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)
Associate Editor- Welding International (www.tandfonline.com/journals/twld20/about-this-journal#editorial-board), 2026.
Associate Editor- International Journal on Interactive Design and Manufacturing (link.springer.com/journal/12008/editorial-board), 2026.
Associate Editor under the Mechanical Engineering category in the journal "Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing)" 2024.
Associate Editor of "Dissimilar Material Joining in Engineering Systems: From Materials Processing to Structural Performance" Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A (Ongoing).
Selected as an Editor's Choice Article by ASM International’s Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance for the paper “Creep and High-Temperature Tensile Deformation Behavior of the TIG Welded P92/304L Dissimilar Steel Weld Joints (doi.org/10.1007/s11665-024-09872-y).” link.springer.com/journal/11665/updates/27822566.
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 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 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 "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.
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 an invited talk on "Research and Publication" at Aditya Institute of Technology and Management, India (25 March 2026).
External Academic Audit Expert, CIPET: IPT Jaipur, for B.Tech (Mechanical Engineering) programme (June 2026).
Delivered an expert talk on "Challenges and Solutions in Dissimilar Welding of Power Plant Materials" at SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur, India (16 October 2025).
Delivered an expert talk on "New Generation Steels for Advanced Power Plants" at SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur, India (15 October 2025).
Delivered an expert talk on "Need of Dissimilar Welding and its Additive Manufacturing Aspects" at NIT Patna, Bihar, India (09 September 2025).
Delivered an expert talk on "Metal Joining Processes and Its Industrial Importance" at G H Raisoni College of Engineering and Management, Pune, India (08 August 2025).
Delivered an invited talk on "Creep Study of the Dissimilar Welded Joint" at SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur, India (25 October 2024).
Delivered an invited talk on "Dissimilar Metals Welding: Challenges and Solutions" at SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur, India (24 October 2024).
Delivered a talk on "Graphene: The Wonder Material of the Future" in the SERB-sponsored Symposium organized by NIT Patna, India (10–16 July 2023).
Delivered a talk on "Welding of High Strength Materials (Ferritic + Austenitic Steels) for SC/USC Plants and Challenges in Welding of High Strength Materials for SC/USC Plants with Strategies to Overcome Them" at the training programme "Metallurgical Perspective for Reliable and Sustainable Power Generation", NTPC, Noida, India (04 June 2023).
Delivered an expert talk on "Weldability Issues in Dissimilar Welded Joints for Marine Applications" during the Short-Term Course (STC) on "Metal and Alloys for Defense Applications" at IIT (BHU) (27 February–03 March 2023).
Delivered an expert talk on "Challenges in Dissimilar Welding" during the Faculty Development Program on "Recent Trends in Mechanical Engineering" at SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Ghaziabad, India (23–28 May 2022).
Delivered a talk on "Challenges in the Design of Dissimilar Alloy Joining" during the ATAL Faculty Development Program on "Design Thinking" at Government Engineering College, Bikaner, India (17-21 January 2022).
Delivered a lecture on "Power Plant Materials" as an expert speaker in "Novel Materials" at SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Ghaziabad, India (23–27 August 2021).
Delivered lectures on "Welding and Fabrication of High-Strength Steels for Modern Power Plants" during the QIP Short-Term Course organized by IIT Bhubaneswar, India (21–25 June 2021).
Delivered a talk on "Recent Advancement in Material and Joining Technology" at SAGE University, Indore, India (09 June 2020).