R. Mohan Sankaran
Donald Biggar Willett Professor in Engineering
Department of Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
111H Talbot Laboratory
104 South Wright Street
Urbana, IL 61801 U.S.A.
Phone: +1-217-244-7316
Email: rmohan@illinois.edu
Mohan obtained his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1998 where he worked with Prof. Harold Monbouquette on synthesis of cadmium sulfide quantum dots using bimimetic approaches based on phosphatidylcholine vesicles. He received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology in 2004 where he worked with Prof. Konstantinos Giapis on atmospheric-pressure microplasmas for materials applications. He began his independent academic career in 2005 as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Case Western Reserve University. In 2020, Mohan moved to the Department of Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering (NPRE) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Mohan has been recognized for his research by several honors including the NSF Career Award, AFOSR Young Investigator Award, Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, and AVS Peter Mark Memorial Award. He currently serves as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology.