Rate My Professor Siva Karuturi

Professor Siva Karuturi serves as a Professor in the ANU School of Engineering and holds the position of Associate Director (International), where he leads strategies to expand global partnerships, especially in the Asia-Pacific, and contributes to curriculum mapping, articulation agreements, and research training with international institutions. He is a leading researcher in electrochemical energy systems. Karuturi earned his PhD in Materials Engineering from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. Among his accolades are the Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (2015-2018) and the ongoing ARC Mid-Career Industry Fellowship. He has mentored over 50 individuals, including higher degree by research students and research staff, and has driven R&D projects amassing more than $15 million in funding, bridging fundamental science to practical applications.

Karuturi's research specializations include electrochemical systems, electrolysis, electrorefining, hydrogen production, renewable energy, catalysis, and solar energy conversion. His work emphasizes electrochemical technologies that enable sustainable development by converting renewable energy into storable fuels like green hydrogen and recovering valuable resources, thus facilitating the decarbonization of energy and industry. With a prolific output of 64 journal articles, 9 review articles, 3 book chapters, and 1 conference paper, his contributions have had substantial impact. Prominent publications are: "Exceptionally Low-Coordinated Bismuth-Oxygen Vacancy Defect Clusters for Generating Black In2O3 Photocatalysts with Superb CO2 Reduction Performance" in ACS Catalysis (2025), "Over 14% unassisted water splitting driven by immersed perovskite/Si tandem photoanode with Ni-based catalysts" in Materials Today Energy (2025), "Advanced electron paramagnetic resonance in chemical energy conversion: current status and future potential" in Energy and Environmental Science (2024), "AlGaAs as an Alternative Solar Water Splitting Material: Insights into Performance, Stability, and Future Directions" in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces (2024), and "Enhancing the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction Performance of Solution-Corroded NiMo via Plasma Modification" in Chemistry of Materials (2024). His research has notably contributed to achieving world-record efficiencies in direct solar-to-hydrogen production.