Chidambaram ThamaraiselvanDr. Chidambaram Thamaraiselvan is member of DST Inspire Faculty in the Interdisciplinary Centre for Energy Research (ICER), at IISc Bangalore (India). He obtained his Ph.D. from Karunya Institute of Technology and Science (KITS), India, under the guiance of Prof. Michael Noel and Prof. Yoram Oren (visiting professor, Ben-Gurion University, Israel). Afterwards, he then moved to the Technion Israel Institute of Technology (TIIT), Israel, for his postdoctoral studies. He had been awarded an Indo-Israel government scholarship for his postdoctoral research. Then he started his second postdoc studies at the Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. His Ph.D. research focused on preventing organic and inorganic fouling during textile dye wastewater treatment and enhancing brine recovery from dye wastewater. His research mainly focuses on biofouling control in the membrane filtration system, which includes developing electrically conductive membranes based on carbon nanotubes, and graphene and modifying feed spacer by nano-oxides for biofouling prevention in UF/RO membrane filtration systems. Read More Read Less