Dr. Vasanthan teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in general, physical and polymer chemistry. He received a Ph.D. in chemistry in 1993 from the City University of New York, an M.A in chemistry in 1990 from City College of New York and a B.Sc. (Hon) in chemistry in 1986 from the University of Jaffna in Sri Lanka. Dr. Vasanthan completed his post-doctoral training at North Carolina State University (1993-1995) with Professor Alan Tonelli in the area of fiber and polymer science. He worked as senior scientist at AlliedSignal and TRI/Princeton from 1995 until 2004 when he joined the faculty of the Chemistry Department at the Brooklyn Campus, where he currently serves as professor.