Sondipon Adhikari

Professor Sondipon Adhikari (FRAeS)
Professor of Engineering Mechanics
James Watt School of Engineering
The University of Glasgow
Glasgow G12 8QQ, United Kingdom
Phone: + 44 (0) 141 330 2032
Email: Sondipon.Adhikari@glasgow.ac.uk, Sondipon.Adhikari@gmail.com
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Professional Activities


Current and Past Employments

  1. 10/2021-Present: Professor of Engineering Mechanics, The University of Glasgow.
  2. 04/2007-09/2021: Chair of Aerospace Engineering, Swansea University.
  3. 01/2003-03/2007: Lecturer in dynamics: Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Bristol.
  4. 11/2000-12/2002: Research Associate, Cambridge University Engineering Department.

Visiting and Honorary Positions

  1. 02/2020-01/2022: Visiting Professor, IIT Kanpur.
  2. 11/2019-01/2020: High-end foreign expert (Category A) visiting Professor at the Central South University, Changsha, China.
  3. 07/2019-08/2019: SPARC visiting Professor at IIT Kanpur.
  4. 03/2019-05/2019: LabEx visiting Professor at Ecole Centrale de Lyon.
  5. 03/2018-04/2018: Visiting Professor at the Rice University, Houston, TX, USA.
  6. 05/2017-06/2017: Visiting Professor at the University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA.
  7. 01/2016-02/2016: LabEx visiting Professor at the University of Paris East (Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée).
  8. 06/2015-05/2021: Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Johannesburg.
  9. 05/2008-12/2008: Academic visitor to the Cambridge University Engineering Department.
  10. 06/2008-02/2009: Visiting Fellow of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge.
  11. 04/2007-04/2012: Research Fellow, University of Bristol.
  12. 07/2006-08/2006: Visiting Scientist, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA.
  13. 06/2006-07/2006: Visiting Professor, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.
  14. 09/2004-08/2009: EPSRC Advanced Research Fellow.
  15. 08/2001-01/2003: Junior Research Fellow, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge.
  16. 01/1998-10/2000: Cambridge University Engineering Department: Laboratory demonstrator for first and third-year students in vibration engineering, supervisor in mechanics and structures for Kings College, and Pembroke College, Cambridge.
  17. 06/1996-09/1997: Project Assistant: Civil Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

Leadership Roles

  1. 07/2023-Present: Head of Infrastructure & Environment Research Division, James Watt School of Engineering, The University of Glasgow
  2. 10/2019-09/2021: Leader of the Digital Manufacturing Research Cluster within FMRI (Future Manufacturing Research Institute).
  3. 01/2021-09/2021: Leader of the Aerospace Engineering and Structures Research Groups within ZCCE (The Zienkiewicz Centre for Computational Engineering).

Editorial Roles

  1. 05/2023-Present: Editorial Board member of Frontiers in Built Environment .
  2. 08/2021-Present: Editorial Board member of the Advanced Materials Science and Technology Journal.
  3. 11/2019-Present: Editorial Board member of the ISSS Journal of Micro and Smart Systems.
  4. 02/2019-Present: Editorial Board member of the Reviews on Advanced Materials Science.
  5. 06/2018-Present: Guest Editor, International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics (NLM): Special Issue on "Non-Linear Dynamics of Micro- and Nano- Electro-Mechanical Systems".
  6. 09/2018-Present: Editorial Board member of the International Journal of Aeronautics and Aerospace Engineering (IJAE).
  7. 09/2017-Present: Editorial Advisory Board member of Computers and Structures.
  8. 09/2017-Present: Editorial Board member of Applied Sciences (Mechanical Engineering).
  9. 11/2016-Present: Editorial Board member of Advances in Aircraft and Spacecraft Science.
  10. 06/2015-Present: Editorial Board member of Probabilistic Engineering Mechanics.
  11. 03/2014-Present: Editorial Board member of Journal of Nanotechnology in Diagnosis and Treatment.
  12. 01/2014-Present: Editorial Board member of Austin Journal of Nanomedicine & Nanotechnology.
  13. 10/2013-Present: Editorial Board member of Nanoscience & Technology: Open Access.
  14. 08/2012-Present: Editorial Board member of Nanomaterials & Molecular Nanotechnology.
  15. 02/2012-Present: Editorial Board member of the Journal of Aeronautics & Aerospace Engineering.
  16. 11/2011-Present: Editorial Board member of the International Journal of Applied Engineering and Technology.
  17. 07/2011-Present: Editorial Board member of CMES: Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences.
  18. 06/2011-Present: Editorial Board member of CMC: Computers, Materials, & Continua.
  19. 03/2011-Present: Editorial Board member of Machines: Machinery and Automation.
  20. 06/2010-Present: Editorial Board member of Modelling and Simulation in Engineering.
  21. 08/2009-Present: Editorial Board member of the International Journal of Mathematics in Engineering, Science and Aerospace (MESA).
  22. 03/2009-Present: Editorial Advisory Board member of the Journal of Sound and Vibration.
  23. 01/2009-Present: Editorial Board member of the International Journal of Engineering Under Uncertainty: Hazards, Assessment and Mitigation.
  24. 10/2008-Present: Editorial Advisory Board member of The Open Numerical Methods Journal.
  25. 12/2007-Present: Editorial Advisory Board member of The Open Acoustics Journal.
  26. 01/2006-10/2012: Associate Editor of Shock and Vibration.

