Ravishankar Narayanan (born 1970) is an Indian materials engineer and a professor at the Materials Research Centre of the Indian Institute of Science. He is known for his studies on Nanostructured Materials and is an elected fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards for his contributions to Engineering Sciences in 2012. Biography N. Ravishankar, born on 12 February 1970, did his graduate studies in metallurgical engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Varanasi from where he earned a BTech in 1991. Subsequently, he shifted his base to Bengaluru to continue his studies at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and earned his master's degree (MSc) in 1993 and followed it up with a doctoral degree (PhD) in 1998. During this period, he did research at Toyohashi University of Technology, as an exchange program scholar, in 1996. His postdoctoral studies were at the laboratory of C. Barry Carter of the University of Minnesota from 1998 to 2002 and on his return to India, he joined IISc as a member of faculty at the Materials Research Centre (MRC). At MRC, he serves as a professor and heads the Functional Inorganic Nanostructures Laboratory. Legacy Ravishankar's researches have been focusing on the bottom-up paradigm for the synthesis and assembly of nanostructures. He is known to have done extensive work on the template free synthesis of nanowires and shape selection of low-dimensional nanostructured metals which has applications in the development of diagnostic and sensing devices. He led a team of scientists who developed, for the first time, ultrathin gold nanowires, with diameter less than 2 nanometres and high angle boundaries, for use as reaction catalysts for cells. They have also developed a solvothermal process integrating synthesis and assembly. He has documented his researches by way of several articles; Google Scholar and ResearchGate, online article repositories of scientific articles, have listed many of them. He is a member of the Solar Energy Research Institute for India and the United States (SERIIUS), an Indo-US joint initiative for the development of solar energy technologies. He has also been a member of the Advisory Committee of the International Conference on Metals and Materials Research, organized by the Indian Institute of Metals, in association