Budaraju Srinivasa Murty

Budaraju Srinivasa Murty is an Institute Professor and Girija & R. Muralidharan Chair Professor at the Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras and is also currently the Head of the Department. Prior to joining IIT Madras he was a professor in Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. He was awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for science and technology, the highest science award in India, for the year 2007 in engineering science category.

Early life and education

Murty was born on 13 February 1964 in Vijayawada, India. He did his diploma in Metallurgical Engineering from Government Polytechnic, Vijayawada. He graduated B.Tech in Metallurgical Engineering from Visweswaraya Regional College of Engineering, Nagpur in 1986 at the top of the class. He then joined Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore for his Masters. From there he got his PhD in 1992. His PhD supervisor was S. Ranganathan.

Research

Murty's PhD thesis was titled "Study of Amorphous Phase Formation by Mechanical Alloying in Ti Based Systems", in which he started one of the earliest works in Mechanical Alloying in India. His research interests span over nanocrystalline metals and alloys, high entropy alloys, bulk metallic glasses, quasicrystalline alloys, grain refinement and modification of Al alloys, Al based composites, in-situ composites, non-equilibrium processing, particulate technologies, thermodynamics and kinetics of phase transformations, transmission electron microscopy and atom probe tomography.