Subhradeep Chatterjee

Subhradeep Chatterjee is an Associate Professor at the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad. He holds a PhD in Materials Engineering from IISc Bangalore and has previously worked at Larsen & Toubro Ltd. R&D and the Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials in the Netherlands. His research focuses on phase transformations, microstructural evolution in metallic alloys, and computational modelling of welding/additive manufacturing processes.

• Education: PhD (IISc Bangalore), ME (Metallurgy, IISc Bangalore), BE (Metallurgical Engineering, R.E. College Durgapur)

His research interests span phase transformations during materials processing, microstructural characterization using electron microscopy and X-ray diffraction, and computational models like phase-field and finite element methods. Recent work includes phase separation in thin films, welding of superalloys, and additive manufacturing of high entropy alloys (HEAs). Collaborations involve colleagues at IIT Hyderabad (Prof. Rajesh, Suryakumar) and Dr. Dheepa Srinivasan from Pratt & Whitney.

Key publication trends include studies on spinodal decomposition in Ag-Cu thin films, welding process optimization for superalloys, and microstructure-property correlations in HEAs and metallic nanoparticles. His group integrates experimental and computational approaches to link thermodynamics, kinetics, and material performance.

Current and past students include Athira K.S. (PhD on superalloy welding), Vivek Chaitanya Peddiraju (Ag-Cu thin films), Pankaj Bandaru (phase-field models for nanoparticles), and Upender Sunkari (HEAs with niobium alloying). MTech scholars like Lakhvinder Khairwal (Haynes 282 welding) and Indu Kolapalli (AM of XH67 superalloy) have also contributed to his research program.