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Biography of G. K. Surya Prakash

Name: G. K. Sun light

Birth Date: 1963

Location: Bangalore

Profession: Professor

Early Biography of G. K. Surya Prakash:

        G. K. Surya Prakash was born in 1953 in Bangalore. He was the sixth child of his father the late GN Kushnamurthy. His father was a professor of the famous Economics of Bangalore. He studied at Government Primary School and Gandhinagar Higher Secondary School in Vasantnagar.

        He completed his BSc Hons in 1972 from Bangalore University. He got his MSc degree from IT Madras in 1974. And PhD was completed in 1978 under the direction of George Ollah from the University of Southern California.

Works of G. K. Surya Prakash :

        G. K. Surya Prakash is a professor in Hydracarbon Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Southern California. He serves as the director of the Locker Hydrocarbon Research Institute. Where he maintains his primary research laboratory. He is also currently working as the director of chemistry. He has worked on the characteristic of stable carbocation in superseeds. He also serves on several editorial boards of prominent scientific journals.

        Dr. Prakash is a skilled researcher. Which has more than 800 peer-reviewed publications. Which have been exposed more than 40 | 000 times. And is a co-author of several edited books and monographs. He co-developed Direct Methanol Fuel Cell DMFC with NASA-JPL partners. This deficiency is sometimes referred to as Rupert's light reagent.

Honor to G. K. Surya Prakash:

1) He is the recipient of three American Chemical Society National Awards 2004,2006 and 2018.

2) In 2011, he was elected fellow of the European Academy of Sciences for his contribution towards the methanol economy.

3) Awarded Tenry Moisson Award for his work in Fluorine Chemistry.

4) Kappa's Faculty Recognition Award for Research and Scholarship 1986.

5) CRSI Medal, Chemical Research Society of India 2010 |

6) 2012 Partner of the European Academy of Sciences |

7) Mellon Mentoring Award Post Doctoral Southern California University 2012 |

8) Eric and Sheila Samson Awarded Prime Minister for Alternative Fuel for Transport from Israel Rajaya 2013 |

9) The National Academy of Sciences India NASA Foreign Fellow 2013 |

10) 19th Challers Read Ended Lecturer, Rensselaer Positechnik Institute 2016 |