Dr.Shanmugasundaram Thangaraju joined DIAT (DU) Pune as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering in 2016. He has spent several years in Germany and France as a post-doctoral researcher. He holds a Ph.D. in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras and B.Tech & M.Tech in Metallurgical Engineering from NIT Jamshedpur and Anna University. His research areas include deformation behavior of Materials, Metal-Matrix composite, high entropy alloys, and wear in room and high temperature.