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Rahul Mitra

Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Defence Metallurgical Research Laboratory

ORCID iD 0000-0002-2908-1479
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Rahul Mitra received B.Tech (Hons.) in Metallurgical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in 1988 and Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA in 1992. Thereafter, he joined the Defence Metallurgical Research Laboratory at Hyderabad as scientist, and in 2002 he moved to Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, where he is a Professor of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering department, and served as Head from April 2017 to December 2020. He also served as Chairman, Central Research Facility, IIT Kharagpur from December 2009 to November 2017. He has also been on sabbatical to carry out research at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois and University of Southern California. At IIT Kharagpur, he has worked on several sponsored projects with net worth of more than INR. 150 Million (USD 2 Million) as Principal Investigator, and supervised 23 PhD students. His research is focused primarily on processing as well as structure-property relations of silicide based intermetallic alloys, ultra-high temperature ceramic matrix composites as well as Carbon-fibre reinforced composites with emphasis on deformation and oxidation behavior for nearly three decades. His research interests also include processing and mechanical behavior of lightweight metal-matrix composites as well as nanocomposite thin films.
He is presently the Chairman of Indian Institute of Metals Kharagpur Chapter and Electron Microscope Society of India East Zone. He is recipient of the Materials Research Society Medal in 2003, and the Metallurgist of the Year award (Metal Science Category) from the Ministry of Steel, Government of India in 2014. He has been elected as the fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering in 2016 and that of the Electron Microscopy Society of India in 2017. He has so far 191 publications in peer reviewed journals, 8 book chapters, and two patents (h-index: 38 and i10 index = 117 by Google Scholar). Furthermore, he has authored a book with the title, “Structural Intermetallics and Intermetallic Matrix Composites” published in 2015 by CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group, and has also edited a book with the title, “Intermetallic Matrix Composites: Properties and Applications”. He is also a member of the Editorial board of Sadhana, published jointly by Springer and Indian Academy of Sciences.

Employment

  • Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur Professor
    2002 - Present
  • Defence Metallurgical Research Laboratory Scientist
    1993 - 2002

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