Mangalurean Prof Dr Anjana Devi appointed director at IFW Dresden, Germany


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Dresden (Germany), Jan 6: Prof Dr Anjana Devi has become the new director of the IFW Institute for Material Chemistry on January 1.

Prof Dr Anjana Devi has taken over as the new director of the Institute for Materials Chemistry (IMC) at the Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research (IFW) Dresden. At the same time, she is appointed as the chair of materials chemistry in the faculty of chemistry and food chemistry at the Technical University of Dresden. With her internationally recognized expertise, Devi brings a new thematic focus to the research programme of IFW Dresden. The IFW Institute for Complex Materials (IKM), as it was previously called, will in future focus on materials chemistry. This will enable the entire institute to work together on an extended interdisciplinary basis, from theoretical calculations to experimental research into new materials for effective and sustainable future technologies.

Anjana Devi has a broad expertise in the field precursor chemistry and the development of new ALD/MOCVD processes of functional materials. She employs novel precursors to synthesize nanostructured advanced functional materials for various applications ranging from micro/nano/opto electronics to energy conversion and storage. The research activities include an interdisciplinary approach with a special focus on bridging synthetic chemistry and materials chemistry. At IFW, the research will be centred on 2D materials, in particular their scalable synthesis, heterostructures and nanostructured surfaces.

The ability to design their electronic and structural properties will significantly expand the application areas of 2D materials for industry and thus lead to sustainable research and development at IFW Dresden. Prof Devi is an active and internationally recognized collaborator undertaking joint projects with leading research groups and industries in the field of ALD and CVD.

"With Anjana Devi, we have gained an outstanding expert in the research field of materials chemistry who has a strong international network and reputation," emphasizes scientific director Prof Dr Bernd Büchner. "Her expertise in advanced functional materials and their development adds another fundamental pillar to our research program in the research for new materials for future technologies. On behalf of the entire institute, I would like to warmly welcome her."

With her profound expertise in this field, Prof Devi will establish a competence center for atomic layer deposition with the ASPIRE2D project at IFW Dresden in the coming years, which will aim to process advanced 2D functional materials on an atomic scale for future technologies. The focus is on the development of new molecular precursors and transforming them into nanostructured functional materials followed by testing the materials for device applications. In addition, a systematic understanding and evaluation of selected chemical processes will be undertaken. The new ALD competence center will serve as an interdisciplinary platform for researchers and manufacturing institutions within the Silicon Saxony network and the Leibniz Association. A task which the new director is very pleased to fulfill: "I am very excited to venture deep into the development of advanced nanostructured functional materials at IFW. Technological advances are rising tremendously in various sectors and there is a huge demand for new materials with defined functionalities to be identified and processed. The excellent infrastructure and resources that will be at my disposable and the strong interdisciplinary research activities at IFW will enable me to design and develop purpose-driven advanced materials. 2D materials are exciting owing to their multifaceted properties and thus revolutionizing many fields of applications. As research in this field intensifies, the contribution to this field in terms of scalable synthesis of 2D materials via MOCVD and ALD using novel precursor chemistries can facilitate new technological applications in the future.”

In addition to her professional expertise, Anjana Devi has proven herself to be an internationally connected person who is committed to the urgent challenges of these times. Starting her career as a junior professor at the Ruhr University Bochum in 2002, she was the speaker of the ‘Global Young Faculty’ organization, which dealt with the effects of climate change, and she has been supporting the ‘Soroptimist Club’ project in Bochum since 2017, which gives women and girls the opportunity to access education.

The administrative director of IFW Dresden, Juliane Schmidt, also warmly welcomes Prof Devi to the institute: "With Anjana Devi, another female scientist is taking over the directorship of one of the IFW institutes exactly one year after Yana Vaynzof, which is extremely gratifying. Both directors and their projects were recently selected for the ‘Leibniz Programme for Women Professors’, which supports innovative research by women in science. We are pleased to be role models for the next generations of researchers in this context.

Prof Dr Anjana Devi studied chemistry, physics, mathematics and materials science at St Agnes College under Mangalore University until 1991. She completed her PhD in materials science at the Materials Research Center of the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru. With a fellowship awarded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, she moved to Ruhr University Bochum (RUB) as a postdoc in 1998. She has been a junior professor at RUB since 2002 and professor of inorganic materials chemistry since 2011.

