Professor Raj Das

Professor Raj Das is the Full Professor of 'Structures and Materials' and leads the ‘Simulation of Advanced Materials and Structures (SAMS)’ research group in the ‘Sir Lawrence Wackett Research Centre’ of RMIT University (Australia). He is the ‘Program Director’ in the Aerospace Engineering and Aviation discipline of the School of Engineering. He is also an honorary academic in the University of Auckland, New Zealand and the University of Quebec, Canada. 

Professor Das has nearly 20 years of experience in the design, analysis and optimisation of engineering materials and structures with a focus on computational mechanics, structural optimisation, composite structures, failure analysis, and damage tolerance design. Prof Das has published more than 250 papers in international journals and conferences in collaboration with several universities, institutes and industries. Prof Das has a PhD from Monash University, Australia in Applied Mechanics, and has previously worked in the University of Auckland (New Zealand), the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (Australia), and the University of Manchester (UK).

Professor Das is associated with various scientific and technical societies broadly related to Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. He is currently the President of the 'International Congress on Mechanical Behaviour of Materials (ICM)' and represents Australia as a ‘Director’ in the Executive Committee of the 'International Congress on Fracture (ICF)'. Within Australia, Prof Das serves as the Chair of the ‘National Committee on Applied Mechanics’ of Engineers Australia. He has chaired/co-chaired several well-known conferences (ICM-13, ACAM-8, ACCM-3, ICCM-6, etc). 

Professor Das has been granted several national and international awards and fellowships, including the ‘Computational Methods Award’ by ICCM, ‘Jim & Hazel D. Lord Emerging Faculty Fellowship’, ‘Research Excellence Award’, and ‘AUEA Emerging Researcher Award’ by the University of Auckland. He has received the ‘CONICYT award’ from the Government of Chile, ‘Certificate of Merit Award’ from the International Association of Engineers, Hong Kong, ‘UQAC Visiting Fellowship’ from the University of Quebec, Canada, and ‘Visiting Researcher Fellowship’ from the University of Cape Town, South Africa.

Awards/Distinctions

• RMIT Award for Impact and Collaboration, Multifunctional Materials and Composites Group, 2020 
• Visiting Professor Fellowship, King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi, Bangkok, Thailand 2019-.
• Visiting Professor Fellowship, University of Sapienza, Rome, Italy, 2019.
• International Computational Method Award, 9th International Conference on Computational Methods, Rome, Italy, 2018.
• Adjunct Faculty, Auckland Bioengineering Institute, University of Auckland, New Zealand, January, 2017.
• Invited Foreign Faculty in the GIAN program, Ministry of Education, India, 2017.  
• Visiting Scholars Fellowship (VSF), 2014, University of Cape Town, South Africa
• Early Career Research Excellence Award, University of Auckland, New Zealand, 2013.
• AUEA Emerging Researcher Award, Auckland University Engineers Association (AUEA), 2013.
• Visiting Fellowship (Professeur Associé), Department of Applied Sciences, University of Quebec, Canada, 2012
• CONICYT Award, Ministry of Education, Government of Chile, 2011-2012 (out of 28 worldwide awardees).
• Jim & Hazel D. Lord Emerging Faculty Fellowship, University of Auckland, New Zealand, 2011
• Faculty Top Teachers Award, University of Auckland, New Zealand, 2010
• Adjunct Faculty (Professeur Associé), Department of Applied Sciences, University of Quebec (Université du Québec) at Chicoutimi, Canada, September, 2010- September, 2013.
• Certificate of Merit Award (Five Best Papers Award) in World Congress in Engineering, International Association of Engineers, Hong Kong, 2008
• S.K. Basu Memorial Award for Academic Excellence, Jadavpur University Alumni Association, 1999: Awarded in recognition for academic accomplishments in Bachelor of Engineering.

Research Overview

• Novel multifunctional and new hybrid materials and structures for lightweight engineering structures for aerospace, automotive and marine applications
• Finite element and mesh-free SPH modelling for a range of engineering applications involving extreme deformation and discontinuous processes, including dynamic fracture, fragmentation, impact, biomechanics, bioforensics, material forming, welding, and geomechanics
• Fracture and fatigue analysis, including multi-scale modelling of nano-, micro-, and macro- fracture processes.
• Multiscale and multifunctional materials design, including architected materials, meta- materials, auxetic materials, functionally graded materials for lightweight aerospace structures
• Structural integrity, damage tolerance, and durability analysis, i.e. fracture strength and fatigue life assessments, of engineering structures for aerospace, transport and marine applications
• Design and optimisation of biomechanical systems and medical implants
• Simulation and modelling of metal additive manufacturing processes, including multi-scale and multi-physics modelling of AM thermo-mechanical processes
• Damage tolerance, fracture and fatigue assessment of additive manufactured metal alloys and components
• Structural optimisation of additive manufactured components, based on manufacturing and property constraints

Availability of PhD projects

The following PhD projects are available for both domestic and international applicants. Further details are outlined here. You are welcome to contact me for more information.

