Early Life and Education
Ajayan's early education was in Kerala, India. Till the sixth standard, he studied in a government school in Kodungallur, after which he moved to Loyola School, Thiruvananthapuram, India, a high school he has credited for making a strong impact on him, and for making him "realize that learning is the most exciting thing one can ever befriend". He graduated from Loyola in 1977. In 1985, Ajayan graduated at the top of his class with a B.Tech. degree in Metallurgical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. In 1989, he earned a PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. Afterwards he spent three years as a post-doc at NEC corporation, Japan, two years as a researcher at the Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, Orsay, France, and one year at the Max-Planck Institute fur Metallforschung, Stuttgart, Germany.
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