Dr. Ram Prasad Gandhiraman                 

CEO

Space Foundry Inc.,

San Jose, CA

Email: ram@spacefoundry.us

ramprasad.gandhiraman@gmail.com

Web: www.spacefoundry.us

Welcome to my webpage. I am currently the CEO and Founder of Space Foundry Inc., a hardware startup based in Silicon valley. As an entrepreneur, technologist and a materials scientist, I have  passion for innovation and solving problems to change the status quo.   My single focus in the past 7 years has been to productize my innovation and build the company from Zero To One. My activities was  spread across several domains and constant learning to keep things moving.  Some of the tasks include business development, team building,  hiring, fund raising, sales, customer acquisition, product and process development,  intellectual property, legal, finance etc.,

I have experience in diverse areas of materials science and engineering, interdisciplinary research, plasma processing, printed electronics, sensors and biointerphases.  Prior to this startup journey, I worked as a staff scientist at Universities Space Research Association and also as a principal investigator at NASA Ames Research Center. My focus at NASA was on developing technologies for in situ resource utilization for long duration space missions.

PhD., School of Electronic Engineering, Dublin City University, Ireland.(2007) 

M.Sc.,Materials Science, PSG College of Technology, Tamilnadu, India. (2002) 

B.Sc.,Applied Sciences, Coimbatore Institute of Technology, Tamilnadu, India.(2000)

Main research areas in prior jobs:

Advanced Materials Printing Technology 

Printable electronics for Martian environment: Reprogramming of micro organisms for recyling and printing of electronics in Mars

http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-invests-in-two-dimensional-spacecraft-reprogrammable-microorganisms

http://phys.org/news/2016-07-scientists-plasma-printed-sensors-astronaut-health.html

Nanomaterials printing on flexible substrates and 3D objects

Organic and inorganic coating and functionalization of surfaces

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/03/160322120038.htm

https://www.aip.org/publishing/journal-highlights/printing-nanomaterials-plasma

http://www.qmed.com/mpmn/medtechpulse/how-plasma-can-print-nanomaterials-flexible-surfaces

Materials Science & Surface Engineering

Plasma Processing: Low pressure plasma (PECVD, Magnetron Sputtering) and atmospheric pressure plasma deposition of electronic materials and thin film coatings

Surface science:  Materials characterization including SEM, AFM,  Raman, SIMS, FTIR, UV-Vis, ellipsometry, electro chemistry, fluorescence spec, profilometry, nano indentation, XRD, XRR, plasmonics etc.,

Synchrotron X ray spectroscopy: X ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and Near Edge X ray Absorption Fine Structure (NEXAFS) of electronic and energy related materials, organic and inorganic coatings

Healthcare

Air decontamination: Dielectric barrier discharge based inactivation of air borne micro-organism

Biodiagnostics: Low cost paper based bio diagnostic device development, plasma processing of plastics and microfluidic devices

Biophotonics: Fabrication of plasmonic nanostructures for high sensitive biomolecular detection and Surface plasmon resonance (SPR)  detection