7) Subra Suresh –

Subra Suresh is the former Dean of Engineering and the Vannevar Bush Professor of Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Director of National Science Foundation (NSF), nominated by Barrack Obama. He is the faculty member in the following depts. at MIT - Health Sciences and Technology, Biological Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering. He completed his B.Tech from Indian Institute of Technology Madras, his M.S. from Iowa State University and ScD from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His area of research focuses on the chemicals present in the cells of human beings in order to fight genetic diseases, malaria and various types of cancers. Suresh received the Padma Shri in 2011. He is a member of National Academy of Engineering in the U.S. He has received numerous other awards, such as – the European Materials Medal in 2007 and the Acta Materialia Gold Medal in 2006. The Technology Review magazine called his work to “have a significant impact on business, medicine or culture." He is the member of various organizations such as - German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Academy of Sciences of the Developing World, TWAS, Trieste, Italy, Indian National Academy of Engineering and American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is an honorary member of the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences and Indian Academy of Sciences of Bangalore. He is also an honorary member of various Indian and U.S. materials societies, such as - Materials Research Society of India, Indian Institute of Metals, American Ceramic Society, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society, American Society for Materials International and Materials Research Society. He has co-authored the following books - Thin Film Materials, Fundamentals of Functionally Graded Materials and Fatigue of Materials. He is the co-inventor of 14 international and U.S. patents. Many of his works have been used as study materials to teach and train people around the globe.