• Project - 1: Damage Tolerant Hybrid Composite Materials for Applications in Critical Aerospace Structures
• Project - 2: Damage Tolerant 3D Printed Composite Materials for Engineering Applications
• Project - 3: Multifunctional Auxetic Materials for Critical Engineering Structures
• Project - 4: Development of Fire-resistant and Lightweight Composite Structures for Fire-safe Structural Applications
• Project - 5: Integrated Topology Optimisation Tool for Additive Manufacturing
• Project - 6: Structural Shape and Topology Optimisation for Fracture Strength and Fatigue Life Improvement
• Project - 7: Novel Energy Storage Technology using Multifunctional Textiles
• Project - 8: Understanding Cranial Injury: Virtual Forensic Laboratory

Teaching 

• Member of the 'Solid Mechanics and Structures' teaching group
• ‘Teaching Group Convener’, Mechanics of Materials teaching group, 2014-2015
• ‘Course director’ of Dynamics (MECHENG 222, 2012), Design-3M (MECHENG 334, 2014-2015) and Composite Materials (MECHENG 743, 2012-)
• ‘Undergraduate Course Advisor (Part II/III)’, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Auckland, New Zealand, 2013-2014.
• ‘Postgraduate Course (Taught Masters) Advisor’, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Auckland, New Zealand, 2015-.

Course Delivery

RMIT University

• Aerospace Finite Element Methods (AERO 2357): Year III, Course coordinator (100%), Class size ~120 students. 
• Computational Engineering Analysis (AERO 2463): Year III, Course coordinator (100%),  Class size ~250 students. 
• Design for Manufacture and Assembly (AERO 2252): Year II, Course coordinator (100%),  Class size ~70 students. 
• Composite Materials and Structures (AERO 2289): Year IV, Course lecturer (50%),  Class size ~20-25 students. 

University of Auckland 

• Mechanics of Materials 1 (MECHENG 242): Year II.
• Dynamics (MECHENG 222): Year II, (Course coordinator), 2012, 
• System Dynamics Modelling (MECHENG 224): Year II.
• Engineering Design 3M (MECHENG 334): Year III.
• Composite Materials (MECHENG 743): Year IV (Course coordinator).
• Manufacturing and Industrial Processes (MECHENG 747): Year IV.
• Materials and Yacht Structures (MECHENG 772): Postgraduate

Plenary/Keynote/Invited Speakers 

• Keynote Speaker, International Symposium on Sustainable Aviation (ISSA), 25-27 November , 2021, Bangkok, Thailand.
• Keynote Speaker, Global Summit on Metamaterials, Nanophotonics and Plasmonics (METAMAT2021), 7-9 December, 2021, London, UK.
• Keynote Speaker, 5th International Conference on Applications of Fluid Dynamics (ICAFD-2020), 13-15 December, 2020, VIT-AP University, Vijayawada, India, December.
• Plenary Speaker, 19th International Conference of Experimental Mechanics (ICEM2020), 5-9 July, 2020, Krakow, Poland.
• Plenary Speaker, 6th Asia-Pacific International Conference on Computational Methods in Engineering (ICOE2019), 27-30 September, 2019, Dalian, China
• Plenary Speaker, 4th International Conference on Design, Mechanical and Material Engineering (D2ME), Hong Kong Society of Mechanical Engineers, 26-28 September, 2019, Busan, Korea
• Plenary Speaker, 3rd International Conference on Design, Mechanical and Material Engineering (D2ME), Hong Kong Society of Mechanical Engineers, 27-29 September, 2018, Phuket, Thailand
• Plenary Speaker, 3rd International Conference on Design, Mechanical and Material Engineering (D2ME), Hong Kong Society of Mechanical Engineers, 27-29 September, 2018, Phuket, Thailand
• Semi-Plenary Speaker, 9th International Conference on Computational Methods (ICCM2018), 6-10 August, 2016, Rome, Italy
• Plenary Speaker, 7th International Conference on Structural Analysis of Advanced Materials (ICSAAM 2017), September 19-22, 2017, Bucharest, Romania 
• Invited Speaker, 11th International Symposium on Plasticity and Impact Mechanics (IMPLAST 2016), 11-14 December, 2016, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India
• Keynote Speaker, 3rd International Conference on Applications of Fluid Dynamics (ICAFD-2016), 19-21 December, 2016, IIT Dhanbad, India
• Semi-Plenary Speaker, 7th International Conference on Computational Methods (ICCM2016), 1-4 August, 2016, Berkley, USA
• Plenary Speaker, International Conference on Design, Mechanical and Material Engineering (D2ME), Hong Kong Society of Mechanical Engineers, 8-10 September, 2016, Auckland, New Zealand
• Plenary Speaker, 6th International Conference on Structural Analysis of Advanced Materials (ICSAAM 2015), September 8-11, 2015, Porto, Portugal 
• Plenary Speaker, International Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Engineering (ICAIE 2015), 25-26 May, 2015, Kenting, Taiwan 
• Plenary Speaker, XIII Conference on Computational Mechanics (JMC), 2-3 October, 2014, Chilean Society of Computational Mechanics, University of Talca, Curico, Chile
• Plenary Speaker, 3rd International Conference on Nanomaterials and Electronics Engineering (ICNEE), 5-6 October, 2013, Melaka, Malaysia.
• Keynote Speaker, 8th International Conference on Structural Integrity and Fracture (SIF2013), 11 - 12 July, 2013, Melbourne, Australia (organised by Australian Fracture Society).
• Keynote Speaker, 5th International Conference on Structural Analysis of Advanced Materials (ICSAAM-2013), 23 – 26 September, 2013, Island of Kos, Greece.
• Invited Speaker, International Conference on Global Challenges and Prospects of Jute and Allied Fibres, Kolkata, India, 4-6 December, 2013.
• Invited Speaker, 6th International Conference on CFD in Oil & Gas, Metallurgical and Process Industries, Trondheim, Norway, 10-12 June, 2008.

