Kumar Wickramasinghe

Kumar Wickramasinghe
FRS
Born
Hemantha Kumar Wickramasinghe
Alma materKing's College London (BSc)
University College London (PhD)
Known forScanning thermal microscopy
AwardsJoseph F. Keithley Award For Advances in Measurement Science (2000)
Scientific career
FieldsScanning probe microscopy
Nanotechnology
Nanobiotechnology[1]
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Irvine
ThesisTwo and Three Dimensional Acoustic Holography in Solids (1974)
Doctoral advisorEric Ash
Websiteengineering.uci.edu/users/h-kumar-wickramasinghe

Hemantha Kumar Wickramasinghe FRS is Nicolaos G. and Sue Curtis Alexopoulos Presidential Chair in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine.[1][2]

Education

He graduated from King's College London with a Bachelor of Science degree in Electronic and Electrical Engineering in 1970 and a PhD[3] in Electronic and Electrical Engineering from University College London in 1974 where his advisor was Eric Ash.[4]

Career and research

He was awarded the Joseph F. Keithley Award For Advances in Measurement Science in 2000. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2019.[5] He is a member of the Center for Chemistry at the Space-Time Limit.

Personal life

He is the brother of noted mathematician, astronomer and astrobiologist Chandra Wickramasinghe.


References

  1. ^ a b Kumar Wickramasinghe publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ^ "H. Kumar Wickramasinghe". Henry Samueli School of Engineering. Retrieved 29 April 2019.
  3. ^ Wickramasinghe, H. Kumar (1974). Two and Three Dimensional Acoustic Holography in Solids. jisc.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University College London (University of London). OCLC 500588924. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.477197.
  4. ^ "CURRICULUM VITAE: H. Kumar Wickramasinghe" (PDF). Retrieved 29 April 2019.
  5. ^ "Kumar Wickramasinghe". Royal Society. Retrieved 29 April 2019.