Rama Venkatasubramanian

Dr. Rama Venkatasubramanian is the Chief Technologist for the thermoelectrics area and leads a team whose work focuses on developing advanced solid-state energy technologies for energy conversion, thermal management, and biological applications. He is known for pioneering atomically engineered superlattices and other nanoscale thermoelectric device innovations (Nature, 2001 Nature Nanotechnology, 2009). Dr. Venkatasubramanian is a Fellow of the Johns Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute (HEMI), IEEE, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science and served as an editor for IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices from 2011 to 2020. He has 20 issued U.S. patents and is the author or coauthor of over 100 peer-reviewed journal articles and conference publications, and edited, or contributed to six book chapters. Dr. Venkatasubramanian received two R&D 100 Awards for thermoelectric materials and device developments. His areas of expertise include applied thermoelectrics and thermal management with materials and devices, nano-engineered materials for energy conversion, photovoltaics and optoelectronics, and semiconductor materials and devices.