Association with Professional Bodies and Academies

  1. 05/2022-Present: Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales (FLSW).
  2. 04/2017-Present: Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society (FRAeS).
  3. 04/2016-04/2017: Member of The International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE).
  4. 11/2012-Present: Associate Fellow of American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA).
  5. 10/2012-10/2015: Member of Special Interest Group (SIG) on Uncertainty Quantification and Management in High-Value Manufacturing.
  6. 07/2012-07/2012: Member of GAMM Activity Group Uncertainty Quantification (AG UQ).
  7. 01/2010-01/2012: Member of American Society Of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).
  8. 05/2007-05/2011: Member of the Stochastic Process and Stochastic Analysis Cluster of the Wales Institute of Mathematical and Computational Sciences (WIMCS).
  9. 04/2007-10/2012: Senior Member of American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA).
  10. 10/2005-10/2009: Member of Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) peer review college.
  11. 08/2005-08/2008: Associate Member of The Institute of Nanotechnology (IoN).
  12. 02/2005-02/2011: Member of Uncertainty Quantification and Model Validation (UQMV) technical division of SEM.
  13. 07/2004-07/2014: Member of AIAA Non-Deterministic Approaches Technical committee (NDA-TC).
  14. 04/2004-03/2007:Member of American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA).
  15. 02/1999-02/2001: Member of Society for Experimental Mechanics (SEM).
  16. 11/1998-10/2002: Fellow of Cambridge Philosophical Society.

Organisation of Conferences/Workshops

  1. IIT-Glasgow Workshop on Dynamics of Advanced Structures, Glasgow, UK, June 2023
  2. Glasgow-Edinburgh Mechanics Meeting, Glasgow, UK, April 2023.
  3. RAEng DVF Workshop on Aero-Structure Dynamics, Swansea, UK, February 2019.
  4. Fourth Embraer Workshop on Aeroelastic Tailoring, Swansea, UK, July 2018.
  5. Euromech Colloquium 603 Dynamics of Micro and Nano Electromechanical Systems: Multi-Field Modelling and Analysis, Porto, Portugal September 2018.
  6. 6th International ASRANet Conference, London, Croydon, UK July 2012.
  7. Bristol Meeting on Uncertainty in Structural Dynamics (BmUSD 06), Bristol, April 2006.

