Speakers
Plenary Speakers
Prof. Bikramjit Basu
Materials Research Center
Indian Institute of Science (IISc),
Bangalore, India
Mr. Venkatamurugan N.S
National Head
Operations & Head - DTI (India)
Saint Gobain Private Limited-Glass Business
Mr. Suman Kumar Bal
CSMO
Joint President
Hindalco Speciality Alumina
Arghya Mukherjee
Vice President - Operations
Prism Johnson Limited
Dr. Suraj Rengarajan
Managing Director-SPG India
Applied Materials.
Invited Speakers
Prof. Abhishek Sarkar
Materials Science and
Engineering,
Indian Institute of Technology,
Delhi, India.
Dr. Ajay Kaushal
Centre for Materials for Electronics Technology (C-MET), Hyderabad, India.
Dr. Ajay Kumar Kalyani
Metallurgical and Materials Engineering,
Indian Institute of Technology,
Patna, India.
Dr. M R Ajith
Advanced Materials Group Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC), Indian Space Research Organisation, Thiruvananthapuram, India.
Prof. Amartya Mukhopadhyay
Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science,
Indian Institute of Technology,
Bombay, India.
Dr. Anil Gopala
Labindia Analytical Instruments Pvt. Ltd, India.
Dr. Anuj Goyal
Materials Science and
Metallurgical Engineering,
Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, India.
Dr. Anuja Datta
School of Applied & Interdisciplinary Sciences
Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata, India.
Dr. Apurv Dash
Department of Energy Conversion and Storage
Technical University of Denmark, Denmark.
Dr. Arup Das Gupta
Metallurgy and Materials Group, Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR), Kalpakkam, India.
Dr. Ashish Ganvir
Materials and Mechanical Engineering,
University of Turku, Finland.
Prof. Ashutosh Gandhi
Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science,
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India.
Prof. Ashutosh Kumar Dubey
Ceramic Engineering,
Indian Institute of Technology,
BHU, Varanasi India.
Basavraja Madivala Gurappa
Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.
Dr. rer. nat. Branko Matovic
Vinča Institute of Nuclear Sciences, University of Belgrade, Serbia.
Mr. Chandresh Agarwal
AEC Overseas Consultants, Green Ceramics, India.
Dr. Charlie O’Mohany
University of Limerick, Ireland.
Dr. Charuta Kulkarni
School of Sustainability
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India.
Dr. rer. nat. Dejan Zagorac
Vinča Institute of Nuclear Sciences, University of Belgrade, Serbia.
Dr. Devinder Yadav
Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Patna, India.
Dr. Dibakar Das
School of Engineering Sciences & Technology
University of Hyderabad, India.
Prof. Dr. Dietrich Wolf
University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany.
Dillip K. Satapathy
Department of Physics,
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India.
Prof. DLVK Prasad
Department of Chemistry,
Indian Institute of Technology,
Kanpur, India.
Dr. Doni Daniel
Department of Aerospace and Aircraft Engineering,
Kingston University,
London, UK.
Dr. Emanuel Ionescu
Fraunhofer Research Institution for Materials Recycling and Resource Strategies IWKS, Germany.
Dr. Ganesh Babu
CeraTattva InnoTech,
Chennai, India.
Dr. Gopi Chandran
Applied Materials,
Mumbai, India.
Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Günter Motz
Ceramic Materials Engineering, University of Bayreuth, Germany.
Dr. Hariprasad Gopalan
Metallurgical and Materials Engineering,
Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar, India.
Prof. K C Hari Kumar
Metallurgical and Materials Engineering,
Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India.
Prof. Heechae Choi
Department of Chemistry, School of Science,
Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China.
Dr. Ivana Cvijović-Alagić
Vinča Institute of Nuclear Sciences,
University of Belgrade, Serbia.
Dr. Karthiselva N.S.
Carborundum Universal (CUMI), India
Prof. Lakshman Neelakantan
Metallurgical and Materials Engineering,
Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India.
Dr. Lalith Kumar Bhaskar
Department of Structure and Nano-/Micromechanics of Materials
Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung GmbH, Germany.
Dr. Manish Patel
Defence Metallurgical and Research Laboratory (DMRL), (DRDO), Hyderabad, India.
Dr. S Manisha Vidyavathy
Ceramic Technology,
Anna University, India.
Dr. Manjusha Battabyal
Department of Physics
Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design and Manufacturing, Kancheepuram, India.
Dr. BV Manoj Kumar
Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering,
Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, Roorkee, India.
Dr. Martin Schwentenwein
Lithoz GmbH
Vienna, Austria.
Dr. Maxence Paul Bruno Bourjol
3DCeram Sinto Tiwari GmbH, Berlin, Germany.
Prof. Mohammad Imteyaz Ahmad
Ceramic Engineering,
Indian Institute of Technology,
BHU, Varanasi, India.
Dr. Nadimpalli Venkata Karthik
Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering
Denmark Technical University, Denmark.
Mr. Naveen Viswabaskaran
VBCC High Temperature Instruments Pvt. Ltd., Chennai, India.
Prof. Palani Balaya
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
National University of Singapore, Singapore.
Dr. Pankaj K Patro
Powder Metallurgy Group, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, India.
Prof. Parag Bhargava
Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science,
Indian Institute of Technology,
Bombay, India.
Dr. Parasuraman Swaminathan
Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India.
Prof. Paula Maria Vilarinho
Department of Materials and Ceramics Engineering, University of Aveiro, Portugal.
