Welcome Prof. Sabu Thomas to be the Editor-in-Chief of Non-Metallic Material Science

2021-12-14

Prof. Sabu Thomas is one of India’s most renowned scientists known for his contributions in polymer science and Nanotechnology. 

He has a notable h-index of 116 and has accumulated over 63,000 citations. Recently, he has been ranked 114th in the list of the world’s best scientists that has been compiled by Stanford University in the US. He figures in the list as the second-best scientist in India in the field of polymer science. This year he was also selected for the DST Nanomission award 2020. He received Honorary Professorship from Siberian Federal University on May 2020. Last year he was honoured with C.N.R Rao Award Prize Lecture in Advanced Materials by Materials Research Society of India (MRSI). He was elected as the Foreign Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences (EurASc)-2019. He had also won the 6th contest of “mega-grants” organized by the Government of the Russian Federation designed to support research projects implemented under the supervision of the world’s leading scientists -2017.Recently he was honored with Bailey Medal Award . In January 2021 Prof Sabu Thomas was awarded the Kairali Life time Research Award 2021 by Kerala Government. As per the new report of  German based “European Science Evaluation Centre” Prof Sabu Thomas is ranked 1st in the Kerala state 19th in the Country and 236th in Asia.