Organisation of Special Sessions in Conferences

  1. Mechanical and Acoustic Metamaterials, 14th World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM XIV), Paris, France, July 2020 (with Maria Cinefra, Politecnico di Torino; Chiara Daraio, California Institute of Technology).
  2. Uncertainty Quantification and Propagation in Heterogeneous Materials, 14th World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM XIV), Paris, France, July 2020 (with A. Sofi, University "Mediterranea" of Reggio Calabria; G. Falsone, University of Messina).
  3. Static and Dynamic Analysis of Beam-like Structures, 14th World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM XIV), Paris, France, July 2020 (with Alessandro Palmeri, Loughborough University).
  4. Stochastic inverse problems in linear and nonlinear dynamics, Fourth International Symposium on Uncertainty Quantification and Stochastic Modeling (UNCERTAINTIES 2018), Florianopolis, Brazil, April 2018 (with Dr A Batou, University of Liverpool; Thiago G Ritto, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)).
  5. Vibration Energy Harvesting, 6th International Conference on Computational Methods in Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering (COMPDYN 2017), Rodos , Greece, June 2017 (with Dr A Batou, University of Liverpool).
  6. Stochastic Modeling and Uncertainty Quantification, ASCE / Engineering Mechanics Institute (EMI) Conference, Rodos , Greece, June 2017 (with Rubens Sampaio (PUC-Rio) and Fernando Rochinha (COPPE)).
  7. Vibration Energy Harvesting, 1st International Symposium on Energy Challenges and Mechanics, Aberdeen, Scotland, July 2014 (with Professor Grzegorz Litak, Lublin University of Technology, Poland).
  8. Nanomaterial Development for Biomedical Applications, ASME First Global Congress on NanoEngineering for Medicine and Biology (NEMB2010), Houston, TX, February 2010 (with Professor Donggang Yao, Georgia Institute of technology, USA).
  9. Uncertainty Quantification and Propagation, Computational Methods in Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering (COMPDYN 2007), Crete, Greece, June 2007 (with Professor M. I. Friswell, University of Bristol).
  10. Experimental Approaches for Uncertainty Quantification in Structural Dynamics, International Modal Analysis Conference (IMAC XXV), Orlando, Florida USA, January 2007 (with Professor M. I. Friswell, University of Bristol).
  11. Dynamics of Viscoelastically Damped Structures, The Eighth International Conference on Computational Structures Technology, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, September 2006 (with Professor G. Muscolino, DIC, University of Messina, Italy).

Session Chairs in Conferences

  1. The 9th International Conference on Computational Methods in Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering (COMPDYN 2023), Athens, Greece, June 2023.
  2. The 8th International Conference on Computational Methods in Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering (COMPDYN 2021), Athens, Greece, June 2021 (online).
  3. The 8th International Conference on Uncertainty in Structural Dynamics (USD2020), Leuven, Belgium, September 2020 (online).
  4. 2nd International Conference on Advances in Aerospace Structures, Systems & Technology (AASST 2019), London, UK, May 2019.
  5. Euromech Colloquium 603 Dynamics of Micro and Nano Electromechanical Systems: Multi-Field Modelling and Analysis, Porto, Portugal, September 2018.
  6. The 14th International Conference on Vibration Engineering and Technology of Machinery (VETOMAC XIV), Lisbon, Portugal, September 2018.
  7. International Conference on Computational Methods in Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering (COMPDYN 2017)S, Rodos, Greece, June 2017.
  8. Sixth International Congress on Computational Mechanics and Simulation (ICCMS2016), Mumbai, India, June 2016.
  9. SPIE Smart Structures/NDE Conference, Las Vegas, NV, USA, March 2016.
  10. Thirteenth International Probabilistic Workshop 2015 (IPW 2015), Liverpool, UK, November 2015.
  11. First International Conference on Uncertainty Quantification in Computational Sciences and Engineering (UNCECOMP 2015), Island of Crete, Greece, May 2015.
  12. AIAA Science and Technology Forum and Exposition 2015 (SciTech2015): 17th AIAA Non-Deterministic Approaches Conference, Kissimmee, FL, USA, January 2015.
  13. The Twelfth International Conference on Computational Structures Technology (CST2014), Naples, Italy, September 2014.
  14. IUTAM Symposium on Dynamical Analysis of Multibody Systems with Design Uncertainties, Stuttgart, Germany, June 2014.
  15. Seventh International Conference on Computational Stochastic Mechanics (CSM7), Santorini, Greece, June 2014.
  16. IUTAM Symposium on Multiscale modeling and uncertainty quantification of materials and structures, Santorini, Greece, September 2013.
  17. 4th International Conference on Computational Methods in Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering (COMPDYN 2013), Kos Island, Greece, June 2013.
  18. 54th AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics & Materials Conference, Boston, MA, USA, April 2013.
  19. International Symposium on Dynamic Problems of Mechanics (DINAME 2013), Búzios, Brazil, February 2013.
  20. 6th International ASRANet Conference, London, Croydon, UK July, 2012.
  21. 2012 Stochastic Mechanics: An international conference, Ustica, Italy, June 2012.
  22. First International Symposium on Uncertainty Quantification and Stochastic Modeling (Uncertainties 2012), Maresias, Sao Sebastiao, Sao Paulo, Brazil, February 2012.
  23. International Symposium on Engineering under uncertainty: Safety assessment and Management (ISEUSAM- 2012), Shibpur, Howrah, India, January 2012.
  24. 52nd AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics & Materials Conference, Denver, Colorado, USA, April 2011.
  25. Fourth European Congress on Computational Mechanics (ECCM 2010), Paris, France, May 2010.
  26. ASME First Global Congress on NanoEngineering for Medicine and Biology (NEMB2010), Houston, TX, February 2010.
  27. 50th AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics & Materials Conference, Palm Springs, CA, USA, May 2009.
  28. Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Aerospace and Sciences, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy, June 2008.
  29. 49th AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics & Materials Conference, Schaumburg, IL, USA, April 2008.
  30. 48th AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics & Materials Conference, Waikiki, Hawaii, USA, April 2007.
  31. 25th International Modal Analysis Conference (IMAC-XXV), Orlando, Florida, USA, February 2007.
  32. Eighth International Conference on Computational Structures Technology, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, September 2006.
  33. Symposium on Structural Dynamics, Random Vibrations and Earthquake Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, July 2005.

