DR. KURUVILA VARUGHESE

Kuruvila Varughese (Pokkattu Vadakkethil) is the Global Engineering Manager of DuPont (USA), one of the largest chemical companies in the world. He is an internationally recognised corrosion and coating expert.

Varughese finished his high school education at NSS High School Kudassanad with the first SSLC Batch, scoring first rank among all NSS High Schools in Alappuzha District.

He finished his B.Sc. from Pandalam NSS College, and obtained the M.Sc. from the University of Bombay. He started his career with Bhabha Atomic Research Center (BARC) Bombay as a nuclear scientist. He is one of the chemists of the Control Laboratory which developed the first nuclear device, tested in the desert of Pokhran on 18 May 1974. Varughese moved to USA in 1977 and joined the Forsyth Research Center in Boston. Later he moved to Houston and joined the Rice University as a research scientist and PhD student. He also served in Saudi Arabia as the Research and Technical Director of AQPCT in Dammam.

Varughese is a Gold medallist in the All India Sunday School competition of Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church (1966). He won the Houston Paints and Coating Society Research award (1984). One of his inventions in connection with the PhD thesis work related petroleum production received a patent from the US Government. During his Doctoral work he developed a kit for oil field analysis, which is being marketed by Lamotte Chemical Company in the USA. He has over fifty published scientific research papers and technical articles to his credit and is co-authoring an engineering book to be published in the USA.

Starting from his school days, Varughese held several elected positions. He was the elected Secretary of Literary and Debating Society of Pandalam NSS College (1966) and elected Secretary of the Chemical Society (1969). He was elected recently as Chairman of the National Association of Corrosion Engineers International (NACE) Task Group. This Group consists of 12 permanent members including, Brazil, Canada, China, Finland, France, Germany, Holland, Indonesia, Iran, Mexico, Qatar, UK, and the USA; over 100 countries including India are represented as sub-members.

KOSS Global is proud of Shri. Kuruvila Varughese for the honour he brought to us and wishes him continued success and Godly Blessings!

Varughese lives in Houston with his wife Kunjumol and three daughters: Dr. Elizabeth, Sheeba and Sheila.