Ram Seshadri, University of California—Santa Barbara
Ram Seshadri received his PhD in Solid State Chemistry in 1995 from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, working under the guidance of Professor C. N. R. Rao FRS. After some years as a postdoctoral fellow in France and Germany, he returned
to IISc as an Assistant Professor in 1999. He moved to the Materials Department (College of Engineering) at UC Santa Barbara in 2002. Since 2020, he is a Distinguished Professor in the Materials Department and the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry.
He is also the Fred and Linda R. Wudl Professor of Materials Science and Director of the Materials Research Laboratory: A National Science Foundation Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (NSF-MRSEC). His work, embodied in over 400 journal
publications, broadly addresses the topic of structure–composition–property relations in crystalline inorganic and hybrid materials, with a focus on magnetic materials and materials for energy conversion and storage. He is a Fellow of
several professional societies including the American Physical Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He currently serves as an Associate Editor of the journal Annual Reviews of Materials Research, and Executive Editor
of the journal Chemistry of Materials.