Services in Scientific and Technical Committees

  1. Member of the Scientific Committee of: The 31st International Conference on Noise and Vibration Engineering (ISMA2024), Leuven, Belgium, September 2024.
  2. Member of the Scientific Committee of: The 10th International Conference on Uncertainty in Structural Dynamics (USD2024), Leuven, Belgium, September 2024.
  3. Member of the International Scientific Committee of: 4th International Conference on Vulnerability and Risk Analysis and Management (ICVRAM2024) & 8th International Symposium on Uncertainty Modelling and Analysis (ISUMA2024), Shanghai, China, April 2024.
  4. Member of the Scientific Committee of: 5th International Conference on Uncertainty Quantification in Computational Sciences and Engineering (UNCECOMP 2023), Athens, Greece, June 2021.
  5. Member of the Scientific Committee of: 9th International Conference on Computational Methods in Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering (COMPDYN 2023), Athens, Greece, June 2021.
  6. Member of the Scientific Committee of: The 10th International Conference on Wave Mechanics and Vibrations (10th WMVC), Lisbon, Portugal, July 2022.
  7. Member of the International Scientific Committee of: The 8th International Congress of the Serbian Society of Mechanics, Kragujevac, Serbia, June 2021.
  8. Member of the Scientific Committee of: Roger Owen UKACM best PhD thesis prize, January 2021.
  9. Member of the Advisory Committee of: Advances in Structural Mechanics and Applications (ASMA-2021), National Institute of Technology (NIT), Silchar, India, March 2021.
  10. Member of the Advisory Committee of: International Conference on Advances in Energy Harvesting Technology (ICAEHT 2021), Virtual Conference, March 2021.
  11. Member of the Scientific Committee of: The Global Summit and Expo on Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering (GSEAME2021), Valencia, Spain, October 2021.
  12. Member of the Scientific Committee of: 4th International Conference on Uncertainty Quantification in Computational Sciences and Engineering (UNCECOMP 2021), Athens, Greece, June 2021.
  13. Member of the Scientific Committee of: 8th International Conference on Computational Methods in Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering (COMPDYN 2021), Athens, Greece, June 2021.
  14. Member of the Technical Panel: Vertical: V8 - Aerospace Technologies, Vaibhav Summit, India, October 2020.
  15. Member of the Scientific Committee of: The 8th International Conference on Uncertainty in Structural Dynamics (USD2020), Leuven, Belgium, September 2020.
  16. Member of the Scientific Committee of: XI International Conference on Structural Dynamics (EURODYN 2020), Athens, Greece, June 2020.
  17. Member of the International Scientific Committee of: The 9th International Workshop on Reliable Engineering Computing (REC2020), Taormina, Italy, May 2020.
  18. Member of the International Scientific Committee of: Probabilistic Mechanics & Reliability Conference 2020 (PMC 2020), New York , USA, May 2020.
  19. Member of the Selection Committee in Aeronautics Engineering: Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), Catalonia, Spain, January 2019.
  20. Member of the Scientific Committee of: 3rd International Conference on Uncertainty Quantification in Computational Sciences and Engineering (UNCECOMP 2019), Island of Crete, Greece, June 2019.
  21. Member of the Scientific Committee of: 7th International Conference on Computational Methods in Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering (COMPDYN 2019), Island of Crete, Greece, June 2019.
  22. Member of the Editorial Board of: The Thirteenth International Conference on Computational Structures Technology, Barcelona, Spain, September 2018.
  23. Member of the Organizing Committee of: 30th Nanotechnology & Nanomaterials Annual Congress, Stockholm, Sweden, September 2018.
  24. Member of the organising chairpersons of: Euromech colloquium 603: Dynamics of micro and nano electromechanical systems: multi-field modelling and analysis, Porto, Portugal, September 2018.
  25. Member of the Scientific Committee of: 20th International Conference on Emerging Materials and Nanotechnology, Vancouver, Canada, June 2018.
  26. Member of the Scientific Committee of: The 7th International Conference on Uncertainty in Structural Dynamics (USD2018), Leuven, Belgium, September 2018.
  27. Member of the International Scientific Committee of: 14th International Conference on Vibration Engineering and Technology of Machinery (VETOMAC XIV), Lisbon, Portugal, September 2018.
  28. Member of the Technical Advisory Panel of: The 1st International Conference on Advances in Aerospace Structures, Systems & Technology (AASST 2018), London, UK, May 2018.
  29. Member of the International Scientific Committee of: UNCERTAINTIES 2018, Florianopolis, SC, Brazil, April 2018.
  30. Member of the Scientific Committee of: 2nd International Conference on Uncertainty Quantification in Computational Sciences and Engineering (UNCECOMP 2017), Rhodes Island, Greece, June 2017.
  31. Member of the Scientific Committee of: 6th International Conference on Computational Methods in Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering (COMPDYN 2017), Rhodes Island, Greece, June 2017.
