Dr Suresh C. Pillai obtained his PhD in  Nanotechnology from Trinity College Dublin and then performed his postdoctoral research at California Institute of Technology (Caltech), USA. Upon completion of this appointment, he returned to Trinity College Dublin as a Research Fellow before joining CREST-DIT as a Senior Scientist in April 2004. He joined Institute of Technology Sligo in 2013 as a senior lecturer in nanotechnology and currently heads the Nanotechnology and Bio-Engineering Research Group. 

He is the recipient of ‘Boyle-Higgins Award -2019’ from the Institute of Chemistry Ireland. He is an elected fellow of the UK’s Royal Microscopical Society (FRMS) and the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (FIMMM). He has also completed an executive MBA from Dublin City University.