Dr V Narayanan, who has been appointed the next ISRO chief, is currently Director of ISRO's Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre (LPSC). He's a native of Tamil Nadu's Kanyakumari. Dr Narayanan is alumnus of IIT-Kharagpur. He completed MTech in Cryogenic Engineering with first rank in 1989 and PhD in Aerospace Engineering from the institute in 2001. He joined ISRO in 1984.