Dr Chandra Sekar Ramanujan is a Principal Licensing and Ventures Manager at Oxford University Innovation. Dr Ramanujan oversees projects from the Materials, Engineering Science and Chemistry Departments that have an intersection with the Life Sciences. Specialising in complex negotiations involving multiple stakeholders and agreements.
He has spun out numerous companies for the University, including Oxford Brain Diagnostics, Fluorok and RegMetrics. He has represented the University on the boards of Seloxium, HexR and RegMetrics.
He is passionate about climate change and represents Oxford University on Matcelerate Zero – a consortium of universities and companies working to accelerate Net Zero materials solutions. He also represents Oxford on the TenU Data Commercialisation working group.
Chandra also ran the flagship Oxford Innovation Society, changing the business model and establishing new categories for startups and small businesses.
Prior to joining OUI, Chandra was the Senior NTT Bionanoscience Research Fellow at Oxford University, working with Nippon Telephone and Telegraph Basic Research Laboratories in Japan on research which generated papers and patents in biotechnology. Chandra is from Singapore, where he worked in the semiconductor electronics sector. He has led teams of engineers and technicians on projects spanning Industrial R&D, Product Engineering and Manufacturing. Chandra has a DPhil/PhD in Materials from the University of Oxford under the tutelage of Professor Sir John Pethica. He also has a Masters in Materials Science and Engineering and a Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in the labs established by Prof John B Goodenough.
