IIT Madras Prof Thalappil Pradeep wins international Eni Award
IIT Madras Prof Thalappil Pradeep wins international Eni Award
Chennai
IIT Madras Prof Thalappil Pradeep has been conferred with the international prize by the Italian energy company Eni.
Thalappil Pradeep will be conferred with the honour for developing sustainable and affordable nano-scale materials for removing toxic contaminants from water.
The prestigious, Eni Award is considered among the top global honours for scientific research in energy and environment.
It is worth noting that Nobel laureates, Sir Harold W Kroto, Alan Heeger and Theodor Wolfgang Hänsch as well as Bharat Ratna Prof CNR Rao, have been conferred with the award in the past.
Pradeep has discovered advanced sustainable and affordable nanoscale materials for the removal of toxic contaminants from water.
The discovered technologies are both sustainable and cost-effective and have been implemented as drinking water solutions benefitting 1.3 million people in India every day.
Eni Awards are given in three categories; Energy Transition, Energy Frontiers and Advanced Environmental Solutions.
Yu Huang, University of California (Los Angeles, USA) and Jeffrey R. Long, University of California (Berkeley, USA) were given the award for the first category.
Matthew Rosseinsky, University of Liverpool (UK) won the award for the second category. Prof. Pradeep has been awarded for Advanced Environmental Solutions.
Commenting on the honour, Pradeep said, “I am grateful to the large team of students, associates and implementing partners whose intense efforts made this work possible.
The country and my institution gave me everything.”