Dr. Peter Tatarko
Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia.
Prof. Pradip Kumar Roy
Ceramic Engineering,
Indian Institute of Technology, BHU, Varanasi, India.
Dr. Prashant Kumar
School of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE)
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Prof. Rahul Mitra
Metallurgical and Materials Engineering,
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India.
B.V. Rajasekhar
Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC),
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), Thiruvananthapuram, India.
Dr. Rajeev Ranjan
Materials Engineering,
Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India.
Prof. Dr. Ralf Riedel
Materials and Resources Group,
Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany.
Prof. Ranjit Kumar Nanda B
Department of Physics,
Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India.
Dr. Ravi Mohan Prasad
Metallurgical and Materials Engineering,
Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar, India.
Prof. Ryo Maezono
School of Information Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST), Japan.
Mr. Sabyasachi Roy
CEO & Managing Director, Ceramat Private Limited, India.
Dr. Saikat Deb Acharya
Advanced Mechanical and Materials Characterization Division, CSIR- Central Glass & Ceramic Research Institute, Kolkata, India.
Prof. Dr. Sammy Lap Ip Chan
School of Materials Science and Engineering,
University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
Prof. Sampath Kumar T.S
Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India
Dr. Samuel Bernard
CNRS Institute of Research for Ceramics (IRCER),
Limoges, France.
Prof. Santi Maensiri
Institute of Science, Suranaree University of Technology, Thailand.
Prof. Santanu Das
Ceramic Engineering,
Indian Institute of Technology,
BHU, Varanasi, India.
Dr. Shrabanee Sen
Functional Materials & Devices Division, CSIR- Central Glass & Ceramic Research Institute (CGCRI), Kolkata, India.
Dr. Satya Kishore
Performance Ceramics & Refractories R&D,
Saint Gobain Research, India.
Prof. Shantanu Kumar Behera
Department of Ceramic Engineering,
National Institute of Technology, Rourkela. India
Dr. Shotaro Tada
Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering,
Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India.
Prof. Dr. -Ing. Silke Christiansen
Correlative Microscopy and Materials Data,
Fraunhofer Institute for Ceramic
Technologies and Systems IKTS, Germany.
Dr. Sirish Namilae
Department of Aerospace Engineering
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, Florida, USA.
Dr. Sreeja R
Lightweight Ceramics and Coatings Section
Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC), Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), Thiruvananthapuram, India.
Dr. Srinivasan Nedunchezhian
Department of Materials Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology, Jammu, India.
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Stefan Schafföner
Head of Chair of Ceramic Materials Engineering, University of Bayreuth, Germany.
Prof. Sujith Ravindran
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani, Hyderabad Campus, India.
Dr. Surendra Babu Anantharaman
Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India.
Prof. Suryanaranyana Vikrant Karra
Materials Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India.
Dr Susmita Kundu
Functional Materials & Devices Division, CSIR- Central Glass & Ceramic Research Institute (CGCRI), Kolkata, India
Dr. Svetlana Butulija
Vinča Institute of Nuclear Sciences
University of Belgrade, Serbia.
Prof. Syed Ansar Md Tofail
Department of Physics
University of Limerick, Ireland.
Dr. Tamoghna Chakrabarti
Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Patna, India.
Dr. Udayakumar Andi
CSIR-National Aerospace Laboratories, Karnataka, India.
Dr. Uthamalingam Balachandran
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Colarado-Boulder, USA
Dr. Vamsi Krishna Balla
Bioceramics & Coatings Division, Central Glass and Ceramic Research Institute (CGCRI), Kolkata, India.
Dr. Venkata Srinu Bhadram
Department of Physics, Krea University, Andhra Pradesh, India.
Prof. Dr. Vladimir V. Srdic
University of Novi Sad,
Serbia.
Prof. Yuji Iwamoto
Nagoya Institute of Technology, Nagoya, Japan.
Dr. Zoltán Lenčéš
Institute of Inorganic Chemistry
Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia.
Prof. Lakshman Neelakatan
Metallurgical and Materials Engineering,
Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India.
B V Rajashekar
Scientist/Engineer-F,
Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, ISRO, India.
Dr. Atiar Rahaman Molla
Speciality Glass Technology Division, CGCRI, Kolkata, India.
Dr. Kaushik Biswas
Speciality Glass Division,
Central Glass and Ceramic Research Institute (CGCRI),
Kolkata, India.
Dr. Renjith Devasia
Scientist, Engineer G
Division Head- Ceramic Matrix Product Division, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, ISRO, India.
Dr. Maxim Sokol
Department of Materials Science and Engineering,
Tel Aviv University, Israel
Dr. Nitin Dhingra
Somany Impresa Group, Hindware Limited, Gurugram, India.
Dr. Mohammed Rashad
Assistant Professor
Metallurgical and Materials Engineering,
National Institute of Technology,
Trichy.
Mr. Sitendu Mandal
Chief Scientist & Head
Speciality Glass Division,
Central Glass and Ceramic Research
Institute (CGCRI), Kolkata, India.
Dr. Alankar
Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India.
Prof. Zhaoju Yu
College of Materials Xiamen University, P.R. China
Dr. Anup Kumar Keshri
Associate Professor
Metallurgical and Materials Engineering,
Indian Institute of Technology,
Patna.
Ulrich Degenhart
QSIL Ingenieurkeramik GmbH
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