Dr. K. G. Pradeep joined the Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering at IIT Madras in May 2018. He completed his PhD from Max-Planck Institut für Eisenforschung GmbH, Düsseldorf and RWTH Aachen University, Germany He was also a visiting scientist at Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany. Prior to joining IIT Madras, he was the Group Leader for Atom Probe Tomography at RWTH Aachen University, Germany. He received his M.Tech in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering from IIT Madras and B.E. in Metallurgical Engineering from Government College of Engineering, Salem, Anna University, India.
His research interest lies in the areas of Alloy Design including combinatorial and additive approaches, Correlative Microscopy along with method development. He specializes in the fields of Physical Metallurgy, Magnetic materials, Atom Probe Tomography, Field Ion Microscopy, Transmission Kikuchi Diffraction, Mechanical Behaviour of materials and In-situ method development.
Combinatorial Alloy Design
Correlative Microscopy
Magnetic Materials
Atom Probe Tomography and Field Ion Microscopy
Multi-component High Entropy Alloys and Steels
2024 - till date
2018 - 2024
Associate Professor
Assistant Professor
2023-IITM Young Faculty Mobility Grant Award
2018-Awarded Head - Max-Planck India Partner Group
2014-Borchers Plakette award of RWTH Aachen University, Germany