Group Leader

Dr. Chandan Srivastava,

Professor

Department of Materials Engineering

Indian Institute of Science

Bangalore-560012

India

Phone: 91-80-22932834 (office)

Email: csrivastava@iisc.ac.in

Research Interests

(a) Microstructure-Property correlations.

(c) Electron Microscopy

(e) Metallic Coatings

(f) Corrosion Science and Engineering

Education

PhD (Doctor of Philosophy)

Major: Materials Science

The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA.

2009.

MS (Master of Science)

Major: Metallurgical and Materials Engineering

The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA.

2006

B. Tech (Bachelor of Technology)

Major: Metallurgical and Materials Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India

2003

Work Experience

• January 2022-Present: Professor, Department of Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore-560012, India. 

• January 2016-January 2022: Associate Professor, Department of Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore-560012, India. 

• January 2010-January 2016: Assistant Professor, Department of Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore-560012, India.

• January 2010-Present: Member of the Core Executive Committee of the Advanced Facility for Microscopy and Microanalysis (AFMM), Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.

• May 2009- December 2009: Centenary Post Doctoral Fellow, Department of Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore-560012, India.

• November 2008-December 2008: Research Assistant, Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA.

• May 2008-October 2008: Research Intern, Seagate Research, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.

• August 2003-May 2008: Graduate Research Assistant, Materials for Information Technology Center and Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA.

Awards

• Fellow of the Electron Microscopy Society of India (2023).

• Outstanding Dissertation Award by University of Alabama, USA, 2009.

• IEI Young Engineer Award, 2012.

•  Young Associate of the Indian Academy of Sciences (2014-2017).

•  DAAD (German Academic Exchange) fellowship award to visit Ernst Ruska-Centre (ER-C) for Microscopy in Julich Germany (2014).

• 'Certificate of Excellence' Award by the Ministry of Steel, Goverment of India (2014).

• NASI-Young Scientist Platinum Jubilee Award (2015).