THANJAVUR
Kannan Veeraraghavan, a final B.Tech. Mechanical Engineering student of SASTRA Deemed University, has been awarded the Cambridge India Ramanujan Scholarship for pursuing Ph.D. programme at Cambridge University.
The bilateral scholarship supported by Department of Science and Technology, and Cambridge Trust provides composite tuition fee waiver and an annual allowance of UK £ 16,800.
The scholarship programme is given for pursuing research in the fields of astronomy, cancer research, chemical engineering, chemistry, computer science, engineering, materials science and metallurgy, mathematics, pharmacology, plant sciences and physics.
Mr.Kannan will be pursuing his Ph.D. in Engineering at Robinson College at Prof.N.Swaminathan’s Hopkinson Lab on cyclone intensity modelling. Mr.Kannan was one among the 20 students from India to be selected for the annual scholarship, said S.Vaidhyasubramaniam, Dean-Planning and Development, SASTRA Deemed University, in a press release.