Dr. Naresh Thadhani

Biography

Naresh N. Thadhani is a Professor and Chair at the Georgia Institute of Technology's George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, with expertise in Materials Science Engineering. He earned his Ph.D. from the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in 1984. His research focuses on shock-induced physical, chemical, and mechanical changes in materials. Thadhani has developed numerous high-strain-rate experimental techniques and computational methodologies to analyze and characterize the mechanical properties of metals, ceramics, polymers, and composites under high-rate impact loading conditions. He has published over a hundred articles in various journals and has served as an editor for the Springer Series on Shock Compression. With a rich history of leadership roles, he is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and has held positions such as Past Chair for the APS-SCCM Awards Committee and Past President of the Alpha Sigma Mu Materials Honor Society. His current research group includes a principal research scientist, post-doctoral fellows, Ph.D. students, and undergraduates, and he has helped graduate over thirty Ph.D. and M.S. students. Thadhani's contributions span over dynamic compaction of powders, phase transformations, and the behavior of metallic glasses and nanocrystalline alloys.

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