Prof. Subhash Mahajan

Subhash Mahajan received his undergraduate and graduate education, respectively, at the Indian Institute of Science and the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to his current position, he was a Regents’ Professor and a Fulton Technical Fellow in the Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering, Arizona State University (ASU). At ASU, he held administrative appointments: Chair of the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science from 2000 to 2006, and Founding Director of the School of Materials from 2006 to 2009. He also had appointments at the University of Denver; The Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell, England; Bell Telephone Laboratories, Murray Hill; and Carnegie Mellon University.

Prof. Mahajan’s research focuses on two thematic areas: structure-property relationships in functional materials and deformation behavior of solids. Over the years, he received many awards for making excellent contributions to research and education of electronic materials: Fellow of ASM, MRS, and TMS; the John Bardeen and 2004 Educator Awards from TMS, and the Albert Sauveur Achievement award from ASM; and received the ASM Gold Medal in 2011. In 2013 he received the Albert Easton Distinguished Teacher Award. He recently received the Distinguished Alumnus Award of the Alumni Association of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and most recently, he received the 2018 Acta Materialia Gold Medal Award. He delivered the Campbell Lecture of ASM in 2007 and the Lee Hsun Lecture of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2009. He is a Member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Foreign Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering.