Education

• 1991-1994: PhD in Materials Science and Engineering, Brown University, USA.
  Dissertation: "High-Temperature Subcritical Crack Growth in Si-Based Structural Ceramics"
  Thesis Advisor: Professor Subra Suresh (now at MIT)
• 1989-1991: MEng (First Class with Distinction) in Metallurgy
  Thesis: "Effect of Heat Treatment and Li depletion on Mechanical Properties of Al-Li alloys"
  Thesis Advisor: Professor E. S. Dwarakadasa
• 1985-1989: BEng (First Class with Distinction) in Metallurgy Andhra University

Awards and Honours

• Swarnajayanthi Fellowship (Engineering Sciences) 2008.
• Scopus Young Scientist in Materials Science for the year 2007.
• Listed in Essential Science Indicators (ESI), which tracks top 1% of scientists, in the Materials Science category since July 2007.
• University Fellowship, Brown University, September 1991-May 1992.
• K. P. Abraham Medal (Best M.E. Dissertation). I.I.Sc. 1991.
• A. A. Krishnan Medal (Highest GPA in the M. E. Class of '91) I.I.Sc. 1991.
• Alumni Merit Scholarship, Andhra University, 1985-89.
• First Rank, B. E. Class of '89, Andhra University, 1985-89.

Selected Sponsored Projects

• 2007-2010: Mechanical Properties at the Nano-scale. Department of Science & Technology.
• 2006-2010: Boron-Modified Ti Alloys. Boeing Corp.
• 2006-2007: Characterization of Ni-Ti Shape Memory Alloys. VSSC, Trivandrum.
• 2005-2007: Fatigue in Shape Memory Alloy Wires. General Motors.
• 2005-2006: Fatigue and Fracture Behavior of affordable Ti-B alloys. Asian Office of the Air Force Research & Development, USA.

Selected Publications

• P. Murali, U. Ramamurty, and V. B. Shenoy,
  "Factors Influencing deformation Stability of Binary Glasses", Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 128, 104508, 2008.
• P. Tandaiya R. Narasimhan a, U. Ramamurty, "Mode I crack tip fields in amorphous materials with application to metallic glasses", Acta Materialia, vol. 55, pp. 6541-6552, 2007.
• G. Srikant, N. Chollacoop, and U. Ramamurty,
  "Effect of Yield Stress and Work Hardening Exponent on Plastic Strain Distribution Underneath the Vickers Indenter" Acta Materialia, vol. 54, pp. 5171-78, 2006.
• N. Suresh and U. Ramamurty, "Effect of Aging on the Damping Properties of Cu-Al-Ni Shape Memory Alloys", Smart Materials and Structures, vol. 14, N47-N51, 2005.
• S. Jana, R. Bhowmik, Y. Kawamura, K. Chattopadhyay, and U. Ramamurty, "Deformation Morphology Underneath the Vickers Indent in a Zr-based Bulk Metallic Glass", Intermetallics, vol. 12, pp. 1097-1102, 2004.