Dr V Natarajan, Scientist 'G' 
Head, Materials Sciences & Engineering Group &
Project Director, MEMS Regional Centre, DRDO
Govt. of India, Ministry of Defence, 
Defence Research & Development Organisation,
Naval Physical & Oceanographic Laboratory
Kochi

Academic Qualifications:
Graduation: Coimbatore Institute of Technology
Post Graduation: College of Engineering, Guindy
PhD: Crystal Growth Centre, Anna University
	
Positions held:
Joined DRDO, Solid State Physics Laboratory in 1988to 1993, Scientist 'B' and at NPOL, Naval Physical & Oceanographic Laboratory, since 1994.

Brief resume of the work carried out / scientific achievements:
a)  Solid State Physics Laboratory
	Actively involved in the material development programme for Infrared Detectors for thermal imager.

b) Naval Physical & Oceanographic Laboratory
		
1.	Underwater Acoustics  - 
-	Worked in the area of underwater acoustics in characterising and evaluation of transducers and materials from 1994 - June 2004.  Established Materials & Transducers - Simulated Test Centre. 
-	Designed and developed Near-Field array for under water acoustic evaluation of Transducers under simulated conditions.
-	Head, Acoustics Measurement Division from July 1997 - June 2004.

Post Doctoral Fellow at Centre for Engineering of Electronic and Acoustic Materials and Devices at Pennsylvania State University, USA during 2002.  
		
2.	MEMS devices 
-	Established Clean room Class 100 & 1000 with all facilities and utilities
-	Developed CTD sensor, MOSFET Hydrophone, Acoustic Imaging Sensor, Polymer FET, Wide bandwidth capacitive accelerometer & Acoustic Vector Sensor.
 
3.	Smart Materials & Devices
-	Associated in the development of MagnetoRheological fluid based devices – smart brakes, dampers and MagnetoRheological elastomer based low frequency Transducer.  
-	Designed and fabricated Magnetostrictive low frequency transducers using Giant Magnetostrictive Material.  


Patent: 
Design & Development of Low Frequency Projector using MRElastomer. (Indian Patent).


Publications:

-	Published more than 60 papers in Journals and conferences. 
-	A chapter entitled “MEMS Sensors for Underwater Applications” in a book “Micro and Smart Devices and System”, Springer, July 2014. 

-	DRDO AWARD – "Laboratory Scientist of the Year 2009". 
-	DRDO Science Day Oration Award 2009
-	Member: Indian Defence Delegation to Singapore
-	Membgr: Naval Research Board

Life Member:
	Indian Association for Crystal Growth - IACG
	International Microelectronics And Packaging Society - IMAPS
	Institute of Smart Materials Structures & Systems – ISSS
	Materials Research Society of India - MRSI
Acoustical Society of India - ASI