I am Mogadalai Pandurangan Gururajan -- M P Gururajan -- Guru, for short.

At present, I am an Assistant Professor at the Department of Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science, IIT-Bombay, Powai, Mumbai 400076. 

Before I came here, I spent eight (great) months at IIT-Delhi, Department of Applied Mechanics, and two (wonderful) years at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3108 USA. The photo on the left was taken at my office in Department of Metallurgy (currently, Department of Materials Engineering), Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012 INDIA, where I (spent great many exciting, and, at times, Ph D Comic-ian years, of course, and) got my Ph D under Prof. T. A. Abinandanan.

I work in the area of modelling microstructural evolution. I have worked on the problems of elastic stress effects on microstructural evolution (growth kinetics, thin films, rafting, and phase inversion), grain growth, and point defects in B2 ordered alloys. I have taught parts of a(n undergraduate) Introduction to Materials Science  course, and a(n undergraduate) Phase transformations and a (graduate) Properties and Selection of Engineering Materials courses. This semester (January-May, 2010) I am teaching a (n undergraduate) Electronic properties of materials course. In this page, you will find details of my research interests, teaching experience and many other things. Feel free to explore and give your feedback.