Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, IIT Jodhpur, India (January 2025–present)
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, IIT Jodhpur, India (April 2019–January 2025)
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, SRM University, India (July 2018–March 2019)
Ph.D., Prof. M. M. Mahapatra (old.iitbbs.ac.in/profile.php/MMMahapatra/) and Prof. Pradeep Kumar (www.iitr.ac.in/~ME/_Kumar__Pradeep_ ), Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India (2013–2018)
M.Tech., Prof. M. M. Mahapatra (old.iitbbs.ac.in/profile.php/MMMahapatra/), Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India (2010–2012)
Award for Research Excellence-2025: "Young Researcher Award (Engineering)", 2025 (www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7357381592886984704/ ).
Highly cited review: Thermal Barrier Coatings—A State of the Art Review, (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/surface-ventures_thermal-barrier-coatingsa-state-of-the-art-activity-7358104455520608256-qx85/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios&rcm=ACoAABnZk1oB_zAGUR6eG2t6q-Tw45gRpkzkZ1c).
INAE Young Associateship 2024 (https://www.inae.in/young-criteria/) (www.linkedin.com/posts/iitjodhpur_inaeyoungassociate-iitjodhpur-engineeringexcellence-activity-7237329487279878144-eYHR?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAE7-PGUBukzNPgzFnelsP6eI2t5s58GaX14 ).
World's Top 2% Scientists 2024 list by Stanford University! (www.linkedin.com/posts/iitjodhpur_iitjodhpur-top2percentscientists-globalimpact-activity-7242412286680653824-kz-G?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAE7-PGUBukzNPgzFnelsP6eI2t5s58GaX14 ).
Outstanding Reviewer Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance, 2024.
Best Presenter Award for the Track of ‘Manufacturing Technology’, Research, Organizing Committee International Conference on Advances in Materials & Processing Technologies AMPT 2023 organized by Department of Mechanical, and Manufacturing Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University Putra Malaysia, 2023, International.
IEI Young Engineers Award 2023-24 in Production Engineering.
Outstanding Reviewer Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance, 2023.
Outstanding Reviewer, Journal of Material Engineering Performance, 2018.
Topic Editor of "Welding and joining of materials in off-shore and energy industry" MDPI Journal, 2022.
Topic Editor of "Advances in Dissimilar Welding: Integrating Computational Techniques for Enhanced Joint Performance" Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance (www.linkedin.com/in/chandan-pandey-031a0330b/recent-activity/all/), 2025-26.
Served as Editorial Board Member in the esteemed journal “Metals and Materials International" Metals and Materials International Journal 2019-2020.
Editorial Board Member under the Mechanical Engineering category in the esteemed journal "Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing)" 2024.
Associate Editor, Advances in Materials Science 2019-2024.
Best Paper Award, Metals and Materials International Journal (2019).
Best Paper Award, Springer (2019).
Certificate of Excellence, SRM University, Modinagar Uttar Pradesh (2018).
Outstanding Reviewer Awards, Materials Research Express, 2018.
Materials Science and Engineering A
Journal of material Processing
Journal of Materials Research and Technology
Journal of Alloys and Compounds
Journal of Nuclear Material
Metals and Materials International
Journal of material Engineering and Performance
Materials Characterization
Measurement
Materials and Design
Reviews on Advanced Materials Science
Progress in Materials Science
Coating
Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science
Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part E: Journal of Process Mechanical Engineering
Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part B: Journal of Engineering Manufacture
Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part L: Journal of Materials: Design and Applications
Materials
Metals
CIRP Journal of Manufacturing Science and Technology
Pressure Vessel Technology (ASME)
Welding International
Metals and Materials International
Delivered a talk on “Recent Advancement in Material and Joining Technology”, at SAGE University Indore, India (9 June 2020).
Delivered lectures on, “Welding and fabrication of high strength steels for modern power plants” in QIP short term course organized by IIT Bhuneshwar (21 June 2021 to 25 June 2021).
Delivered a lecture on "Power Plant Materials" as expert Speaker on “Novel Materials” at SRM IST Ghaziabad (23-27 August 2021).
Delivered an expert talk for a session of “Challenges in Dissimilar Welding” in Faculty Development Program on "Recent Trends in Mechanical Engineering" at SRM IST Ghaziabad (23-28 May 2022).
Delivered a talk on "Challenges in the design of dissimilar alloy joining " at ATAL FDP on 'Design Thinking' in Government Engineering College Bikaner (17-21 January 2022).
Delivered an expert talk on " Weldability issues in dissimilar welded joints for marine application" in STC (Metal and Alloys for Defense Applications) at IIT BHU (February 27- March 03, 2023).
Delivered a talk on "1st part-Welding of high strength material (Ferritic+austenitic steel materials ) for SC/USC plants and 2nd part- Challenges in welding of high strength steel material (Ferritic+austenitic steel materials ) for SC/USC plants and strategies to overcome them " at Training program on "Metallurgical Perspective for Reliable and Sustainable Power Generation” at NTPC, Noida, India (04 June 2023).
Delivered a talk on “Graphene: The Wonder Material of the Future” in SERB sponsored SYMPOSIA organized by NIT Patna (10-07-2023 to 16-07-2023).
Delivered an invited talk on “DISSIMILAR METALS WELDING: CHALLENGES AND SOLUTIONS”, at SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur, India (24/10/2024).
Delivered an invited talk on “CREEP STUDY OF THE DISSIMILAR WELDED JOINT”, at SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur, India (25/10/2024).
Delivered an expert talk on “Metal Joining Processes and Its Industrial Importance " at G H Raisoni College of Engineering and Management, Pune (08 August 2025).
Delivered an expert talk on “Need of Dissimilar Welding and its Additive Manufacturing Aspects" at NIT Patna, Bihar (09 September 2025).
