Rate My Professor Sivakumar Manickam

Professor Sivakumar Manickam is a Chemical Engineer holding a PhD Tech in Chemical Engineering and a Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education (PGCHE) from the UK. With over 25 years of experience in the field, he specializes in the process engineering of nanomaterials, especially nanopharmaceuticals. A major focus of his research is the development of cavitation-based reactors for the production of technologically important nanomaterials, greener extraction of natural products, water and wastewater treatment, pharmaceutical nanoemulsions, and novel carbon nanomaterials for biosensors enabling earlier diagnosis of cancer and diabetes. His academic interests include nanotechnology, process engineering, cavitation, nanoemulsions, ultrasound, pharmaceutical nanotechnology, sonochemistry, chemical engineering, nanomedicine, nanoparticles, environmental engineering, ultrasonics, green chemistry, materials engineering, and extraction of natural products. He teaches Biochemical Engineering (EP3304), Energy Engineering and Planning (EP4206), and Chemical Product Design (EP4307) at Universiti Teknologi Brunei.

In the Faculty of Engineering at Universiti Teknologi Brunei, he serves as Professor Dr and Director of the Centre for Green Technology and Sustainability Research. Prior to this, he was Associate Professor at the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus from November 2007 to September 2020. Sivakumar Manickam is Executive Editor of Ultrasonics Sonochemistry (Elsevier Q1 Journal, IF 8), Vice-President of the board of the Asia Oceania Sonochemical Society, Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (UK), and Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC). He has received the Teaching Excellence Award (2023) and Research Excellence Award (2023) from Universiti Teknologi Brunei, the IAAM Scientist Award by the International Association of Advanced Materials at the European Assembly of Advanced Materials Congress in Stockholm, Sweden (August 2022), and has been listed in the top 2% most cited scientists by the Stanford List from 2020 onwards. Key publications include 'A Facile Scalable Strategy for Constructing Novel Robust Self-Healing Glove Utilizing Nanoreinforced Thermoreversible Carboxylated Nitrile Butadiene Rubber' (Advanced Functional Materials, 2024), 'Immunosensors in food, health, environment, and agriculture: a review' (Environmental Chemistry Letters, 2024), 'Recent advances in the use of MXenes for photoelectrochemical sensors' (Chemical Engineering Journal, 2024), 'Mass transfer study on noncovalent adsorption and desorption of soluble phenolics by plant cell wall materials for green purification' (Chemical Engineering Journal, 2024), and 'Ultrasonic liquid exfoliation for producing graphene materials from rice stem: Investigating cellular components and functionalities' (Ultrasonics Sonochemistry, 2024). He leads short courses on nanotechnology, research proposal writing, and water/wastewater treatment techniques.