Educational Qualifications

• PhD, 2001, University of Cambridge (Trinity College), Cambridge, UK.
• Read the thesis.
• MSc, 1997, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.
• Bachelor of Engineering, 1995, University of Calcutta (now Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology (IIEST), Shibpur),

Major Awards and Honours

2023

1. 04/2023: Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in United Kingdom Leader Award 2023. Ranked 7th in the UK and 1st in Scotland (World ranking 145: http://research.com/u/sondipon-adhikari
2. 01/2023: Ranked 2nd in Europe and 22nd in the World in Aerospace Engineering by AD Scientific Index: http://www.adscientificindex.com/scientist/sondipon-adhikari/917371

2022

3. 05/2022: Professor Adhikari has been elected as a fellow of the Learned Society of Wales (FLSW).
   • Press release.
   • Public news.

2020

4. 11/2020: Included in the in the list of "Top 2% Scientists in the world" published by a famous journal paper from Stanford University https://buff.ly/2ZjxPPr. Ranked 10 among 27,952 researchers in the field of Acoustics. The ranking file can be downloaded from here.
5. 09/2020: Awarded the Marie Skodowska-Curie Fellowship (award value £196,00) from the European Commission for the postdoctoral supervision of Dr. M Kajic.
6. 02/2020: Awarded the Marie Skodowska-Curie Fellowship (award value £196,00) from the European Commission for the postdoctoral supervision of Dr. F Pertini.

2019

7. 08/2019: Recognised as High-Level Foreign Talent (Category A) by the Government of China (Issue No: 558430119730420019).
8. 02/2019: Awarded the Newton International Fellowship (award value £100,500) from the Royal Society for the postdoctoral supervision of Dr A Banerjee.

2018

9. 10/2018: Awarded the Royal Academy of Engineering Distinguished Visiting Fellowship to host Prof R Ganguli.
   • Swansea University press release.
10. 07/2018: Awarded the Marie Skodowska-Curie Fellowship (award value £170,00) from the European Commission for the postdoctoral supervision of Dr. D Karlicic.
• Swansea University press release.
11. 06/2018: Research paper published in Nature Scientific Reports is selected in the "Top 100 in Materials Science" (ranked in the 26-50 band).
    • Nature journal link.
12. 04/2018: Research paper published in Computers and Geotechnics is the Winner of the IGS-YGE Best Paper Biennial Award.

2017

13. 04/2017: Professor Adhikari has been elected as a fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society (FRAeS).
    • Swansea University press release.
    • Public news.

2016

14. 01/2016: Recipient of the first Newton-Bhabha PhD placement award from the British Council.

2015

15. 06/2015: Elected as a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Johannesburg.

2012

16. 11/2012: Professor Adhikari has been elected as an associate fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA).
    • AIAA press release.
    • Swansea University press release.
    • This is south Wales news.

2011

17. 06/2011: Our paper on stochastic methods won the 2011 Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence: Engineering Computations Journal.

2010

18. 05/2010: Received the Wolfson Research Merit Award from the Royal Society. See the media coverage:
    • Royal Society press release.
    • Swansea University press release.
    • Welsh Icons.
    • Walesonline.co.uk education news.
    • This is south Wales news.
19. 03/2009: Our paper on Energy Harvesting is included in the Smart Materials and Structures Highlights 2009.
See the media coverage:
• Journal press release >
20. 03/2009: Our paper on Graphene is included in the Nanotechnology Highlights 2009.
See the media coverage:
• Swansea University press release.
• A to Z Nanotechnology.
• Nanotechnology Now.
• Bristol University press release.

2009

21. 01/2009: Research paper on energy harvesting selected as 'favourite' by the Smart Materials & Structures journal
    • Read the details.
22. 07/2009: Awarded the Newton International Fellowship (award value £159,000) for Dr. Sk. Faruque Ali.
See the media coverage:
• Wales Higher Education News.
• The Indian High Commission, London.
• Wales International Consortium.
• Swansea University press.
• Welsh Assembly Government's international website.
23. 01/2009: Research paper on Graphene highlighted by the leading Institute of Physics (IoP) nanotechnology website nanotechweb.org in their technology update section:
    • Read the article in http://nanotechweb.org/cws/article/tech/37389.

    2008

24. 10/2008: Awarded the Newton International Fellowship (award value £159,000) for Dr. Rajib Chowdhury.
    • See the media coverage: Swansea University press.
25. 05/2008: Elected into a Visiting Fellowship from Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge.
• See it in the Cambridge University Reporter.

2007

26. 10/2007: Winner of the Philip Leverhulme Prize. (prize value £70,000).
See the media coverage:
• Swansea University press.
• Leverhulme Trust press release.
• Times Higher Education.

2006

27. 09/2006: Invited to contribute to the Wiley Encyclopedia of Statistics in Quality and Reliability.
28. 01/2006: Member of the Winning project team in the EPSRC Ideas factory Workshop on Scientific Uncertainty and Decision Making (awarded £338,591).

2005

29. 06/2005: Invited to give a short course on probabilistic structural dynamics at the CISM International Center for Mechanical Sciences, Udine, Italy.

2004

30. 06/2004: Included in Who's Who in Computational Science and Engineering (WWCSE) published by Saxe-Coburg Publications, UK.
31. 05/2004: EPSRC Advanced Research Fellowship.

2001

32. 08/2001: Junior Research Fellowship (in science and engineering) from Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge.
• See it in the Cambridge University Reporter.
33. 06/2001: Second prize from the Acoustical Society of America for the best student paper/presentation in the 141st Meeting at Chicago, USA. ($150 and a certificate).
• See it in the newsletter of The Acoustical Society of America.

2000

34. 02/2000: Rouse-Ball Traveling Scholarship from Trinity College, Cambridge. (£750).

1999

35. 04/1999: John Winbolt Prize (best student paper prize) from the Cambridge University for the single-authored paper entitled "Rates of change of eigenvalues and eigenvectors in damped dynamic system" appeared in the AIAA Journal, 37[11] (1999), pp. 1452-1458. (£1200 and a certificate).
• See it in the Cambridge University Reporter.

1998

36. 09/1998: Overseas Research Student Award.

1997

37. 10/1997: Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Trust Scholarship at the Trinity College, Cambridge.
38. 10/1997: Honorary Nehru Cambridge Scholarship from New Delhi.