Siva Umapathy, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Siva Umapathy

Date of Birth: 10-Jun-1959

Place of Birth: Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India

Profession: scientist

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Siva Umapathy (born 1959) is the current Director of the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Bhopal.
He is an Indian laser spectroscopist and was the Chair of the Department of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry and a Professor of Instrumentation and Applied Physics at the Indian Institute of Science.
He is known for his studies of molecular dynamics using Raman spectroscopy and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and an elected fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards, in 2004, for his contributions to chemical sciences.