Professor Shantikumar Nair is the Dean of Research at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham and the Director of Amrita Centre for Nanosciences and Molecular Medicine.nnProf. Nair, obtained his B.Tech. degree in Metallurgical Engineering from IIT Bombay in 1976, and his Master of Science and Doctor of Engineering Science in Materials Science and Engineering, from Columbia University, New York, USA, in 1978 and 1983 respectively.