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General Chairs
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Dr Baldev Raj, Director-NIAS, President (PSG, INAE, IIW, ICAETS), India more details...
Dr.Baldev Raj has rendered yeoman service to the Department of Atomic Energy over a fortytwo year period until 2011. As Distinguished Scientist and Director, Indira Gandhi Centre of Atomic Research, Kalpakkam, he galvanized a whole community of staff, scientists and engineers for advancing several challenging technologies, especially those related to the fast breeder test reactor (FBTR) and the prototype fast breeder reactor (PFBR).
He has nurtured and grown excellent schools in nuclear materials and mechanics, non-destructive evaluation, corrosion, welding, separation sciences & technology and robotics & automation. These schools have delivered science based technological solutions to strategic sectors, industries and have created strong groups in leading educational institutions. His unique accomplishment has been breaking barriers between academia-research and research-industry in order to realize tangible and significant outcomes in high technology domains.
Dr.Baldev Raj has played a pioneering role in mastering the technology of complex post-irradiation examination (PIE) to achieve a burn up of 165 GWd/tonne of Pu-rich carbide. Dr.Raj has pioneered application of NDE for basic research using acoustic and electromagnetic techniques in a variety of materials and components. He is also responsible for realising societal applications of NDE in areas related to cultural heritage and medical diagnosis. His widely acclaimed contributions relate to understanding deformation using acoustic and magnetic Barkhausen methods, studies on stability and functional characterization of ferrofluids, corrosion mechanisms and specific sensors for high sensitivity and relevant measurements in a wide spectrum of technologies. His contributions to sodium science, materials development for fast spectrum and fusion reactors, structural mechanics and integrity of high performance components, safety of sodium cooled fast reactors, reprocessing of unique Pu-rich carbide fuel, etc have earned for India a leadership position in these fields in the world. He has used knowledge thus gained to address technology-intensive problems in aerospace and defence.
He was elected President of International Committee on NDT in 1992. He is also Past President of The Indian Institution of Metals, Indian Institution of Welding and Indian Society of NDT. He is currently President, International Institute of Welding, President, Indian National Academy of Engineering and President-Research PSG Institutions, Coimbatore.
Dr. Baldev Raj is a Fellow of Indian National Science Academy, Indian Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Sciences, India and Indian National Academy of Engineering, The Third World Academy of Sciences, German Academy of Sciences, International Nuclear Energy Academy and Academia NDT, International. He is Hon.Fellow, International Medical Sciences Academy.
Author of more than 800 publications in refereed journals & books, 60 books, including special journal volumes, contributions to encyclopedia and handbooks, as well as owner of 21 patents, he has been recognized by way of awards, honours, plenary and keynote talks, editorial positions and assignments in esteemed national and international fora in more than 30 countries. He is editor-in-chief of three series of books. He has been conferred Distinguished Alumnus Award of Indian Institute of Science, Distinguished Materials Scientist Award of Materials Research Society of India, National Metallurgist Award of Ministry of Steel, Government of India and Presidential honour Padma Shri.
Above all he has interacted with thousands of scientists and mentored hundreds of children, students, scientists and technologists and has inspired them to carry out scientific and technical activities with a high degree of professionalism and, at the same time, following exemplary ethical practices. -
Professor Changhee Lee, President (KIMM, KWJS, KSLP, KTSA), S.Korea more details...
Professor Changhee Lee teaches materials science & engineering at the College of Engineering of Hanyang University. He received a B.A. (1982) from Hanyang University, an M.S. (1985) and a Ph.D. (1988) in Metallurgical Engineering from University of Tennessee. Before joining the Hanyang faculty in 1995, Professor Lee had been on the faculty of University of Toronto as lecturer and senior researcher of the POSCO and Research Institute of Industrial Science & Technology.
Professor Lee has taught various courses such as Phase transformations in metals and alloys, structure and properties of engineering alloys, mechanics of materials, welding metallurgy, surface modification, etc. He has also authored more than 270 articles in leading academic journals such as Acta Materialia, Applied Physics Letters, Korean Journal of Metals and Materials. His research interests include welding metallurgy such as modeling for prediction of microstructure of HAZ in weld metal and surface modification using various spray coating technologies with computer simulations.
He is the President of the Korean Institute of Metals and Materials, President of The Korean welding and joining society, President of Korean society of laser processing, President of Korea thermal spray association. -
Professor M Muruganant, MoS Chair Professor, India more details...
General Vice-Chairs
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Professor Dominique Bernard, Research Director, ICMCB-CNRS, France more details...
Dr Dominique Bernard is the research director and scientific leader at ICMCB-CNRS. Dr Bernard research interests includes X-ray computed micro tomography (XCMT) to characterise 3D microstructure of multi materials, to understand and quantify their modifications in time and to perform realistic numerical simulations of the coupled phenomenon occurring during those modifications. The group that he heads covers a domain going from data acquisition (using synchrotron or micro focus laboratory micro tomograph), data treatment (artefacts correction, filtering, 3D reconstruction, 3D registration) and data analysis (3D visualisation, 3D image analysis) to numerical modelling and numerical models development (change of scale methods, effective properties calculation, direct numerical modelling at the pore scale). Through a large number of industrial and academic projects, a great variety of materials have been studied: polymer foams under dynamic loading, aluminium alloys during solidification, ceramics during sintering, concrete during leaching, carbonate rocks during reactive percolation, ferroelectric composites.
