Professional experience:

• Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, India (2021 - present)

• Research Scientist, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Campus North, Germany (2019 - 2021)

• Post-Doctoral Fellow & Research Scientist, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA  (2018 - 2020)

• IIT-DAAD Scholar, Max Planck Institute, Stuttgart, Germany (2013 - 2014)

Editorial Role:

• Associate Editor, Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Engineering (August 2024 - present; Springer)

Research education:

• Ph.D., Karlsruhe Insititute of Technology (KIT), Germany (2014 - 2018)

• M.Tech., Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee (2012 - 2014)

Awards & honors:

• American Society for Metals - Indian Institute of Metals (ASM-IIM) visiting lectureship award 2024

• Infosys Young Investigator Award 2024

• Associate 2023, Indian Academy of Sciences (IAS)

• Best Poster Award 2020 at the 44th International Conference & Expo on Advanced Ceramics and Composites, Daytona Beach, Florida, USA.

• Outstanding Reviewer Award 2018 from Acta Materialia Inc. Journals, Elsevier publications

• Invited Plenary Lecture at NuMat 2018: The Nuclear Materials Conference, Seattle, USA

• Best Paper Award 2017 from the Journal of Nuclear Materials, Elsevier publications

• Certificate of Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing from the Journal of Nuclear Materials and Fusion Engineering and Design

• German association for materials research & testing (DVM) young scientist award / DVM junior prize 2017

• IIT–DAAD Scholarship 2013

• B.Tech. Gold Medal 2011