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Revision as of 04:06, 28 December 2017

Prof. K.A. Padmanabhan is an Indian academician currently working as the Member (Physical Sciences), Research and Innovation Advisory Board & Advisor, TCS, and Aditya Birla S&T Company. He is a former Director, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur India.

Education

K.A. Padmanabhan obtained his B Sc (Hons.) (Metallurgy) – a five-year integrated degree program in Metallurgy and Metallurgical Engineering- from Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India in 1968, securing the first rank in the university and (all possible) three Gold Medals. He obtained his PhD from the University of Cambridge, Department of Metallurgy and Materials Science (Now called Materials Science and Metallurgy), Cambridge, U.K. in February 1972.

Career

He was an Advisor to Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and Aditya Birla S&T Company. During January - December 2009. He was the Mercator Professor of DFG - Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft at the Institute of Materials Physics, University of Münster, Germany. Prior to that, he was the Professor of Eminence at Anna University Chennai, India (Nov. 2006 to Dec. 2008). During March 2010 – April 2015, he was the University Chair Professor and prior to that Jawaharlal Nehru Chair Professor (September 2004-September 2006) at University of Hyderabad. He has also been a Visiting Professor at the University of Aachen, University of Darmstadt, University of Erlangen and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology - Institute of Nanotechnology, Germany. A former Director of IIT Kanpur and Dean, Academic Research at IIT Madras, he has about 45 years of research & development, consulting and teaching experience in materials science and engineering. He started his professional career in April 1972 at Banaras Hindu University (India) where he was a Lecturer (1972-74) and Reader (1974-79). In January 1980 he joined IIT Madras as the Professor and Head of Metal Forming Laboratory. During 1982 – 85 he served as the Head of the Department of Metallurgical & Materials Engineering of the same IIT. Prof. K.A. Padmanabhan established the Centre for Continuing Education at IIT Madras and he was its Founder-Chairman during 1986-90. In 1984/85 he received a grant of Deutsche Mark (DM) 3.2 million from the Federal Ministry of BMZ, Germany, through its implementing agency, GTZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit), for the establishment of an Indo-German Materials Testing Facility at IIT Madras. He was the founder Chairman, GATE (Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering) – the qualifying test for admissions with scholarship to higher technical institutions in India – on behalf of Ministry of Education, Government of India, for the First and the Second GATE examinations of 1983 and 1984.

Ten technologies developed by him and his students are used in Indian industries. He holds ONE European, ONE US and SIX Indian patents and has applied for THREE more. He has been a consultant to Tata Motors, Steel Authority of India Limited, Tata Steel, Indian Stainless Steel Development Association[1], Department of Atomic Energy, Indian Space Research Organization, Defence Research and Development Organisation, Tata Consultancy Services and Aditya Birla S&T Company.

He has authored two expert level books on “Superplasticity” (1980) and “Superplastic Flow: Phenomenology and Mechanics”[2] (2001), both published by Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg-Berlin, Germany. The book of 1980 has now been republished as an eBook and in print form, along with 39 other books, under the new Springer series “Springer Book Archives” out of about 4500 books published by Springer-Verlag in the period 1842 – 2005 (163 years). Recently he has been invited to write another book by springer Verlag on “Superplasticity: Common Basis for a Ubiquitous Phenomenon”[3], which is expected to be submitted to the publishers by the middle of 2016. He has edited 9 books. He has authored three book Chapters on “Reliability of Nanomaterials” (Elsevier, 2009), “Severe Plastic Deformation” (Trans. Tech. Publications, 2011) and “Superplasticity in and Superplastic Forming of Al-Li Alloys” (Elsevier, 2014). (Another is in the pipeline.) More than 270 research papers have been published by him in refereed international journals and international conference proceedings. His contributions in the areas of superplasticity and plasticity, bulk and sheet metal formability/ forming and fatigue are well known. He is the first Indian engineer/ materials scientist to be conferred the higher Doctor of Science (Sc.D) degree by the University of Cambridge, U.K. for his “outstanding research contributions”, and the first Indian to be awarded the ‘Humboldt-Forschungspreis’ (career research award, 1994) of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany. (In 1985 he received the Fellowship of the Humboldt Foundation also.) In 2001 he became the first recipient of the award “Gastwissenschaftler Programm für herausragende Wissenschaftler aus dem Ausland” (“Guest Scientist Program for Outstanding Scientists from Abroad”) of the Research Centre for Technology and Environment (FZK), Karlsruhe, Germany, which is open to scientists of all foreign nationalities working in any area of science and engineering.

He is a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering, Indian Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Sciences, India, Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (London), Indian Academy for Mathematical Modelling and Simulation, Institution of Engineers (India) (India), Life Fellow of the Indian Institute of Metals, Consulting Fellow of the World Innovation Foundation (London), Honorary Academician of the Bashkirian Academy of Sciences, Russia (formerly the Urals Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences), a Member of the Materials Research Society (USA), Materials Research Society of India, Asia Pacific Academy of Sciences, Society of Aerospace Manufacturing Engineers (India) and Indian Structural Integrity Society. He is a Chartered Engineer in India and the UK. He is an Honorary Member of the Indian Institute of Metals and the Institute of Indian Foundrymen and a recipient of the “For the sake of Honor” award of the Rotary Club, Chennai Central, India.

Prof. Padmanabhan has been working in the area of nanostructured materials since 1994. He is the author of the well-cited models on Superplasticity/ Grain-Boundary-Sliding Controlled Flow in Microcrystalline, Sub-microcrystalline and Nanocrystalline Metals and Alloys, Ceramics, bulk metallic glasses, geological materials and intermetallics and the Inverse Hall-Petch Effect. Nature Materials (Vol. 4, No. 8, August 2005, p. 575) described his paper with H. Gleiter (Materials Science and Engineering A, 2004) in an editorial as a “break-through from India”. His models for predicting the forming limit diagram of steels and the limiting grain size obtainable in severe plastic deformation are also well-known.