In 2020, she was awarded an honorary doctorate in science and technology by Aalto University in Finland in recognition of her contributions to the field of precursor chemistry for CVD and ALD applications. In 2021, Prof Devi received the Attract grant from the Fraunhofer Society for carrying out research on 2D materials for innovative sensors using ALD technology. Since then, she has been leading the Nanostructured Sensor Materials (NSM) research group at the Fraunhofer Institute for Microelectronic Circuits and Systems (IMS) in Duisburg.

Starting January this year, she is the director of the Institute for Materials Chemistry (IMC) at IFW Dresden and professor of materials chemistry at TU Dresden.

 

 

 

  

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  • KS Mayya, Mangalore/Bangalore

    Sat, Jan 06 2024

    Heartiest Congratulations. It is a rare feat because unlike in the US or UK, it is tough to rise to the top in rest of Europe. To this end, it is a commendable feat and not something that is easy or usual about this achievement. And for those who have made it their favorite pass time to bash Modi in every comment section, individual brilliance is there everywhere and many in India. For it to combine together and result in an outcome like Moon Landing etc., is very huge and hence very special. It is politics of Nehruvian era that is not allowing such brilliance to combine in many top institutions because it is filled with political stooges who were filled during the Congress era for controlling those institutions rather than for doing science. It will take that long for the mentality to change in those institutions. Remember the op-ed of one Bharath Ratna awardee condemning the nuclear tests of 1998?

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  • Rudolf Rodrigues, Mumbai -Mangalore

    Sat, Jan 06 2024

    Mayyaji; being a mature person, politicisation of this, totally unrelated,subject was not expected from you; right now, in the here and now, we are hearing mind numbing 24/7 publicity of the inauguration of a famous religious place to happen in a few days..... wherein...... place of top religious seers has already been put on the backseat... you know better.... please take these comments in the right spirit; I do not believe in any ORGANISED religion 😔🙏

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  • KS Mayya, Mangalore/Bangalore

    Sat, Jan 06 2024

    Dear Rudolf Rodrigues, Mumbai -Mangalore, Nothing wrong in being matured and one should seriously consider it. Looking at your comments on this comment section, it is highly recommended for you. While at it, sometimes, matured should speak when volume of those who are not are loud and does not make sense whatsoever that it becomes the narrative of all.

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  • Anand, Surathkal

    Sat, Jan 06 2024

    Congratulations to Dr.Anjana Devi. We all Mangaloreans are proud of you. Make in India may be a fake statement for some but : Indian scientists CAN make anti Covid vaccine in 38 days. Indian scientists CAN manufacture an explorer which CAN land on moon. Indian scientists CAN manufacture fighter jets for Indian Air Force in India. and there are many more make in India projects.

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  • Rudolf Rodrigues, Mumbai -Mangalore

    Sat, Jan 06 2024

    OMG 😱; vaccine development in "38 days"...... et al.......on which planet was this???

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  • Anand, Surathkal

    Sat, Jan 06 2024

    Pl. watch "The Vaccine War" based on true facts.

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  • John Tauro, M'lore

    Sat, Jan 06 2024

    To add: Vande Bharat train too is a part of Make in India.

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  • Jossey Saldanha, Raheja Waterfront

    Sat, Jan 06 2024

    Finally a Proud Mangalorean ...

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  • Rudolf Rodrigues, Mumbai -Mangalore

    Sat, Jan 06 2024

    She is a German citizen!!

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  • Jossey Saldanha, Raheja Waterfront

    Sat, Jan 06 2024

    Have you heard about Kodi Bengre ...

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  • real kujuma, kodial

    Sat, Jan 06 2024

    this is a clear cut example of brilliant Indians going abroad inspite of feku's make in india fake jumlabaazi...they know that their skills can be used optimum only in western countries.

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  • k b r, Mangala Uru

    Sat, Jan 06 2024

    oye kujumbe, she went abroad in the 90-s, her going abroad has nothing to do with feku ...

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