Purnesh Seegopaul

Purnesh has worked with advanced materials for over 25 years, directly involved with energy and clean technologies, nanotechnology, semiconductors, thin films and coatings, catalysts, powder metallurgy, and manufacturing technologies.

Prior to Pangaea, his senior management and technology positions covered manufacturing scale-up and commercialization of nanomaterials at Nanodyne, technology management and business development activities in North America at Umicore and engineering and quality management at Materials Research Corporation. He has collaborated with both academic and industrial research groups on various advanced materials development programs, served on the advisory boards of the Marcel-Dekker Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology and many advanced materials and clean tech conferences, published widely and has nine US patents. He received his Ph.D. degree in Chemistry from the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia and completed his post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Delaware.