Dr. Perumal Elumalai received his PhD from Indian Institute of Science Bangalore. He had his post-doctoral research at Kyushu University, Japan for more than six years. He was a recipient of a prestigious JSPS fellowship (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science fellowship). He has won special recognition award for Young Ceramist by Ceramic Society of Japan for his contribution to ceramics applications. He served as HoD of Green Energy Technology, Madanjeet School of Green Energy Technologies, Pondicherry University during 2019-2023. Presently, he is continuing as full Professor at Department of Green Energy Technology. He has published more than 100 research papers in reputed international journals in the field including two books & chapters, and holds seven patents. Under his supervision, 10 PhD scholars and more than 50 MTech students got graduated. Currently, his h-index is 36. His research work concentrates on batteries, supercapacitors, supercapattery and fuel cells.
Very recently, he has successfully fabricated practically large (pouch-type) supercapattery and Lithium-Air Battery device that exhibited high specific energy and high
power. Such a fine works have been recently published in international Journals, New Journal of Chemistry and ChemElectroChem with cover featured. This work has been also recently covered several national news media such as The Hindu and The New Indian Expresses. His group @ Pondicherry University concentrates on material generation to laboratory proto-type devices with TRL level at least 4 and above. Recently, he been in various national committees such as member of DST-IISc’s energy storage consortium.