  32. Member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of: CCMS2016: Sixth International Congress on Computational Mechanics and Simulation, IIT Mumbai, India, June 2016.
  33. Member of the Advisory Committee of: 3rd International Conference on Innovations in Automation and Mechatronics Engineering - ICIAME2016, G H Patel College of Engineering & Technology, Gujarat, India, February 2016.
  34. Member of the International Scientific Committee of: Fifth Serbian Congress on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics and Engineering (SSM 2015), Belgrade, Serbia, June, 2015.
  35. British representative in the UK-USA Space and aviation workshop, Hampton, VA , USA, March 2015.
  36. Member of the Local Scientific Committee of: 23rd Conference on Computational Mechanics (ACME 2015), Swansea, UK, April 2015.
  37. Member of the Scientific Committee of: International Conference on Uncertainty Quantification in Computational Sciences and Engineering (UNCECOMP 2015), Island of Crete, Greece, June 2015.
  38. Member of the Scientific Committee of: 5th International Conference on Computational Methods in Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering (COMPDYN 2015), Island of Crete, Greece, June 2015.
  39. Member of the Editorial Board of: The Twelfth International Conference on Computational Structures Technology, Naples, Italy, September 2014.
  40. Member of the Scientific Committee of: First International Symposium on Energy Challenges and Mechanics, Aberdeen, UK, July 2014.
  41. Member of the Scientific Committee of: Tenth International Conference on Vibration Engineering & Technology of Machinery (VETOMAC X), Manchester, UK, September 2014.
  42. Member of the International Scientific Committee of: Sixth International Symposium on Uncertainty Modelling and Analysis, Liverpool, UK, June 2014.
  43. External expert committee, The University of Cyprus, Cyprus, 2012-13.
  44. Member of the editorial advisory board of the book on: Mathematics of Uncertainty Modelling in the Analysis of Engineering and Science Problems, IGI Global, USA, 2013.
  45. Member of the Scientific Committee of: 1st International Conference on Nonlocal Mechanics of Composites (NONMECH 2013), Istanbul, Turkey, October 2013.
  46. Member of the Scientific Committee of: 4th International Conference on Computational Methods in Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering (COMPDYN 2013), Kos Island, Greece, June 2013.
  47. Member of the Organising Committee of: International Conference and Exhibition on Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, San Antonio, Texas, USA, October 2013.
  48. Member of the Editorial Board of: The Eleventh International Conference on Computational Structures Technology, Dubrovnik, Croatia, September 2012.
  49. Member of the Scientific Committee of: USD2012 International Conference on Uncertainty in Structural Dynamics, Leuven, Belgium, September 2012.
  50. Member of the Organizing Committee of: 6th International ASRANet Conference, London, Croydon, UK, July 2012.
  51. Member of the Scientific Committee of: 2012 Stochastic Mechanics: An international conference, Ustica, Italy, June 2012.
  52. Member of the Scientific Committee of: Engineering under uncertainty: Safety assessment and Management, Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur, Howrah, India, January 2012.
  53. Member of the Scientific Committee of: USD2010 International Conference on Uncertainty in Structural Dynamics, Leuven, Belgium, September 2010.
  54. Member of the Editorial Board of: The Tenth International Conference on Computational Structures Technology, Valencia, Spain, September 2010.
  55. Member of the International Organizing Committee (IOC) of: ICNPAA 2010 world congress- 8th International Conference on "Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Aerospace and Sciences, INPE (National Institute for Space Research), Sao Jose dos Campos (SP), Brazil 2010.
  56. External expert committee, The University of Cyprus, Cyprus, 2008-09.
  57. Member of the Scientific Committee: Second International Conference on Uncertainty in Structural Dynamics, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK, 2006-2007.
  58. Member of the International Organizing Committee (IOC) of: Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Aerospace and Sciences, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy, August 2008.
  59. Member of the Editorial Board of: The Ninth International Conference on Computational Structures Technology, Athens, Greece, September 2008.
  60. Member of the Scientific Committee: 1st International Conference on Uncertainty in Structural Dynamics, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK, 2006-2007.
  61. Member of the Editorial Board of: The Eighth International Conference on Computational Structures Technology, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, 2005-2006.
  62. Member of the Program Committee of: International Conference on Nonlinear Problems in Aviation and Aerospace, Budapest, Hungary, 2005-2006.
  63. Member of the International Advisory Committee: Civil Engineering in the New Millennium: Opportunities and Challenges, Bengal Engineering and Science University, Howrah, India, 2005-2007.
  64. Member of the Scientific Committee: The Fifth Structural Engineering Convention, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India 2004-2005.

