Interview of Prof. S. Sivaram, wherein he discusses his mentorship experiences – from his days as a student at IITK where he was mentored by the Chemistry faculty, to IPCL where he was involved in setting up India’s first large polyolefin manufacturing industry to his tenure in NCL, where he was part of the leadership.

 

About the participants: Prof. S. Sivaram is currently INSA Senior Scientist and Honorary Professor at IISER-Pune. Before this, he was the Director of the CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory in Pune. Sutirth Dey is professor of Biology at IISER-Pune and Guruswamy Kumaraswamy is professor of Chemical Engineering at IIT-Bombay. 

 

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