Dr S. Sundar Manoharan, Director General, Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University, is a renowned Educationist, Scientist and an Administrator, has over 30 years of extensive experience in teaching and research in the area of Material Science and Nanotechnology.

Dr Manoharan obtained his doctoral degree from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and after his post doctoral fellowship, he served at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur as Professor and also as the Vice-Chancellor of Karunya University, Coimbatore.

He has served as a visiting professor at internationally reputed institutions including NUS, Singapore, University of California, Berkeley, Max Planck Institute, Germany, Imperial College, London and the University of Maryland, USA.

Dr Manoharan as held several administrative positions including, as a member of Project Advisory Committee at DST & DRDO Funding Agencies. For his immense contribution he was awarded Innovation Gold Medal by the Department of Science and Technology and Lockheed Martin, USA.

He is a recipient of Global Indus Techno-Innovators Award for his research contributions on Nanomaterials and Devices, by Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA and has received Innovation awards instituted by Intellectual Ventures, USA.

Dr Manoharan has authored numerous research publications and has 13 patents to his credit.