Vivek Poonthiyil

• Set up a lab for osmosis testing of polymer balloons from scratch • Established both theoretical and experimental methods for osmosis testing • Handled different projects – established both testing and validation methods • Responsible for maintaining the communication between the teams in Germany and in Israel

• Managed three projects and published three high quality journal articles (including a book chapter) on carbohydrate synthesis as first author • Supervised two master students in their master thesis • Supervised bachelor laboratory practical work • Represented my research group by giving a talk in Third SFB-conference: Molecular Switches, Plön, Germany (27-30, August 2017)

• Published four high quality journal articles on carbohydrate-capped nanoparticles as first author • Developed gold nanoparticle-based sensor and demonstrated their application in detecting toxic viral particles • Won second prize in the student/postdoc talks in the MacDiarmid institute student & postdoc symposium held in Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand • Won Ralph H. Earle Jr. seminar prize for the best review seminar presentation held in University of Canterbury, New Zealand

• Awarded University of Canterbury doctoral scholarship (2013-2016) • *Secured all India 136th rank in the Graduate Aptitude Test for Engineering (GATE), India (March 2012) • *Secured all India 30th rank in the national eligibility test for junior research fellowship conducted by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India (December 2011)