Profile
Dr. Ratna Kumar Annabattula
: Professor
: Room No.208, Machine Design Section
: Department of Mechanical Engineering
: IIT Madras
: +91-44-2257-4719
Education
- Ph.D. (University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.)
- M.E. (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.)
- B.E. (Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, India.)
- D.M.E. (S.V. Government Polytechnic, Tirupati, India.)
Affiliations
- November 2022 - Present : Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Madras, India.
- July 2018 - November 2022 : Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Madras, India.
- December 2012 - July 2018 : Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Madras, India.
- October 2012 - November 2012 : Visiting Research Fellow, Faculty of Engineering Science, University College London (UCL), London, UK.
- July 2012 - September 2012 : Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow, Particle and Grains Laboratory, School of Civil Engineering, The University of Sydney, Australia.
- June 2010 - December2012 : Research Associate, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany
- June 2005 - October 2009 : PhD student and Research Assistant at Micromechanics of Materials Group, Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, University of Groningen (RuG), The Netherlands.
- August 2004 - May 2005 : Design Engineer at G. E. India Technology Center, Bangalore, India.
Awards and Distinctions
- Young Faculty Recognition Award (2015) from IIT Madras for excellence in teaching and research
- Thomas Young Centre’s Junior Research Fellowship to conduct research at UCL, London, UK.
- Recipient of the grant for DAAD-Go8 joint research cooperation scheme for conducting collaborative research at The University of Sydney, Australia.
- Recipient of travel fellowship to The Sustainability Development Forum, MRS Spring meeting in San Francisco, USA from 9-13 April 2012.
- One of the 50 young scientists selected world wide to attend the World Materials Summit held at Washington D.C., U. S. A, in October 2011 with travel fellowship.
- Recipient of Ubbo-Emmius scholarship for PhD research at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands.
Materials and human society share a common quality. They both work despite defects.
