Dr Murugaiyan Amirthalingam has been working as an assistant professor in the Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering (MME), IIT-Madras, since 2016. He is currently the head of joining and additive manufacturing laboratory, faculty in charge of Gleeble-Thermomechanical simulation laboratory and Physical Metallurgy Laboratory in the department of MME, IIT-Madras. He supervises 11 PhD and 4 MS students in joining and additive manufacturing. His research area of interest includes welding process development, welding metallurgy, metal additive manufacturing, hydrogen embrittlement and 3D synchrotron X-ray diffraction.
Before joining IIT-Madras, he was a post-doctoral researcher in the Materials Science and Engineering department, faculty of MME, Delft University of Technology (TU-Delft), The Netherlands, from 2009 to 2015 and a PhD researcher from 2005 to 2009 in the same department in TU-Delft, The Netherlands.
He received the Kenneth Easterling award in 2015 from the International Institute of Welding (IIW) for contributing to the mathematical modelling of weld phenomena. He also received the Dr Placid Rodriguez's memorial lecture award and IT Mirchandani Research Award in 2020 from the Indian Institute of Welding. He was a member of the Technical Management Board (TMB) of the International Institute of Welding (IIW) from 2018 to 2020 and an expert member and national delegate of Commissions IX, XII and study group 212 of IIW. He has published nearly 45 international journal publications in joining and additive manufacturing and presented nearly 60 papers at international conferences. So far, he has executed five sponsored and five industrial consultancy projects in welding and additive manufacturing.
Welding metallurgy
Welding processes development
Steels product development
In-situ 3D synchrotron X-ray diffraction
Additive manufacturing
2022 - till date
2016 - 2022
Associate Professor
Assistant Professor
2015-First and only recipient of Welding torch of honour for academic contributions to the welding technology group of Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
2015-Kenneth easterling best paper award from International Institute of Welding
2012-Part of the team that successfully designed and fabricated a high temperature 3D-XRD furnace for in- situ experiments at ID11 of European Synchrotron Radiation Facility
2010-PhD thesis was nominated for Henry Granjon prize from the Netherlands for the best thesis in the category of Metallurgy of Welding