Research at ICMCB mainly concerns chemistry, physico-chemistry and physics of materials. The objective is to conceive, prepare, process and characterize materials in order to discover, control and optimize specific functionalities linked to the intrinsic qualities of the materials but also to surfaces and interfaces attributes. All scales from molecules, nano materials and mono crystals to massive multi-materials are considered. At ICMCB a large variety of physical, physico-chemical and chemical techniques of characterization are operational. Modelling, numerical simulation and visualisation are taking an increasing place in the research projects in close relationship with experiments. ICMCB is a multidisciplinary institute having strong partnership with physicists, geologists, biochemists and physicians in France and abroad. -
Dr V S Arunachalam, Chairman, CSTEP, India more details...
For over four decades, Dr. Arunachalam has made significant contributions to science and
engineering of materials, as well as building institutions and industries for harnessing
technology. His research in pressure sintering, analytical modelling of mechanical behaviour
of two-phase materials and physical metallurgy of titanium alloys were all pioneering and
continue to be relevant. Equally, his work in applied fields is also of high calibre. Working
with his colleagues at Defence Metallurgical Research Laboratory he developed aircraft
brakes for jet fighters and armour for battle tanks and military vehicles. Both these are under
large scale production.
He has over 100 publications to his credit and co-edited major volumes on Alloy Design, Progress in Materials Science, Advances in Powder Metallurgy and on Titanium. He is a Distinguished Service Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh where he initiated and led a number of research projects supported by the Rockefeller Foundation, the Sloan Foundation and the United Nations Foundation. He is also on the Editorial Board of many journals including MRS Bulletin and on the International Board of Advisors of universities and foundations. He continues be an Honorary Professor of Engineering at University of Warwick in Great Britain. He has lectured at a number of universities, research institutes and conferences.
As the first metallurgist to be appointed as Scientific Advisor Defence Minister of India, Dr. Arunachalam restructured the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) to address major hardware development programmes. From 1982, for over a decade, he served five Prime ministers and ten defense ministers of India, including Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi and Mr. Narasimha Rao, as their Defence Scientific Advisor and Secretary, Department of Defence Research and Development. It was during his tenure, major programs on guided missiles like Agni and Prithvi, aircraft programs like Tejas (LCA) and radars like Rajendra were initiated.
Dr. Arunachalam advised the Indian government on the definition, assessment and review of a number of major technological and societal programs such as optical fiber communications for India, development of indigenous iron and steel technologies, scientific and technological missions for the country to eradicate illiteracy, infant mortality and other deprivations, and graduate education in Engineering. He was a member of the University Grants Commission, Scientific Advisory Committee to the Cabinet and Core Group of the Secretaries of the Government of India. For a number of years, he was also a chairman of two large public sector corporations, Bharat Dynamics. Ltd. and Mishra Dhatu Nigam Ltd, India's only advanced metals and alloys manufacturer, and the Aeronautical Research and Development Board (ARDB), the highest body for overseeing aeronautical research in India. He is a Past President and a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering, the Indian Institute of Metals and the Aeronautical Society of India. He is a Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy, National Academy of Sciences and the Indian Academy of Science. He is also the first Indian to be elected as a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, U.K.
Included among his numerous awards and honors are Padma Vibhushan (high civilian honor given by the President of India) in 1990, Padma Bhushan in 1985, The Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Engineering Sciences, The Vasvik Award for Materials Science and Engineering, The Om Prakash Bhasin Award, The FICCI Gold Medal for Technology, The Platinum Medal of the Indian Institute of Metals, The Tata Gold Medal and the first Kothari Gold Medal from the Indian Science Congress. He was the recipient of Lifetime Achievement Award from the Ministry of Steel and Indian Institute of Metals and also the Brahm Prakash Medal of The Indian National Science Academy. He has received honorary doctorates from various Indian universities including a more recent one from Visvesvaraya Technological University.
He is the founder and Chairman of Centre for Science, Technology and Policy (CSTEP), a technology and policy-study oriented R&D centre in the country. Recently he worked with Editor of Materials Research Society in editing a major special volume on Energy issues. -
Professor B V R Chowdari, NUS, Singapore (President, MRS Singapore) more details...
