Siddharth Suman

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. That conviction took its first form as a smokeless chimney in a school project, then as a diesel engine running on biodiesel doped with Cerium oxide nanoparticles during my Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering. 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. 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.