Prof. Nagamani Jaya Balila

Biography

Prof. Nagamani Jaya Balila, is in the Department of Metallurgical Engineering & Materials Science IIT Bombay, India. Awards & Recognition Appointed Head of the Partner Group of the Max Planck Institut fuer Eisenforschung GmbH at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, 2016 Acta Materialia 2015 Certificate of Excellence in Reviewing, 2015. MPI scholarship grant for post-doctoral research (3 years) at Max Planck Institut fuer Eisenforschung GmbH, 2013-2016. CSIR Travel Grant and IIM-SJEF grant for presenting at TMS-2013. Best poster award in the ECI conference on Nanomechanical Testing in Materials Research and Development, Canary Islands, Spain, 2011 Best presentation award in the National Metallurgical Day-2010 (Mechanical Behavior category), Bangalore, 2010 Best poster award at ISRS, IIT Madras, Chennai, 2010 Best metallography picture in the metallography contest in the Students Symposium, Materials Engineering Dept, IISc Bangalore, 2009 Institute of Engineers Award and Metallurgical Engineering Association Award for securing 2nd rank in B Tech in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, NITK, India, 2007 All India Rank 2 in Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) for Metallurgical Engineering; Recipient of MHRD fellowship for GATE scholars, 2007 Indian Institute of Foundry Cash Prize for securing highest marks in Foundry Technology in B.Tech. NITK, 2007

Research Interest

Mechanical behavior of materials Nanoindentation and Nano-/micro-mechanics Interface engineering and design of damage tolerant brittle matrix composites Electro-thermo-mechanical failure in thin films, hard coatings and semiconductor device materials Elastic strain engineering of functional oxide nanostructures