Editorial Board Member

Biography

Dr. M. Thirumavalavan is a Professor of Chemistry at Saveetha Engineering College at Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. He is also serving as an Adjunct Faculty at Department of Science and Education, National Chung-Hsing University, Taiwan and Scientific Editor, Proofreader and Consultant at National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan. Previously, Dr. Thirumavalavan served as a Research Faculty and Research Scientist at various countries working on multi- disciplinary fields of science and technology. He has earned his Ph.D. degree in Inorganic Chemistry from University of Madras, India working on synthesis and characterization of macro-bicyclic mono and binuclear metal complexes which showed multi-functional applications. He has nearly 24 years of experience in the research, and teaching aimed to new cutting edges both in Science and engineering technologies. He has guided several Master and Ph.D. students and he has completed several funded projects with significant research outcomes. His recent research is focused on different nano-materials to explore their wide applications in chemical, biotechnology and pharmacology fields and mainly for photo-catalysis. Notably, Dr. Thirumavalavan has authored nearly 75 reputed publications along with 15 Indian patents and also being one of the editorial board members of several journals. His current research activity is devoted to design and manifest versatile multi-functional nano-biocatalysts (NBCs) for various bio-processing and pharmaceutical applications. Apart from his academic career, he is a notable scholarly writer and speaker in Tamil having written many stories and poems and published few books in Tamil.