Industrial Activities

  1. 04/2021-Present:Advisory Board of Datum Advanced Composites, India
  2. 08/2012-Present: Technical consultant of Embraer Aircraft Corporation, Brazil
  3. 10/2005-09/2009: Technical consultant of Garrad Hassan and Partners (Now DNV GL), UK

Reviewing of Research Grants

  1. Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF).
  2. Slovenian Research Agency (ARRS).
  3. UK India Education & Research Initiative (UKIERI) Peer Review panel member, The British Council.
  4. The Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) International Collaboration Awards reviewer, The Royal Society, UK.
  5. Newton International Fellowship panel member, The Royal Society, UK.
  6. Scientific Research-FNRS (F.R.S.-FNRS), Belgium.
  7. Science Foundation Ireland, Ireland.
  8. Nuffield foundation, UK
  9. Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), UK.
  10. Research Foundation Flanders (FWO), Belgium.
  11. National Research foundation (NRF), South Africa.
  12. Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy, USA.
  13. The Leverhulme Trust, UK.
  14. Faculty Research Grant Competition, American University of Sharjah, UAE.
  15. Czech Science Foundation (GACR), Czech Republic.
  16. Romanian National Council for Research and Development, Romania.
  17. Estonian Research Council, Estonia.
  18. The Research Council of Norway, Norway.
  19. Superior Council of the National Fund for Scientific & Technological Development (FONDECYT) of Chile,, Chile.
  20. Defence Research and Development, Canada.
  21. The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), Netherlands.
  22. Flemish agency for Innovation by Science and Technology (IWT), Netherlands.
  23. The Royal Society, UK.

Reviewing of Books and Book Proposals

  1. Science and Technology book proposal reviewer for Elsevier/Butterworth-Heinemann Publishers
  2. Book reviewer for The Royal Aeronautical Society
  3. Book reviewer for Institution of Mechanical Engineers
  4. Book proposal reviewer for John Wiley & Sons

