Dr. Sai Ramudu Meka

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Surface Engineering - Thermochemical surface treatments for steels, powder metallurgy, second-phase dispersion strengthened metal alloys, Solid State Phase Transformation

BIOSKETCH:

1. Educational Details

• Ph.D, University of Stuttgart, Max Planck Institute for Metals Research, Stuttgart                                                                  2011

     Thesis title: Nitriding of iron based binary and ternary alloys

• M.Tech, Materials and Metallurgical Engineering, IIT Kanpur                                                                                                  2007

• B.E., Metallurgy, NITK, Surathkal                                                                                                                                             2002

2. Professional Background

• Assistant Professor, IIT Roorkee

• Associate Professor, IIT Roorkee

HONOURS AND AWARDS:

• Nominated to head Max Planck Partner Group of Max Planck Institute for Iron Research, Dusseldorf, Germany at IIT Roorkee

• Academic Excellence Award from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India for the best performance in the Master’s program at IIT Kanpur during academic year 2006.

• Recipient of IIT-DAAD Scholarship in 2006-2007 under which Master’s thesis work was carried out at Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Stuttgart, Germany.

• Received scholarship from Max Planck Society during PhD research at Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Stuttgart.

• S.R. Meka et al, Phil. Mag., Vol. 92, 2012, p 1083, runner-up for the 2012 James Clerk Maxwell Young Writers Prize. Paper was awarded the distinction of being highly commended.

• Co-authored contribution, by T. Steiner, S.R. Meka, E. Bischoff, T. Waldenmaier and E.J. Mittemeijer,in European Conference on Heat Treatment and 21st IFHTSE Congress 2014 received the IFHTSE-Tom Bell Young Author award. Award was given to Mr. T. Steiner.

• Best poster award at 26th International Symposium on Metastable, Amorphous and Nanostructured Materials (ISMANAM 2019: K.N.Sasidhar and S.R.Meka "isothermal stabilization of metastable states upon controlled gaseous nitriding"