Dr. Geethamma V. G.

Asst. Prof. in Polymer Engineering 

University College of Engineering, Mahatma Gandhi University

Muttom, Thodupuzha

Kerala, India- 685 587

 Education/ Research

• • Fulbright-Nehru Senior Research Fellowship in the Dept. of Materials Science & Engg, University of Illinois (UC), USA, on Soft Lithography and Nanopatterning

  • Royal Society Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the Cavendish Lab, University of Cambridge, UK  

  • Ph.D. in the School of Chemical Sciences, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala, See my thesis here. 

  • M.Tech. Polymer Technology, Dept. of Polymer Science & Rubber Technology, Cochin University of Science & Technology, Kerala.

Popular Science Book

• 1. The book is entitled “Polymer-Jeevanu, Jeevithathinu, Paristitikku”, DC Books, India (2007).

  2. The title means Polymer for Life and Environment.

  3. See the blogs

  4. Click the titles on the right margin on each blog to read the old articles.    

  5.                  Black Sides

  6.                  Rubbers and Plastics

  7.                  ശ്വാസത്തിന്റെ പ്രതിദ്ധ്വനി

     See the video

    Read the articles

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       കൂകൂകൂകൂ........Mar 2012

      ആ അദൃശ്യ ചൂരല്‍ ഇല്ലായിരുന്നെങ്കില്‍, 2011

See the google scholar

Selected Publications in Journals

• Geethamma V. G. and Sampath V., Rubber as an aid to teach thermodynamics, The discovery by a blind scientist, Resonance: Journal of Science Education, Feb 2010, p 217-238

• Geethamma V G, Kazuki Shigeta and John A Rogers, It’s About Making Surfaces Invisible Moth Eye, Antireflective Surfaces, and Soft Lithography, Resonance: Journal of Science Education, April 2018, p 423-438

•  Geethamma V. G., Nandakumar Kalarikkal and S. Thomas, Polymer products and environment, The Economic Times Polymers,December 2014- January 2015, p 54-56

• Geethamma V. G., R. Asaletha, Nandakumar Kalarikkal and S. Thomas, Vibration and Sound Damping in Polymers, Resonance: Journal of Science Education, Sept 2014, p 821-833

  • Geethamma V. G. and S. Thomas, Why does a Rubber Ball Bounce? Molecular Origins of Rubber Elasticity, Resonance, Journal of Science Education, Vol. 2, No. 4, 48, 1997

Awards

• Fulbright Alumni Award supported by the United States- India Educational Foundation (USIEF), New Delhi, to conduct a seminar on Polymers and Environment, 2013

  • Young Scientist Award winner in Indian Science Congress, 1995

  • Young Scientist Award winner in Kerala Science Congress, 1994