Ramamoorthy Ramesh

Ramamoorthy Ramesh (born 1960) is an American materials scientist of Indian descent who has contributed to the synthesis, assembly and understanding of complex functional oxides. In particular, he has worked on the fundamental science and technology translation of ferroelectric perovskites, manganites with colossal magnetoresistance, and multiferroic oxides with potential benefits for modern information technologies. To date, Ramesh has >675 publications with >100,000 citations, resulting in an h-index >150. He was named Citation Laureate (Thomson Reuters) for his research on multiferroics (2014).

He is currently on leave from Berkeley, serving as the Executive Vice President for Research at Rice University, where he is also a professor in the Department of Materials Science and Nanoengineering and the Department of Physics and Astronomy.

Training and career
Ramamoorthy Ramesh received a B.S. in Chemistry from Madras University (1980) and a B.E. in Metallurgy from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering in 1985 and 1987, respectively. From 1989-1995 Ramesh was a Member of Technical Staff, Bell Communications Research (Red Bank). From 1995-1999, he became an Associate Professor in Materials Science and Engineering, University of Maryland and from 1999-2003 he was a Professor and Distinguished University Professor in Materials Science and Engineering, University of Maryland. Since 2004, he has been a Professor of Physics and Materials Science and Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. Since his move to Berkeley, Ramesh has had a number of leadership positions including serving as the Founding Director, U.S. Department of Energy SunShot Initiative (2011-2012), the Deputy Director, Science and Technology, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (2013-2014), and the Associate Laboratory Director, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (2014-2018). From 2004 onwards, he is the Purnendu Chatterjee Chair Professor in the Departments of Physics & Materials Science and Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley.

Awards and honors

 * 2024 Elected member, U.S. National Academy of Sciences
 * 2022 Elected member, National Academy of Inventors
 * 2022 Elected member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
 * 2022 Europhysics Prize in Condensed Matter Physics
 * 2022 Elected member, Indian National Academy of Engineering
 * 2021 Elected member, Indian National Science Academy
 * 2021 Distinguished University Professor, University of California, Berkeley
 * 2020 Elected Foreign Member of the Royal Society.
 * 2018 IUPAP Magnetism Prize and Neel Medal
 * 2014 FMD John Bardeen Award of TMS
 * 2012 Distinguished Alumnus Award, Indian Institute of Science Alumni Association
 * 2011 Elected member, United States National Academy of Engineering
 * 2010 James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials of the American Physical Society (together with Nicola A. Spaldin and Sang-Wook Cheong)
 * 2009 Materials Research Society Fellow
 * 2007 Materials Research Society David Turnbull Lectureship
 * C.K. Majumdar Lectureship Award, Bose Institute, Calcutta, India
 * 2006 Brahm Prakash Chair, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
 * 2005 Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
 * 2005 American Physical Society Adler Lectureship
 * 2003 Distinguished University Professor, University of Maryland, College Park
 * 2001 Fellow, American Physical Society
 * 2001 Alexander von Humboldt Senior Scientist Prize