Biography
Piran R. Kidambi is an Associate Professor at the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Florida since Fall 2025. Prior to this he was a Harrington Faculty Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin (2024-2025) and Assistant Professor at the Departments of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering as well as Mechanical Engineering, Vanderbilt University (2017-2024). After receiving his PhD from the University of Cambridge (2014), he pursued postdoctoral research at MIT (2014-2017) through a Lindemann Trust Fellowship. Kidambi’s research leverages the intersection between (i) nanomaterial synthesis, (ii) process engineering, and (iii) in situ metrology, to enable bottom-up materials design and synthesis for hydrogen economy, next-generation energy, separations, national security, and healthcare applications. His research has been recognized via several awards and honors including 2024-2045 Donald D. Harrington Faculty Fellowship at UT Austin, ASME Rising Star (2024), AIChE NSEF Young Investigator (2023), DOE Early Career Award (2022), ACS PMSE Young Investigator (2022), NSF CAREER (2020), ECS Toyota Young Investigator (2020), and Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Award (2018), among others as well as several awards to his mentees from high-school to post-doctoral scholars.