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Education

 

1984

Ph. D. Materials Science & Engineering: Stanford University

1978

B.A. Natural Sciences: Cambridge University

 

Experience

 

2022-present

Honorary Professor, Department of Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

2015-2021

Chairman (Dean), Division of Mechanical Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

2009-2015

Chairman, Department of Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

2002-2009

Professor, Department of Materials Engineering (Metallurgy), Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

1996-2002

Associate Professor, Department of Materials Engineering (Metallurgy), Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

1990-1996

Assistant Professor, Department of Materials Engineering (Metallurgy), Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

1987-1989

Assistant Research Engineer, University of California, Santa Barbara

Research in the fields of Rapid solidification of Ceramics, Fabrication of Ceramic Composites, Fracture of Interfaces

1984-1986

Staff Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory

Research in the field of Ceramic metal adhesion, Fracture Toughness of Interfaces, Phase transformations and precipitations in Alumina

1978-1984

Research Assistant, Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Stanford University

Ph.D Dissertation on "Crack Initiation and Deformation in WC-Co"

Teaching of Laboratory Courses and Problem Sessions on the Application of Crystallography and Diffraction in Materials Science

 

 

Honours

 

2020

Lifetime Achievement Award, Electron Microscopy Society of India

2017

JC Bose Fellowship, Department of Science & Technology, Govt. of India

2013

GD Birla Gold Medal, Indian Institute of Metals

2012

JC Bose Fellowship, Department of Science & Technology, Govt. of India

2010

Fellow, American Ceramic Society

2009

Fellow, Indian National Science Academy, Indian Institute of Metals

2008

Satish Dhawan Professor, Indian National Academy of Engineering

2006 

Alumni Award for Excellence in Research for Engineering, Indian Institute of Science

2005

Fellow, Indian Academy of Engineering

2004

Fellow, National Academy of Sciences

2003

Fellow, Indian Academy of Sciences

2000

National Metallurgist Day Award, Indian Institute of Metals

1997

Materials Research Society of India Medal Lecture

1983

Presidential Scholar, Electron Microscopy Society of America

1972

Commonwealth Scholarship to study for the Advanced Level in the UK

 

Professional activities (*at present)

 

President

Indian Structural Integrity Society*

Research Council   

Defence Metallurgical Research Laboratory

Advanced Research Centre International (Chairman, Technical Advisory Board)*

Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute of Medical Science & Technology

Board of School of Engg. Sciences & Tech., Univ. of Hyderabad

National Institute of Engineering (Mysore)

Kongu Engineering College, Erode*

Chairman

Materials, Metallurgy and Minerals Programme Advisory Committee, DST

Project Assessment and Review Committee (Coatings-GTMAP- Aeronautical R&D Board)

Associate Editor

Journal of the American Ceramic Society*

Materials Science & Engineering-B*

Bulletin of Materials Science

Trans. IIM,

Trans. ICerS

Member

Empowered Committee (SERB)*

Research Council-AMPRI Bhopal

American Ceramic Society

Materials Research Society of India 

Indian Institute of Metals 

Reviewer

Journal of the American Ceramic Society

Journal of Materials Research

Materials Science and Engineering

J Materials Science, etc.

 

Patents

 

A Process for Producing Wear Resistant Ceramics

No.860/Mas/94, Inventors: V. Jayaram, R. Manna, M. G. Kshetrapal and S. K. Biswas

A Method of Making Aluminum Matrix Composites by Pressureless infiltration of Liquid Metal

No.2359/Mas/97, Inventors: B. Srinivasa Rao and V. Jayaram

A Method of Making Al rich and AlN rich Matrix Composites by Pressureless infiltration of molten Aluminum Alloys using an Exteranl Getter

No.365/Mas/2000, Inventors: B. Srinivasa Rao and V. Jayaram

An improved anode composition for internal reforming solid oxide fuel cell and a process for fabrication thereof

S Senthil Kumar, S T Aruna and B Shri Prakash (National Aerospace Laboratories) and Vikram Jayaram (IISc) 

A system and method for determination of power law creep parameters from a single bending test 

Syed Idrees Afzal Jalali, Praveen Kumar, Vikram Jayaram  

IN Patent App. 201,941,028,031

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