Reviewing of Articles in Academic Journals

  1. Nature Materials
  2. Nature Scientific Reports
  3. American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Journal
  4. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series A
  5. International Journal of Acoustics and Vibration
  6. ASME Journal of Applied Mechanics
  7. ASCE Journal of Engineering Mechanics
  8. Journal of Sound and Vibration
  9. Structural Engineering and Mechanics, An international Journal
  10. International Journal of Solids and Structures
  11. AIAA Journal of Aircraft
  12. ASME Journal of Vibration and Acoustics
  13. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part G: Journal of Aerospace Engineering
  14. IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics
  15. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering
  16. Shock and Vibration
  17. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part I: Journal of Systems and Control Engineering
  18. International Journal of Mechanical Sciences
  19. Experimental Mechanics
  20. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering
  21. Sadhana - Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Engineering Sciences
  22. Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering
  23. Plastics, Rubber and Composites: Macromolecular Engineering Journal
  24. ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering
  25. Proceedings of Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE), Structures and Buildings
  26. The Journal of Strain Analysis for Engineering Design
  27. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part K: Journal of Multi-body Dynamics
  28. Transactions on Internet Research
  29. International Journal of Computer Mathematics
  30. Scientific Journals International (SJI)
  31. Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing
  32. Water Resources Research
  33. ASCE Journal of Aerospace Engineering
  34. ASME Journal of Computational and Nonlinear Dynamics
  35. Applied Mathematical Modelling
  36. Engineering Computations
  37. Mechanics Research Communications
  38. Acoustics Australia
  39. International Journal of Systems Science
  40. Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization
  41. Journal of Design Engineering
  42. ISET Journal of Earthquake Technology
  43. Algorithms
  44. The Open Acoustics Journal
  45. Advances in Mechanical Engineering
  46. Structural Control and Health Monitoring
  47. Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures
  48. Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory
  49. Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering
  50. Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics
  51. Proceedings of ICE, Engineering and Computational Mechanics
  52. Probabilistic Engineering Mechanics
  53. Journal of Biological Physics
  54. South African Journal of Science
  55. Applied Mathematics and Computation
  56. Physica E: Low-dimensional Systems and Nanostructures
  57. Advances in Engineering Software
  58. International Journal of Reliability and Safety
  59. Computers & Mathematics with Applications
  60. Micromachines
  61. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
  62. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C, Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science
  63. International Journal of Smart and Nano Materials
  64. Journal of Vibration and Control
  65. European Journal of Mechanics - A/Solids
  66. Computational Materials Science
  67. Journal of Wind Engineering & Industrial Aerodynamics
  68. Journal of Zhejiang University
  69. Entropy
  70. International Journal for Computational Methods in Engineering Science and Mechanics
  71. Nanoscale
  72. International Journal for Multiscale Computational Engineering
  73. Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering
  74. Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures
  75. Engineering Structures
  76. Materials Chemistry and Physics
  77. Microscopy and Microanalysis
  78. Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids
  79. Journal of Computational Physics
  80. Nonlinear Dynamics
  81. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
  82. Composite Structures
  83. Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter
  84. Mechanics of Materials
  85. Advances in Acoustics and Vibration
  86. Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Advances
  87. Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation
  88. Journal of Nanomaterials & Molecular Nanotechnology (JNMN)
  89. Current Nanoscience
  90. International Journal of Nanomanufacturing
  91. ASCE Journal of Nanomechanics and Micromechanics
  92. Journal of Applied Physics
  93. European Physical Journal
  94. Journal of Fluids and Structures
  95. Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Letters
  96. IET Nanobiotechnology
  97. Mechatronics
  98. Journal of Computational Methods in Sciences and Engineering
  99. ASME Journal of Computational and Nonlinear Dynamics
  100. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part B: Journal of Engineering Manufacture
  101. Molecular Simulation
  102. Modern Physics Letters B
  103. Sensors & Actuators: A. Physical
  104. Smart Materials and Structures
  105. Meccanica
  106. International Journal of Mechanics and Materials in Design
  107. Annals of Solid and Structural Mechanics
  108. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer
  109. Small
  110. Polymer Composites
  111. Journal of Engineering Mathematics
  112. Wind Energy
  113. Scientia Iranica
  114. Journal of Materials Science
  115. Applied Physics Letters
  116. Mathematical Communications
  117. Ain Shams Engineering Journal
  118. Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids
  119. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences
  120. Journal of the Royal Society Interface
  121. Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering
  122. Microfluidics and Nanofluidics
  123. Applied Physics A
  124. Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids
  125. Microelectronic Engineering
  126. ChemPhysChem
  127. Brazilian Journal of Physics
  128. Plos One
  129. Numerical Linear Algebra with Applications
  130. Materials and Design

