Faculty Bio

Dr. Sivadas V. comes to Amrita with national and international experience and reputation. He received his Ph. D. from IIT Bombay, specializing in Transverse Turbulent Jets utilizing optical diagnostic techniques. He was a Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) Fellow while at IIT.

In 1991, he worked as a German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Fellow at the German Aerospace Research Establishment (DLR)-Gottingen. This was followed by a Portuguese Science and Technology Fellowship in 2000 in the area of sprays and liquid film disintegration at the Insituto Superior Technico (IST) in Lisbon, Portugal under the European Commission DIME (Dynamics of Institution and Markets in Europe) program. The project focused on direct injection spray engine processes and mechanisms to improve performance. As part of this project, he participated in a short-course on the latest advances in Spray Technology at Carnegie Mellon University, USA under Professor Norman Chigier.

Before joining Amrita, Dr. Vayalakkara worked at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore teaching courses in Mathematics and Fluid Mechanics and doing research in Surface Wave Dynamics under the Singapore-Stanford Partnership (SSP) with Stanford University, USA.

He is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and has been featured in Who’s Who in the World and Who’s Who in Finance and Industry.