Kannan M. Krishnan was educated at IIT, Kanpur (B. Tech, Mechanical Engineering, 1978), SUNY, Stony Brook (MS, Materials Science, 1980) and UC, Berkeley (Ph.D., Materials Science, 1984). After graduation, he held various scientific and teaching positions at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and UC, Berkeley, before joining the University of Washington, in 2001, as the Campbell Chair Professor of Materials Science and Adjunct Professor of Physics. He has held visiting appointments in all six continents including the Hitachi Central Research Laboratory (Japan), Tohoku University, Danish Technical University, University of Sao Paolo, University of Western Australia, University of Alexandria (Egypt), and the Indian Institute of Science. Prof. Krishnan works at the Bio-Nano-Medical and Magneto-Electronic interfaces. He prepares and studies structural, magnetic, optical and transport properties of colloidal inorganic nanostructures, hybrid materials, thin films and lithographically patterned heterostructures. He investigates fundamental physical and chemical properties of these materials as a function of size, dimensionality and organization, and for the work on biomedical nanomagnetics, in vitro and in vivo studies of cytotoxicity, cell-culture and animal models with translational applications in angiography, cancer, neuroscience and renal ischemia. All his work is vertically integrated from the underlying science to their biomedical (diagnostics, imaging and therapeutics), energy (photovoltaics and energy conversion) and engineering (information storage, processing and logic) applications. Prof. Krishnan is highly recognized for research, teaching, mentoring and entrepreneurship. He has received the IEEE Donald G. Fink Prize (2012), Fulbright Specialist Award (2010), IEEE Magnetics Society Distinguished Lecturer Award (2009), Guggenheim Fellowship (2004), the Rockefeller Bellagio Residency Fellowship (2008), the Burton Medal (Microscopy Society of America, 1992), JSPS Invitational Senior Scientist Fellowship (2002), the College of Engineering Outstanding Educator Award (UW, 2004), the Exceptional Teaching Award (UC Berkeley MRS Student Chapter, 1996), appointment as the Professor-at-large (University of Western Australia, 2006-8) and a nomination as the UW candidate for the AAAS Mentor award (2009). Based on his teaching and scholarship, he is about to complete a comprehensive book, entitled “Fundamentals and Applications of Magnetic Materials” (Oxford University Press, to be published, 2013). He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Physical Society and the Institute of Physics (London). He has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Materials Science, Acta Materialia, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, IEEE Magnetics Letters and Medical Physics. His service activities are extensive and include the UW College of Engineering Promotion and Tenure Council (2001-5), the UW Common Book committee (2010), the IEEE Magnetics Society Administrative Committee (2011-3) and the Fetzer Institute Advisory Council on the Engineering Professions (2011-3). In 2010, along with two graduate students, he founded a company, LodeSpin Labs, involved in the development of tailored magnetic carriers for a range of biomedical applications. His avocations are painting ( see interests: art), poetry, hiking, travel and gardening.

Kannan M. Krishnan was educated at IIT, Kanpur (B. Tech, Mechanical Engineering, 1978), SUNY, Stony Brook (MS, Materials Science, 1980) and UC, Berkeley (Ph.D., Materials Science, 1984).

After graduation, he held various scientific and teaching positions at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and UC, Berkeley, before joining the University of Washington, in 2001, as the Campbell Chair Professor of Materials Science and Adjunct Professor of Physics. He has held visiting appointments in all six continents including the Hitachi Central Research Laboratory (Japan), Tohoku University, Danish Technical University, University of Sao Paolo, University of Western Australia, University of Alexandria (Egypt), and the Indian Institute of Science.

Prof. Krishnan works at the Bio-Nano-Medical and Magneto-Electronic interfaces. He prepares and studies structural, magnetic, optical and transport properties of colloidal inorganic nanostructures, hybrid materials, thin films and lithographically patterned heterostructures. He investigates fundamental physical and chemical properties of these materials as a function of size, dimensionality and organization, and for the work on biomedical nanomagnetics, in vitro and in vivo studies of cytotoxicity, cell-culture and animal models with translational applications in angiography, cancer, neuroscience and renal ischemia. All his work is vertically integrated from the underlying science to their biomedical (diagnostics, imaging and therapeutics), energy (photovoltaics and energy conversion) and engineering (information storage, processing and logic) applications.

Prof. Krishnan is highly recognized for research, teaching, mentoring and entrepreneurship. He has received the IEEE Donald G. Fink Prize (2012), Fulbright Specialist Award (2010), IEEE Magnetics Society Distinguished Lecturer Award (2009), Guggenheim Fellowship (2004), the Rockefeller Bellagio Residency Fellowship (2008), the Burton Medal (Microscopy Society of America, 1992), JSPS Invitational Senior Scientist Fellowship (2002), the College of Engineering Outstanding Educator Award (UW, 2004), the Exceptional Teaching Award (UC Berkeley MRS Student Chapter, 1996), appointment as the Professor-at-large (University of Western Australia, 2006-8) and a nomination as the UW candidate for the AAAS Mentor award (2009). Based on his teaching and scholarship, he is about to complete a comprehensive book, entitled “Fundamentals and Applications of Magnetic Materials” (Oxford University Press, to be published, 2013). He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Physical Society and the Institute of Physics (London). He has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Materials Science, Acta Materialia, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, IEEE Magnetics Letters and Medical Physics. His service activities are extensive and include the UW College of Engineering Promotion and Tenure Council (2001-5), the UW Common Book committee (2010), the IEEE Magnetics Society Administrative Committee (2011-3) and the Fetzer Institute Advisory Council on the Engineering Professions (2011-3).

In 2010, along with two graduate students, he founded a company, LodeSpin Labs, involved in the development of tailored magnetic carriers for a range of biomedical applications.

His avocations are painting ( see interests: art), poetry, hiking, travel and gardening.

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