The research at IDEAs group is made possible by an enthusiastic group of student researchers. The following researchers (listed along with their research areas) currently comprises the IDEAs team
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Group Leader: Pratik K Ray
Group Leader: Pratik K Ray
Associate Professor (Metallurgical and Materials Engineering); Chairman, Central Research Facilities
pratik [at] iitrpr [dot] ac.in
Education PhD (Iowa State University, USA); MTech (IIT Madras); BTech(NIT Rourkela)
Experience Post-Doc (Ames Laboratory 2011-15); Associate Scientist (Ames Laboratory, 2015-19); Adjunct Assistant Professor (Iowa State University, 2017-19); Assistant Professor (IIT Ropar, 2019 till date).
Pratik's research focuses on studying interfaces in different materials systems through a combinatiton of experimental and theoretical methods, using a variety of characterization (electron microscopy, diffraction, in-situ measurements), processing (solidification, sintering, heat treatments) and modeling (cellular automata, thermodynamic modeling and materials informatics).
PhD Students @ IDEAs Lab
PhD Students @ IDEAs Lab
Santosh Kumar
(2020 till date)
Research Topic: Reactive Element Effect and the Dynamic Segregation Theory in Nickel Aluminide Bond Coat Materials.
Sagarika Bhattacharjee
(2020 till date)
Research Topic: Nanopatterning through Ice-templating.
Co-supervisor: Dr. Simge Cinar (METU, Turkey)
(2021 till date)
Research Topic: Oxidation behavior of borosilica forming materials.
Jhalak is also a PMRF scholar
Rudraksha Bharadwaj
(2023 till date)
Research Topic: Non-equilibrium solidification: development of theoretical models from experimental insights.
Manjeet Singh
(2023 till date)
Research Topic - MAX phases
co-supervised by Prof. Rajeev Ahuja and Dr. Pal Dinesh (TBRL)
Maitreya Fulmali
(2023 till date)
Research Topic - Cold-sprayed High Entropy Alloy coatings
co-supervised with Dr Rajiv Kumar
Undergraduate Students @ IDEAs Lab
Undergraduate Students @ IDEAs Lab
Aarzu Malhotra
BTech (2022 till date), Oxidation of MAX phases
Usham Adhitya Luwang
BTech (2022 till date), Exchange coupled magnets
Malay Ayachit
BTech (2023 till date), Microstructure Informatics
International Collaborations
International Collaborations
Ames Laboratory, USA: M.J. Kramer, Gaoyuan Ouyang, Prashant Singh and D.D. Johnson.
University of New Haven, USA: Ganesh Balasubramanian
National Collaborations
National Collaborations
IIT Varanasi: Joysurya Basu, Md. Imteyaz Ahmad.
IIT Madras: Basavaraj Gurappa, Gandham Phanikumar
IIT Ropar
IIT Ropar
Metallurgical and Materials Engineering: Rajiv Kumar, Hariprasad Gopalan, Abhishek Tiwari and Neha Sardana.
Physics: Rajeev Ahuja.
Email: pratik [at] iitrpr [dot] ac.in
Snail Mail: BM-17, Har Gobind Khurana Block, IIT Ropar, Rupnagar 140001, Punjab
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