Upadrasta Ramamurty | |
Birth Date: | 1967 |
Birth Place: | Bhimavaram, West Godavari district |
Nationality: | Indian |
Awards: | Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar award |
Upadrasta Ramamurty (born 1967) is an Indian engineering scientist. He holds a position as a professor in the Department of Materials Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science.
He has a Ph.D. (1994) from Brown University, a master's degree in engineering (1991) from the Indian Institute of Science, and a bachelor's degree in engineering (1989) from Andhra University.[1]
He was awarded in 2011 the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, the highest science award in India, in the engineering category.[2] In 2015, he was awarded the TWAS Prize in the engineering category for his fundamental contributions to the understanding of deformation, fatigue and fracture in several classes of new materials.[3] [4]