Atul Harish Chokshi was born on 1958 and is an Indian materials scientist, metallurgical engineer and a professor at the Department of Materials Engineering of the Indian Institute of Science.
10 Facts About Atul Chokshi
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Atul Chokshi is known for his studies on high temperature deformation and failure of ceramic materials and is an elected fellow of all the three major Indian science academies viz.
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Atul Chokshi, born on 24 March 1958, gained his bachelor's degree in metallurgical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras in 1980 and went to the US for higher studies.
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Atul Chokshi is known to be one of the pioneers of research on the mechanical behavior of nanomaterials and his work elucidated the deformation mechanisms leading to superplasticity.
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Atul Chokshi's work covered cavitation failure, superimposition of hydrostatic pressure and creep of materials such as alumina, ceramics, ceramic composites and magnesium alloys.
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Atul Chokshi has documented his researches in over 135 articles and the online article repository of the Indian Academy of Sciences has listed 115 of them.
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Atul Chokshi was one of the scientists who reported the strengthening in nanometals and contributed to the establishment of a creep and tensile testing laboratory for examining superplasticity in ceramics at the University of California, San Diego.
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Atul Chokshi was instrumental in setting up a similar laboratory at the Indian Institute of Science with facilities for electro sinter forging for ceramics and electrophoretic deposition for nanocrystalline metals.
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Atul Chokshi served as a member of the International Advisory Boards of the 1997,2000 and 2003 editions of the International Conference on Superplasticity in Advanced Materials and has served as a visiting faculty at a number of universities in the US, Europe and Japan.
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Atul Chokshi received the Swarnajayanti Young Scientist Award from the President of India in 1998 and two years later, the Materials Research Society of India awarded him the MRSI Medal for the year 2000.