He was the Founder Professor In-charge of the Centre for Nanotechnology (CFN) at the University of Hyderabad. At Anna University Chennai he established the Siemens Centre of Excellence in Life Cycle Management and the Centre for Technology Development and Transfer (CTDT). In addition, he has been the Chairman of important committees of the Defence R&D Organization and Department of Information Technology, Government of India. He served as a Member of the Joint Scientific Council, consisting of Indian and German scientists, which is responsible for approving projects to be jointly funded by the Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) of Germany and the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India through the Indo-German Science and Technology Centre. From November 2012, he is the (first) Chairman of the Research Council of Defence R&D Laboratory, Hyderabad, the nursery of India’s Missile Technology Program and now a part of the “Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Missile Complex”.

During February 06-08, 2013 an international conference “Advances in Materials Processing and Characterization (AMPC) 2013” was held on the Guindy campus of Anna University, Chennai, the birth place of Engineering Education in India. At the end of the sessions on February 06, 2013 (the first day), he was honored by the presentation of a plaque for his contributions to “Materials Science and Engineering, Materials & General Engineering Education and Research over his entire career”.

He was a Lecturer in the Department of Metallurgical Engineering, Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India, during 1972-74, became a Reader in the same Department in 1974 and was appointed a full professor in the Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India in January 1980, a position he held till September 1997. In October 1997, he took charge as the Director,[4] Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India and continued in that post till September 2001. He also held various visiting professorship assignments in University of Sheffield, UK, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, Technical University of Aachen, Technical University of Darmstadt, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, University of Muenster (the last four in Germany). He was the Jawaharlal Nehru Chair Professor, University of Hyderabad during 2004-06 and later University Chair Professor during 2010-15.

His present research interests in the areas of Superplasticity [5] in different classes of engineering materials, severe plastic deformation of metallic materials, materials testing and materials processing, structure - property correlations in engineering materials, nanostructured materials.

Awards and honours

  • University of Cambridge, UK, conferred on him the higher degree of Doctor of Science (Sc.D.) for his "research contributions" in July 1998. He is the FIRST Indian Engineer / materials engineer to receive this rare distinction.
  • FIRST INDIAN to receive the ‘FORSCHUNGSPREIS’ (Career Research Award) of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in 1994 [6]
  • Was appointed following a global screening process as the Mercator Professor of the DFG (German Research Foundation) during January - December 2009, a position he held at University of Muenster, Germany
  • Honorary Academician, Bashkirian Academy of Sciences, Russia
  • Life Fellow and Honorary Member, Indian Institute of Metals; FIIM
  • Fellow, Indian National Academy of Engineering, FINAE
  • Fellow, Indian Academy of Sciences, FIAS
  • Fellow, National Academy of Sciences, India, FNASI and several others.
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References

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  4. ^ "Dr. Anantha Padmanabhan K." www.ijbst.org. IJBST. ISSN 0974-3987. Retrieved 19 January 2017.
  5. ^ "Superplasticity : mechanical and structural aspects, environmental effects, fundamentals and applications / K.A. Padmanabhan, G.J. Davies. - Version details". Trove. Retrieved 19 January 2017.
  6. ^ "Prof. K A Padmanabhan - Home". home.iitk.ac.in. Retrieved 19 January 2017.
Year of honour Name of award Awarding organisation
2013 Plaque of Honour At a function organized by several Indian academic and R&D organizations on the Guindy campus of Anna University, Chennai
July – August 2012 Re-invitation under the Forschungspreis (Career Research Award) Program. Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany
2009

Mercator Visiting Professorship of German Research Foundation (DFG) – a National Chair – at University of Muenster, Germany during January 2009 – December 2009.|| Deutsch Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) – German Research Foundation, Bonn

2001- 2002 and June – August 2004 Selection for the Award under ‘Guest Scientist Program for Outstanding Scientists from Abroad’ (First recipient of the award) Research Centre for Technology and Environment (FZK), Karlsruhe, Germany – a member of the Helmholtz Society of Research Institutions
September – October 2000 Re-invitation under the ‘Forschungspreis’ (Career Research Award) program Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany
December 1998 Distinguished Alumnus Award, Department of Metallurgical Engineering, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India Department of Metallurgical Engineering, Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University (now IIT-BHU), Varanasi, India
July 1998 Sc. D. degree (First Indian recipient in the area of Engineering/ Materials Science & Engineering) for “research contributions” University of Cambridge, UK
August – November 1995 DFG Visiting Professorship at Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany Deutsch Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Bonn
August 1994 – July 1995 Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany Forschungspreis (Career Research Award). (This is a career research award of the highest category of the Humboldt Foundation. He is the FIRST INDIAN recipient.)
July 1994 “For the Sake of Honor” Award Rotary Club, Chennai (Madras) Central, India
January 1994 CDC-DSIR Award (Certificate of Merit) for having set up a Superplastic Forming Facility at Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Thiruvananthapuram, India, for making components for Space applications. Consultancy Development Centre (CDC), Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR), Government of India
November 1992 Kamani Gold Medal (for publishing the paper of the highest merit in the Transactions of the Indian Institute of Metals during 1991) Indian Institute of Metals
1990 Materials Research Society of India Materials Research Society of India (MRSI) Medal
Award first received in May 1985 – April 1986 ( worked at University of Aachen); re-invitations in 1989 (worked at University of Erlangen) and 1990 (worked at University of Aachen) Alexander von Humboldt (AvH) Fellowship Fellowship

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