Prof. B.S. Murty is an Institute Professor and Girija & R. Muralidharan Chair Professor at the department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, IIT Madras, India. His academic journey started with a Diploma in Metallurgy in 1983 followed by BE from VRCE Nagpur in 1986 and ME from IISc Bangalore in 1988. He obtained his PhD (1992) also from IISc, Bangalore. After serving at IIT Kharagpur for 12 years, he has been a Professor at IIT Madras since 2004. He is also currently an Adjunct Professor at Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada since 2011 and also an Associate faculty of School of Engineering, University of British Columbia, Canada since 2016.
Nanocrystalline materials
High entropy alloys
Bulk metallic glasses
Thermodynamics and kinetics of phase transformations
Transmission electron microscopy and atom probe tomography
2004 - till date
Professor
2019-INAE Outstanding Teacher Award
2019-2022-Member, SERB Distinguished Investigator Award (DIA) committee
2018-Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences-FTWAS
2018-Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences-FTWAS
