Prof. Vijayshankar Dandapani Assistant Professor Department of Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay Powai, Mumbai 400076 India Phone: (022) 2576-7617 E-mail: v.dandapani [at] iitb [dot] ac [dot] in

Vijay obtained his Bachelors in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Guwahati, India, and his Masters in Materials Science and Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, USA. He was a guest scientist at the Physics of Interfaces Department, Max-Planck-Institut für Polmerforschung, Mainz, Germany. He received his Ph.D. from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Ruhr University, Bochum working with PD Dr. Michael Rohwerder, Head of the Corrosion group, Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung GmbH, Duesseldorf, Germany in 2017. His doctoral work was selected for presentation as one of the two best talks at the Gordon Research Conference, Aqueous Corrosion in 2016. He was a postdoctoral scientist at the Institute for Energy and Process Systems Engineering, Technical University (TU) Braunschweig, Germany, before he joined IIT Bombay in Fall 2019 as an Assistant Professor. At IIT Bombay, he established the Electrochemistry at Interface Lab in September 2022.

His research interests lie in the broad domain of interfacial electrochemistry, aqueous corrosion and high temperature oxidation.