Sim2Mat Lightning Talk - Vijay Narasimhan

Vijay Narasimhan is the Director of R&D Collaborations for EMD Electronics, a business of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, one of the world's largest and most respected chemical and materials companies. In this role, Vijay initiates and drives high impact initiatives in cross-cutting areas, including deploying digital tools for sustainable materials development. Vijay has a BASc in Computer Engineering from the University of Ottawa, an MPhil in Nanotechnology Enterprise from the University of Cambridge, and a PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from Stanford University. He joined Intermolecular in 2015 as a Process and Research Engineer. Vijay has broad technical expertise, with contributions in antenna design, renewable energy, nanoscale optical materials, rural electricity access, wet chemical etchants, thin film ALD ferroelectrics and chalcogenides, and applied quantum computing.