Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering | Indian Institute Of Technology Madras , Chennai
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Pradeep K G

Assistant Professor

+91 44 2257 4764

kgprad [at] iitm [dot] ac [dot] in

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  • 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

  1. 2023-IITM Young Faculty Mobility Grant Award
  2. 2018-Awarded Head - Max-Planck India Partner Group
  3. 2014-Borchers Plakette award of RWTH Aachen University, Germany
  4. 2010-Max-Planck Fellowship
  5. 2009-DAAD IIT Master Sandwich Scholarship