Dr. Balamurugan Thirumalraj earned his Bachelor's and Master's degrees from Thiagarajar College, affiliated with Madurai Kamaraj University in Tamil Nadu, India. He completed his Ph.D. at the National Taipei University of Technology in Taiwan. Following that, Dr. Bala pursued postdoctoral research at the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology and Kookmin University in the Republic of Korea. He is a Research Scientist at Khalifa University in Abu Dhabi, UAE.
Dr. Bala's research focuses on the interdisciplinary fields of material science and nanotechnology, particularly two-dimensional nanomaterials and their functional applications in areas such as sensors, electrocatalysis, energy storage and harvesting devices, and photocatalysis. Throughout his career, he has received numerous awards, published US patents, contributed to book chapters, and authored over 70 research papers in prestigious journals, including JACS, Nature Communications, and ACS Nano.
