Prof. Ratna Kumar Annabattula

Prof. (Dr.) Ratna Kumar Annabattula is currently an Associate Professor in the department of Mechanical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai. He received his PhD (micromechanics of materials) in 2011 from the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. He obtained his ME in 2004 from Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru and BE in 2002 from College of Engineering, Andhra University both in Mechanical Engineering. Prior to starting his PhD, he worked for about a year with General Electric India Technology Center, Bangalore. Before joining as a faculty at IIT Madras, he was a postdoc researcher at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany. His research interests are in the area of mechanics of stimuli-responsive materials, granular materials and multi physics modeling of materials with applications to lithium ion batteries and nuclear fusion.
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