MET - Faculty

Faculty Members


Area of Interest: Phase Equilibria, Phase Transformations, Computational Thermodynamics.


Area of Interest: Thermodynamic measurements of multicomponent systems, Lead-free solder alloys, Corrosion and oxidation of Metals and alloys, Orthopedic Implant, Extractive Metallurgy.


Area of Interest: Fatigue, Corrosion-Fatigue, Hot corrosion, Iron and Steel making, Welding Metallurgy, Metallurgical failure analysis.


Area of Interest: Electron Microscopy, Application of electron microscopy in understanding materials phenomena at atomic scale with special emphasis on structural phase transformation, metastable, nanostructured and glassy alloys, defects and interfaces, thin films, energy materials and devices. For detailed information please visit our website at http://sites.google.com/itbhu.ac.in/emmgroup/home. Click on the tab "Visit My Website".


Area of Interest: Extractive Metallurgy, Recycling of e-waste, Recycling of Critical Metals, Archaeometallurgy, Rural Entrepreneurship.


Area of Interest: Fatigue and Fracture, Deformation Behaviour, Structure-Property Relationship in Materials, Corrosion and Oxidation, Advanced Structural Materials, Failure Analysis, Severe Plastic Deformation.


Area of Interest: Physical Metallurgy, Magnetic Materials, Nanomaterials and Biomaterials.


Area of Interest: Mechanical Metallurgy: Deformation and Fracture, Fatigue Behaviour of Advanced Structural Materials, Failure Analysis; Advanced Steels; Phase Transformations; Corrosion; Additive Manufacturing.


Area of Interest: Physical Metallurgy, Quasicrystals, Nanomaterials, Bulk Metallic Glasses, Complex Metallic Alloys, Metastable phases. High Entropy Alloys, Electron Microscopy, X-ray Diffraction, Phase Transformations, Rapid Solidification, Mechanical Alloying/Milling, Interfaces, Micro- and nano-indentation, Failure analysis and component integrity.


Area of Interest:Phase Transformations, Design of Advanced Steels, Heat Treatments of Metals, Ultrafine-Grained and Bulk Nanostructured Aluminum alloys, Magnesium Alloys, Steels, Bainitic steels, Low Density Steels, Severe Plastic Deformation, Electropulsing, Steel Technologies, Bulk textures, Microtextures and Residual Stress, Thermomechanical Processing.


Area of Interest:Computational Thermodynamics, Ab initio modeling of thermodynamics, Alloy Design, Advanced Materials.


Area of Interest:• Mechanical behaviour of materials • Light metals, alloys and composites (mostly magnesium alloys and composites)- Processing, microstructural characterization and evaluation of mechanical behaviour • High temperature deformation behaviour (Creep).


Area of Interest: Foundry and Forge Technology , Heat and Mass Transfer in Metallurgical processes.


Area of Interest: Extractive/Electro-Metallurgy, Fuel cellsand batteries, hydrogen production.


Area of Interest: Ironmaking and Steelmaking, Mathematical Modelling.


Area of Interest: Nanomaterials for Energy conversion, Material Characterization.


Area of Interest: Magnetic and magnetocaloric alloys, Thermomagnetic materials & devices, Functional materials for energy applications, multiferroics.


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Area of Interest: Materials Processing, Additive Manufacturing, Shape Memory Alloys, Nano Indentation.


Area of Interest: Complex concentrated alloys, Additive manufacturing, High temperature degradation, Materials for extreme environments.


Area of Interest: Microstructure, crystallographic texture, mechanical behaviour and thermo-mechanical processing of metals and alloys.


Area of Interest: Stainless Steel, Industrial processing of metals, Alloy steel development, Structure-Property correlation, Thermomechanical Processing, Microstructure & texture, Industrial failure analysis, Steel making, Waste utilization.


Area of Interest: Metallic glasses, Mechanical Behaviour, Aluminum metal foams, Precipitation Kinetics.


Area of Interest: Development of new steels. Modelling the microstructural evolution during creep and hot deformation, Flow stress and Creep strain modelling, Simulation of precipitation kinetics (Calphad approach), Processing maps, Creep study of weld joints, X-Ray diffraction, EBSD, TEM, Ni based alloys.


Area of Interest: Rapid alloy designing and processing, Large strain thermo-mechanical processing, Additive manufacturing of metallic and multi-metallic structures, Crystallographic texture, Deformation behaviour of materials , Advanced electron microscopy, and Machine learning.


Area of Interest: Extractive Metallurgy, Minerals Processing, Iron making, E-waste recycling, Hydrometallurgy.


Area of Interest: Microstructural Evolution Modeling and Simulations, Emergence and Pattern Formation in Multi-phase Systems and Flows, Phase-field Simulations, Multi-scale Materials Modeling, Crystal Growth.

Dr. Rajiv Kumar Mandal
rkmandal.met@iitbhu.ac.in
Dr. S. N. Ojha
snojha.met@iitbhu.ac.in
Dr. T. R. Mankhand
trmankhand.met@iitbhu.ac.in
Dr. G. V. S. Sastry
gvssastry.met@iitbhu.ac.in
Dr. Sunil Mohan
smohan.met@iitbhu.ac.in
S. No. Head of Department Tenure
1Prof. N. C. Santhi Srinivas2025 - Present
2Prof. Sunil Mohan2021 - 2024
3Prof. N. K. Mukhopadhyay2017 - 2020
4Prof. R. K. Mandal2014 - 2017
5Prof. G. V. S. Sastry2011 - 2014
6Prof. A. K. Ghose2010 - 2011
7Prof. Shamsuddin2007 - 2010
8Prof. R. C. Gupta2004 - 2007
9Prof. S. N. Ojha2001 - 2004
10Prof. Vakil Singh1998 - 2001
11Prof. S. Lele1995 - 1998
12Prof. V. V. Kutumba Rao1993 - 1995
13Prof. D. S. Sarma1991 - 1993
14Prof. S. N. Tiwari1989 - 1991
15Prof. P. M. Prasad1987 - 1989
16Prof. V. B. Tare1985 - 1987
17Prof. B. Prakash1983 - 1985
18Prof. S. Bhan1981 - 1983
19Prof. S. Ranganathan1980 - 1981
20Prof. S. L. Malhotra1977 - 1980
21Prof. T. R. Anantharaman1962 - 1977
22Prof. D. Swarup1937 - 1962
23Prof. N. P. Gandhi1923 - 1937
S.no. Name Tenure
1.
Dr. Deep M. Jariwala
June,2021 - June,2023
2.
Dr. Pradeep Haldar
June,2021 - June,2023
3.
Dr. Pratyush Tiwary
June,2021 - June,2023
4.
Dr. R. Devesh K. Misra
June,2021 - June,2023
5.
Dr. R. Devesh K. Misra
June,2021 - June,2023
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Shri Sunder S. Rajan
Specialization: specialized in the R&D of a wide range of materials, processes and products, including electronic materials used in RADAR, missile, optical sensors and mirrors, aluminum, titanium, refractory alloys, ceramics, glasses, thin film coatings, radiation shielding materials, vacuum brazing, additive manufacturing, nanomaterials.
Email : sunder.sunder.rajan@gmail.com