Reviewing of Articles for Conferences and Collected Volumes

  1. Tenth International Conference on Vibration Engineering & Technology of Machinery (VETOMAC X), Manchester, UK, September, 2014.
  2. AIAA SciTech 2014 Conference, January 2014, Maryland, USA.
  3. 54th AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics, and Materials Conference, April 2013, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
  4. The 2013 American Control Conference, June 2013, Washington DC, USA.
  5. 53rd AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics, and Materials Conference, April 2012, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.
  6. 52nd AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics, and Materials Conference, April 2011, Denver, Colorado, USA.
  7. ASME First Global Congress on NanoEngineering for Medicine and Biology (NEMB2010), February 2010, Houston, TX, USA.
  8. 51st AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics, and Materials Conference, April 2010, Orlando, Florida, USA.
  9. Second International Conference on Uncertainty in Structural Dynamics, June 2009, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.
  10. IISc Centenary International Conference on Aerospace Engineering and Exhibition (ICEAE 2009), May 2009, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India.
  11. 50th AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics, and Materials Conference, May 2009, Palm Springs, California, USA.
  12. IUTAM Symposium on Multi-Functional Material Structures and Systems, December 2008, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India.
  13. 9th International Conference on Vibrations in Rotating Machinery, September 2008, Exeter, UK.
  14. 12th AIAA/ISSMO Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization Conference, September 2008, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
  15. 49th AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics, and Materials Conference, April 2008, Schaumburg, IL, USA.
  16. 1st International Conference on Uncertainty in Structural Dynamics, June 2007, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.
  17. 48th AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics, and Materials Conference, April 2007, Waikiki, Hawaii, USA.
  18. 47th AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics, and Materials Conference, May 2006, Newport, Rhode Island, USA.
  19. ASME Conference on Engineering Systems Design and Analysis (ESDA), July 2004, Manchester, UK.
  20. The Eighth International Conference on Vibrations in Rotating Machinery, September 2004, Swansea, UK.

PhD and other Examination/Review Duties

  1. 08/2021: External examiner (PhD), IIT Kharagpur, India.
  2. 08/2021: External examiner (MSc), Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Chile.
  3. 05/2021: External examiner (PhD), NIT Silchar, India.
  4. 02/2021: External examiner (PhD), IIT Kanpur, India.
  5. 06/2020: External examiner (PhD), l'Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France.
  6. 04/2020: External examiner (PhD), IIT Guwahati, India.
  7. 03/2020: External examiner (PhD), Monash University, Australia.
  8. 10/2019: External examiner (PhD), IIT Kanpur, India.
  9. 08/2019: External examiner (PhD), Loughborough University, UK.
  10. 06/2019: External examiner (PhD), IIT Delhi, India.
  11. 02/2019: External examiner (PhD), NIT Silchar, Assam, India.
  12. 01/2019: External examiner (PhD), Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India.
  13. 12/2018: External examiner (MSc), University of Bristol, Bristol.
  14. 11/2018: External examiner (PhD), Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK.
  15. 09/2018: External examiner (PhD), Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
  16. 09/2017: External examiner (PhD), University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.
  17. 06/2017: External examiner (PhD), University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
  18. 02/2017: External examiner (PhD), Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India.
  19. 01/2017: External examiner (PhD), Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India.
  20. 11/2016: External examiner (PhD), Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.
  21. 10/2016: External examiner (PhD), Indian Institute of Information Technology Design and Manufacturing Jabalpur, India.
  22. 09/2015: External examiner (PhD), Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India.
  23. 04/2015: External examiner (PhD), Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.
  24. 05/2014: External examiner (PhD), Loughborough University, Loughborough.
  25. 03/2014: External examiner (PhD), University of Bristol, Bristol.
  26. 11/2013: External examiner (PhD), University of Manchester, Manchester.
  27. 9/2013: External examiner (PhD), University of Cambridge, Cambridge.
  28. 3/2013: External examiner (PhD), Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India.
  29. 10/2012: External examiner (PhD), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
  30. 09/2012: External examiner (PhD), University of Pretoria, South Africa.
  31. 10/2011: External examiner (MSc in Safety & Reliability Engineering), University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen.
  32. 06/2011: External examiner (PhD), University of Cambridge, Cambridge.
  33. 03/2011: External examiner (PhD), Nottingham University, Nottingham.
  34. 03/2011: External examiner (MSc), University of Bristol, Bristol.
  35. 04/2007-present: Internal examiner (PhD), University of Wales, Swansea.
  36. 11/2006: External examiner (PhD), City University, London.
  37. 07/2006: External examiner (PhD), Southampton University.
  38. 03/2006: Student paper competition reviewer, AIAA SDM conference.
  39. 07/2004: External examiner (MSc), University of Pretoria, South Africa.
  40. 10/2003-03/2007: Internal examiner (PhD), University of Bristol.


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