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Latha Venkataraman received her Bachelor’s degree in Physics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1993 where she did her undergraduate thesis with Prof. Mildred Dresselhaus calculating the phonon modes of carbon nanotubes. She then moved to Harvard University and obtained her Ph. D. in 1999 working under the guidance of Prof. Charles Lieber investigating electronic properties of one-dimensional systems. She worked as a research scientist at Vytran Corporation from 1999 to 2002. In 2003, she joined Columbia University as a research scientist in the NSF funded Nanoscience and Engineering Center. She started her independent career as an assistant professor in the Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics at Columbia University in 2007, was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 2012 and Professor in 2016.
She was named Lawrence Gussman Professor of Applied Physics and Professor of Chemistry in 2019. Latha Venkataraman served as Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs at Columbia University from January 2019 through July 2022. Prominent awards she has received include the Alexander von Humboldt Research Award, the National Science Foundation Career Award, Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering, and the Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship in Chemistry. Latha Venkataraman currently serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of the American Chemical Society, Chemical Science and the Journal of Physical Chemistry Au. She is also an Associate Editor at Nano Letters. Latha Venkataraman moved to the Institute of Science and Technology Austria in 2025 where she is a full Professor at the Institute. |
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