Siddharth Suman
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A Senior Scientist at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland — a Finnish state-owned research organisation founded in 1942 — one of Europe's leading research organisations.
The conviction
Since my school days, I have been driven by one quiet, persistent conviction: that science exists to make this planet greener and this world more peaceful.
School
That conviction took its first form as a smokeless chimney in a school project,
Bachelor’s degree
…then as a diesel engine running on biodiesel doped with Cerium oxide nanoparticles during my Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering.
Doctorate
My doctoral research at the Sustainable Energy Research Laboratory, Indian Institute of Technology Patna — a laboratory I helped conceive and build — focused on the thermo-mechanical behaviour of Zircaloy-4 nuclear fuel cladding tubes, contributing directly to safer nuclear reactors.
Postdoc
As a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland, honoured with the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Fellowship, I investigated radiation damage and ageing effects in nuclear reactor pressure vessel materials.
I have grown up with a clear philosophy of contributing to the amelioration of humankind. To accomplish this, I communicate science and connect with the masses to foster scientific temperament and rational thinking. I engage with authorities for solutions to real issues, participate in discussions about social problems, and write about them on various online media platforms. At the same time, far from chaos, I silently strive to dissolve myself in the smile of others through various philanthropic activities.
❝ Science is the art of looking into the eyes of reality and then denying it. ❞