G. K. Surya Prakash
G. K. Surya Prakash (born 1953) is a Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science and holder of the George A. and Judith A. Olah Nobel Laureate Chair in Hydrocarbon Chemistry at the Department of Chemistry at the
University of Southern California. He serves as the Director of the Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute, where he maintains his prominent research lab. He also served as the Chairman of the Chemistry Department for four years between 2017 and 2021. He received a B.Sc. (Hons) from
Bangalore University in 1972, a M.Sc. from
IIT Madras in 1974 and a Ph.D. from
University of Southern California in 1978 under the direction of
George Olah, where he worked on characterizing stable
carbocations in superacids. He also sits on several editorial boards of major scientific journals.
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