Nitin Gupta - General Info.

Work experience

Apr 14, 2025 - Present

Post Doctoral Fellow, SPHYNX (Out-of-equilibrium Systems and Physics – HYdrodynamics – eNergy and compleXity), SPEC, IRAMIS (Institut Rayonnement-Matière de Saclay), CEA Paris Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France - 91190.

Research on Physics of Fracture: Unraveling the role of near-tip local heat onto crack dynamics.

June 05, 2018 - Oct 31, 2018

Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department, DVR & Dr Hima Sekhar MIC College of Technology Kanchikacherla, Krishna, Andhra Pradesh - 521180.

Education

Jan 2019 - Mar 2025

Ph. D. - Mechanical Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Karnataka, India – 560012

Thesis : Investigation of consolidation methods for developing load-bearing structures from lunar and Martian regolith simulants.

Developed extra-terrestrial regolith consolidation protocols.

Sintering of lunar and Martian regolith simulants and understanding of underlying mechanisms.
MICP --- Microbially induced calcite precipitation, for consolidating the regolith simulant.
Bio-polymers and their regolith binding capabilities, fabricated using Pressure assisted die casting.

Mechanical and Materials Characterization of brittle and heterogeneous solids.

Compressive, tensile and flexural testing of lunar and Martian consolidates --- "Space bricks".
High impact testing of space bricks using in house developed gas gun.
Micro structural characterization of space bricks using SEM and
Understanding the microscopic failure of these heterogeneous brittle solids using beam models.

Aug 2016 - May 2018

M. Tech. - Materials Science and Technology, National Institute of Technology Calicut, Kerala, India – 673601

Thesis : Structural analysis of aircraft wing made up of composite materials using Finite element Modelling.

Aug 2012 - July 2016

B. Tech. - Mechanical Engineering, Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Technical University, Lucknow.

Project : Testing and analysis of Mechanical properties of Aluminum matrix composite with reinforced mild steel.

Membership

ISOSU (Indian Society of Outer Space Utilization) Member

NPTEL Online certifications

NPTEL online Certification - Matrix analysis with application. Issued Nov 2018
NPTEL online Certification - Advanced Materials and Processes. Issued Nov 2018
NPTEL online Certification - Advanced composites. Issued Nov 2018 (Topper 2%)
NPTEL online Certification - Manufacturing of composites. Issued Nov 2018