Narayanan Kuthirummal

Interim Dean, School of Engineering, Computing, and Mathematics

NK received his Ph.D. in physics from Banaras Hindu University (Varanasi, India), his M.Sc. in physics with electronics from Cochin University of Science and Technology (Kochi, India) and B.Sc. in physics with math and chemistry from Calicut University (Kozhikode, India). He came to the College of Charleston in 2004, after serving as a Postdoctoral Associate at Brown University and as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Tawain’s Academia Sinica and India’s Center for Cellular & Molecular Biology.

NK is an accomplished teacher-scholar, having earned a Fulbright-Nehru Senior Scholar Award in 2022 as well as the Distinguished Teaching Award from the College of Charleston in 2010. Perhaps, most importantly, he was instrumental in the creation of our university’s engineering programs, serving as the founding director of the engineering program from 2019 to 2021. NK served as chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy for ten years and most recently, as associate dean of School of Sciences, Mathematics and Engineering.

Education

Ph.D. in physics from Banaras Hindu University (Varanasi, India)

M.Sc. in physics with electronics from Cochin University of Science and Technology (Kochi, India)

B.Sc. in physics with math and chemistry from Calicut University (Kozhikode, India). 

Career Highlights

2024 (July) – present: Interim dean, School of Engineering, Computing, and Mathematics, College of Charleston
2024 (January – June): Interim Associate Dean, School of Sciences, Mathematics, and Engineering, College of Charleston
2012 – 2022: Chair, Department of Physics and Astronomy, College of Charleston
2019 – 2022: Founder Director, Engineering Program, College of Charleston
2017 – present: Professor, College of Charleston
2010 – 2017: Associate Professor, College of Charleston
2004 – 2010: Assistant Professor, College of Charleston

Honors and Awards

2022 – 2023 (September – January): Fulbright-Nehru Senior Scholar Award from the United States-India Educational Foundation
2021: Norine Noonan Sustained Achievement Award of the School of Sciences and Mathematics, College of Charleston
2020: Excellence in Collegiate Education and Leadership (ExCEL) Awards: Outstanding Faculty of the Year for the School of Sciences and Mathematics, College of Charleston
2012: Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society
2010: Distinguished Teacher Award, College of Charleston
1984-1986: Merit Scholarship for Outstanding Master of Science Student, Cochin University of Science and Technology