Dr. R. Jayakumar - Professor at Polymeric Biomaterials Lab, School of Nanosciences and Molecular Medicine (ACNSMM), Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham (University), Kochi-682041, India-specializing in the area of Polymeric Biomaterials. Dr. R. Jayakumar joined ASNSMM during November-2007. He received his Ph.D. in Polymer Chemistry from the Anna University, Chennai, India (2002). He has over 265 Journal publications, 10 book chapter and 10 patents to his credit. His publications have been cited more than 24000 times with h-index-80. In addition, he has also edited and published 7 books. Dr. Jayakumar's research laboratory at ASNSMM is mainly interested in the development of polymeric nanofibers, nanogels, nanoparticles, nanocomposite scaffolds and injectable hydrogels for tissue engineering, drug delivery and wound healing applications. He was awarded the University Postdoctoral Fellowship from Chonbuk National University (2002-2003), South Korea and FCT Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Government of Portugal (2003-2005). In addition, he was also awarded the prestigious JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship (2005-2007) from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Japan. He has received the “Best Paper Award” from Journal of Materials Science Materials in Medicine (Springer) and IET Nanobiotechnology Journal. He received “Faculty Researcher Award-2016” from Indian Chitin and Chitosan Society and “MRSI Medal-2017” from Materials Research Society of India. He also received “India Research Excellence-Citation Awards 2017 (Health & Medical Science area)” from Clarivate Analytics, Web of Science. He was selected as a “World Top 2% Scientists from India” in “Polymers” field by Stanford University, USA in the year of 2020 & 2021. He recently received “Chancellor’s Research Excellence Award-2021” from Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham (University), India. He also be listed in the “Top 10 Material Science Researchers from India”. He also completed more than 20 funded projects in Polymeric Biomaterials area.
