Short CV:

Dr. Hosmani did B.E. in Metallurgical Engineering from REC (currently National Institute of Technology) - Nagpur and M.Tech. in Process Metallurgy from IIT-Bombay. He was the recipient of a DAAD scholarship for doing M.Tech. research at the University of Stuttgart (Germany). He did Ph.D. work at the Max-Planck Institute for Metals Research, Stuttgart, Germany, and got a degree from the University of Stuttgart in 2006. He completed his Ph.D. in the area of Nitriding of Fe-based Alloys. He continued in research after his Ph.D. as a post-doctoral scientist for about three years in Germany (MPI, Stuttgart) and the USA (CWRU, Cleveland, OH). He received Fellowships from the prestigious Max-Planck-Society during Ph.D. and Post-Doc.

He held regular faculty positions at NIT-Surathkal, IIT-Delhi, and COE-Pune. He gained industrial experience as a Senior Manager at the R&D Center of Bharat Forge Ltd, Pune. Since June-2006, he has had about 17 Years of Post-Ph.D. experience in research, academics, and management. Currently, he is a Professor at IIT Indore.

In 2013-14, he got the ‘Best Teacher Award’ by COEP where he was one of the three best faculties of the year 2013. He & his students got 3 Best Paper Awards at conferences. He has several publications in international and national journals and conferences. He has written a book on 'An Introduction to Surface Alloying of Metals', which was published by Springer in 2014. He is also a co-author of a book chapter that was published by CRC Press in 2016. He has guided 14 B.Tech., 23 M.Tech. and 4 Ph.D.  students. Currently, he is guiding 2 Ph.D. and 2 B.Tech. students.

The research interests of Dr. Hosmani's group are Surface Engineering, Severe Surface Deformation, Gradient Structured Surface, Surface Alloying, Coatings, Tribology, Microstructure-Property Correlation, and Physical Metallurgy.

 EDUCATION:

• Ph.D.: Max-Planck-Institute for Metals Research, Stuttgart and University of Stuttgart, Germany (2003 - 2006)

Ph.D. in the topic “Nitriding of Iron-based Alloys; the Role of Excess Nitrogen.”

Awarded “Auszeichnung bestanden ” [in English: “Excellent”]

• M.Tech.: Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India  (2001 - 2003)

M.Tech. (Metallurgical Engineering & Materials Science (with specialization in Process Metallurgy)), 

CPI/CGPA: 9.22/10

M.Tech. thesis work, Under IIT-DAAD sandwich program at the University of Stuttgart, Germany (2002 - 2003)

Thesis title: Gaseous Nitriding of Iron-Chromium Alloys.   

• B.E.: Regional College of Engineering (currently N.I.T.), and Nagpur University, India (1997 - 2001)  

B.E. (Metallurgical Engineering), 75.68%

Thesis title: Quality Evaluation of Centrifugally Spun Cast-Iron Pipes.      

 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

• Professor, Department of Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science, Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India (27 October 2023 – till date)

• Associate Professor, Department of Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science, Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India (11 December 2018 – 26 October 2023)

• Assistant Professor, Metallurgy Engineering and Materials Science, Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India (17 April 2017 – 10 December 2018).

• Senior Manager (R&D), Kalyani Centre for Technology and Innovation (KCTI), Bharat Forge Ltd., Pune, India (04 April 2015 – 15 April 2017)

• Assistant Professor, Department of Metallurgy & Material Science, College of Engineering, Pune (COEP – An Autonomous Institute of the Government of Maharashtra), India (20 June 2011 – 31 March 2015).

• Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Mechanics, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD), India (08 June 2010 – 15 June 2011).

• Assistant Professor, Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, National Institute of Technology – Karnataka, Surathkal, India (19 January 2009 - 25 May 2010).

• Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, U.S.A. (19 March 2008 – 15 November 2008).

• Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Max-Planck-Institute for Metals Research, Stuttgart, Germany (19 May 2006 – 17 March 2008).

 OTHER EXPERIENCE:

• Guest Faculty, Department of Materials Engineering, Defence Institute of Advanced Technology (DIAT), Pune, India (July 2013 – December 2013). [This assignment was during the full-time employment at COEP]  

 ACHIEVEMENTS, HONOURS, AND SCHOLARSHIPS:

• Successfully led a team as the Quality Manager to get the NABL (National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories) Accreditation in the first attempt for the testing facilities at Kalyani Centre for Technology and Innovation (KCTI), Bharat Forge Ltd., Pune, India (2015-16).  

• First prize for the Best Paper in Poster Session (Materials Science category) at the 68th Annual Technical Meeting (ATM) of the Indian Institute of Metals (IIM), Organized at Pune – (2014)

• Best Teacher Award, COEP Star Award-2013, Given by ‘College of Engineering, Pune (COEP)’: One of the three best faculties of the year 2013.

• The paper published by Akshay Joshi and S.S. Hosmani in the Materials and Manufacturing Processes journal has got a high score on Taylor & Francis Publication. This publication was Editors’ Selection of Noteworthy 2014-2015 Articles.

• A paper published in the International Journal of Materials Research (IJMR) in 2008 (vol. 99, pages 808-814) is IJMR’s one of the most downloaded papers from 2008 till 2010 – (Ref.: Editorial, IJMR, vol. 101, page 704, 2010 and vol. 101, page 1460, 2010).

• Third Prize for the Best Paper in Oral Session at the 63rd Annual Technical Meeting (ATM) of Indian Institute of Metals (IIM), Organized at Kolkata – (2009).

• Postdoctoral Fellowship from Case-Western-Reserve-University, Cleveland (U.S.A.) (03/2008 – 11/2008) and from Max-Planck-Society (Germany) (05/2006 – 03/2008).

• Awarded Ph.D. with the highest possible grade at the University of Stuttgart, i.e. “Auszeichnung bestanden” [in English: “Excellent”] (06/2006).

• Scholarship from Max-Planck-Society (Germany) during Ph.D. research (05/2003 – 05/2006).

• Scholarship from German Academic Exchange Service for M.Tech. thesis at the University of Stuttgart, Germany: one of the eight candidates selected at IIT-Bombay for the IIT-DAAD sandwich program (05/2002 – 02/2003).