Sri Lankan born Ranga Dias, an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Rochester, has been named in Time Magazine’sNext 100 List’ that recognizes 100 emerging leaders who are shaping the future of entertainment, health, politics, business and more.
Dias, who came up with a solution that could pave the way for future innovations: a room-temperature superconductor that’s super-dense instead of super-cold, is among the 19 New Innovators of the Time Magazine’s Next 100 List. Time magazine on February 17 unveiled its 2021 cohort of the “TIME100 Next” list, featuring the year’s emerging leaders.
Dias graduated from the Department of Physics, Colombo University, Sri Lanka and moved to Washington, USA in 2007 for Ph.D. work at Washington State University in the field of extreme condensed matter physics.
