N. Ravishankar

[4] N. Ravishankar, born on 12 February 1970, did his graduate studies in metallurgical engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Varanasi from where he earned a BTech in 1991.

On his return to India, he joined the IISc as a member of faculty at the Materials Research Centre (MRC).

[7] He is known to have done extensive work on the template free synthesis of nanowires and shape selection of low-dimensional nanostructured metals which has applications in the development of diagnostic and sensing devices.

[2][8] He led a team of scientists who developed, for the first time, ultrathin gold nanowires, with a diameter less than 2 nanometres and high angle boundaries, for use as reaction catalysts for cells.

[14] He has delivered several keynote or invited lectures[15][16] including those at the workshop on Advanced Tools for Nanoscopic Materials Characterization (2015),[17] and Nanodays 2015.