters in Advances in Atom and Single Molecule Machines.

Currently, he is working on designing new materials for atomic scale electronics, memories and Neuromorphic computation.