Professor B.V.R. Chowdari is currently working as the Executive Director of the National University of Singapore (NUS) - India Research Initiatives and also the Global Enterprise for Micromechanics and Molecular Medicine (GEM4). His current administrative responsibilities include fostering scientific relations between NUS and premier Indian Universities/Institutes in addition to administering the Secretariat of GEM4. He is also the Professor of Physics at NUS and Guest Professor at Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China. Earlier, after having obtained a PhD degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, he served in various capacities at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India, the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA, and the University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Professor Chowdari's research interests lie in condensed matter physics and materials chemistry. His current research focus is on the development of materials for applications in lithium ion batteries. He has published more than 175 research papers in various peer-reviewed international journals and trained 18 students for their PhD degrees. He is currently serving on the editorial board of a number of International scientific journals. He is also a member of the International Scientific Committee or Chairman of the Organizing Committee for more than 25 International Conferences.
He is currently serving as the President of the Asian Society for Solid State Ionics, Materials Research Society of Singapore, and President-elect of the International Union of Materials Research Societies (IUMRS). As the President of these professional societies, he has been associated with the organization of the last 11 Asian Conferences on Solid State Ionics and 5 International Conference on Materials for Advanced Technologies (ICMAT). He has also edited 14 books.
In recognition of the success of the ICMAT series and the impact it has created worldwide in bringing together people from a large number of countries, Professor Chowdari has been conferred the title Officier de l'Ordre des Palmes Academiques by the Government of France. He has also been awarded the Long Service Medal by the President of the Republic of Singapore.
Programme Chairs
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Dr Ali Chirazi, University of Manchester, United Kingdom -
Professor Bhanusankara Rao, Steel Chair Professor, MGIT, India more details...
Prof. K. BHANU SANKARA RAO has made significant and outstanding research contributions towards (i) development of structural, core and steam generator materials (Different types of Steels) of interest to fast reactors,(ii) development of dispersion strengthened ferritic-martensitic steels for clad tubes of fast reactors, (iii) development of reduced activation ferritic-martensitic steels for blanket modules of fusion reactors, (iv) development of nickel aluminides and fiber-reinforced composite materials for aerospace applications, (v) characterization of creep, fatigue, thermomechanical and creep-fatigue interaction behaviour of ferritic-martensitic steels, stainless steels, superalloys and their weldments, (vi) evaluation of strengthening, deformation and fracture mechanisms in high temperature materials, (vii) development constitutive equations for describing mechanical behaviour and life prediction methods and extrapolation of creep and fatigue properties, (viii) Studies on high Entropy materials and (ix) development of nanostructured materials and their Mechanical Properties. He is reciepient of Best Metallurgist Award in 1995, and National Metallurgist Award (Reseach and Academia) in 2012 from Ministry of Steel for the outstanding contributions towards development of Core, Structural and Steam Generator Materials for Fast Breeder Reactors, in the areas of creep, Fatigue and Creep-Fatigue interaction and Development continuous fiber reinforced composites for Aerospace applications. He was formerly Associate Director, Materials Development and Characterization Group at Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam, and Professor and Dean, School of Engineering Sciences and Technology, University of Hyderabad. He is currently "Ministry of Steel Chair Professor" at Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Technology, Hyderabad.
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Dr Carlos Capdevila Montes, Cenim Spain more details...
Dr. Carlos Capdevila earned his Ph.D. in Materials Science at Complutense University of Madrid in 1999. Actual position as Tenured scientist at the Physical Metallurgy Department of the Spanish National Center for Metallurgical Research (CENIM), one of the research institutes of the Spanish National Council for Scientific Research (CSIC). Previously (1998-2000), he was Research Associate in the Phase Transformation Research Group leaded by Prof. Bhadeshia at the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy of the University of Cambridge-UK. His research topics include phase transformations in steels, characterisation of the microstructure and optimisation of the mechanical properties of steels and iron-based alloys, thermodynamics and kinetics modelling of isothermal and anisothermal phase transformations in steels, and design of steels for industrial applications with high requirements.He has published more than 100 papers included in the Science Citation Report. He supervises PhD and undergraduate students.
Publication Chairs
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Professor Noriyoshi Matsumi, JAIST, Japan more details...
Noriyoshi MATSUMI received a B. S. degree from Kyoto University in 1995 and obtained Dr. of engineering in polymer chemistry from Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University in 2000 under the guidance by Professor Yoshiki Chujo. During 1999-2000, he received a Japan Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS) fellowship. Then he became assistant professor at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, working with Professor Hiroyuki Ohno. In 2006, he joined the group of Professor Keigo Aoi at Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University as associate professor. From 2010, he has been Professor at School of Materials Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST). His current research interest is design of organoboron functional materials, polymer electrolytes, ionic liquids, conjugated polymers and their applications for energy devices.
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Professor Apparao M Rao, Clemson, USA more details...
Apparao M. Rao is R. A. Bowen Professor of Physics at Clemson University and Director of Clemson Nanomaterials Center. He pioneered synthesis methods for carbon nanotubes, thermoelectric and oxide nanomaterials, and has been instrumental in advancing Raman spectroscopic characterization of fullerene polymers and carbon nanotubes. He is a recipient of the 2014 SC Governor's award for excellence in research, and is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for Advancement of Science. His research interests include defect-induced phenomenon at the nanoscale with a view towards nanomaterial-based device applications in energy generation, storage, sensors, and nanomedicine.