Upadrasta Ramamurty
Born1967
NationalityIndian
AwardsShanti Swarup Bhatnagar award

Upadrasta Ramamurty (born 1967) is an Indian engineering scientist. He holds a position as a professor in the Department of Materials Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science.

Background

He has a Ph.D. (1994) from Brown University, a master's degree in engineering (1991) from the Indian Institute of Science, and a bachelor's degree in engineering (1989) from Andhra University.[1]

Awards

He was awarded in 2011 the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, the highest science award in India, in the engineering category.[2] In 2015, he was awarded the TWAS Prize in the engineering category for his fundamental contributions to the understanding of deformation, fatigue and fracture in several classes of new materials.[3][4]

References

  1. ↑ "Resume for Upadrasta Ramamurthy", 19 October 2011
  2. ↑ "11 scientists selected for Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar award" ibn live, 26 September 2011
  3. ↑ "Winners of 2015 TWAS Prizes announced".
  4. ↑ "IISc scientist wins The World Academy of Sciences award". Hindustan Times. 9 December 2015. Retrieved 21 January 2019.
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