Media Statements / Interviews

• Au-Manufacturing (Australian Manufacturing Forum), 2021, “Fibres and composites transforming industry: Supporting research and development for composite advancement”, https://www.aumanufacturing.com.au/fibres-and-composites-transforming-industry-supporting-research-and-development-for-composite-advancement
• DSI News and Initiatives, 2021, “Supporting Research and Development for Composite Advancement”, https://www.defencescienceinstitute.com/news/case-studies/supporting-research-and-development-for-composite-advancement
• Joyce Foam Limited, 2019, “RMIT research proves Hygroflex provides more comfort and is more effective in reducing pressure sores than traditional memory foams”, https://www.joyce.com.au/news/hygroflex
• Advances in Engineering, 2019, “Inspiration from nature: Functionally Graded Structure; from design to manufacture Numerical and experimental study on deformation of 3D-printed polymeric functionally graded plates” by Madeh Amirpour, 27 July, 2019 
  https://advanceseng.com/functionally-graded-structure-deformation-3d-printed-polymeric-functionally-graded-plates/
• Advanced Science News, 2016, “Three Decades of Auxetics Research – Materials with Negative Poisson’s ratio: A Review”, by Sandra Kalveram, 30 June, 2016
  https://www.advancedsciencenews.com/three-decades-auxetics-research-materials-negative-poissons-ratio-review/

Professional Contributions/Service

International Committees and Organisations

• Vice-Chair (Elected), American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Australian Section, July, 2021 -. https://community.asme.org/australia_section/groupleadership.aspx
• President (Elected), International Congress on Mechanical Behaviour of Materials (ICM), June, 2019 – (Affiliated Organisation of IUTAM).
• Treasure (Elected), American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Australian section, July, 2020 - June, 2021
• Chair (Elected), National Committee on Applied Mechanics Mechanical College of the Institution of Engineers Australia (IEAust), June, 2018 -.
• Executive Committee Member (Elected) and Council Member, International Congress (Committee) on Fracture (one of the Directors in the 15 member ExCo), June, 2017 -.
• Deputy Chair, National Committee on Applied Mechanics, Mechanical College of the Institution of Engineers Australia (IEAust), November, 2014 -2018.
• Adjunct Faculty, Auckland Bioengineering Institute, University of Auckland, New Zealand, 2017-.
• Adjunct Faculty (Professeur Associé), Department of Applied Sciences, University of Quebec, Canada, September, 2010- September, 2013
• National Panel Member, ‘Theo Murphy High Flyers Think Tank Program’, Shine Dome, Canberra, Australian Academy of Science, 2010 (14 researchers from across Australia were selected for the “Innovation and New Technology” theme)
• Elected Committee Member, National Committee on Applied Mechanics (One of total 11 members in Australasia) under the Mechanical College of Institution of Engineers Australia (IEAust), November, 2009-.
• Curriculum Review Committee, Faculty of Engineering, University of Pretoria, South Africa, 2015-.

University Committees/Service

• Representative-Level E (Professor), Academic Workload Model (AWM) Committee, RMIT University, Australia, 2022-2024.
• Program and Curriculum Design Committee, Bachelor of Engineering Programs, School of Engineering, RMIT University, Australia, 2021-.
• Program Director, Bachelor of Engineering (Aerospace), School of Engineering, RMIT University, Australia, 2018-.
• Theme Leader, Simulation and Modelling, Centre for Additive Manufacturing (CAM), RMIT University, Australia, 2017-2018.
• Representative-Level D (Associate Professor), Academic Workload Model (AWM) Committee, RMIT University, Australia, 2017-2018.
• Chair, Information Technology Faculties' Forum, University of Auckland, New Zealand, 2015-.
• Faculty Representative, Information Technology Faculties' Forum, University of Auckland, New Zealand, 2014-.
• Sub-Professorial Member, Vice-Chancellor’s Advisory Committee – Student Affairs Committee, University of Auckland, New Zealand, 2012-2014.
• Committee Chair, IT Strategy and Policy Committee, Faculty of Engineering, University of Auckland, New Zealand, 2012-2014.
• Faculty Representative, IT Strategy and Policy VVC Advisory Committee, University of Auckland, New Zealand, 2012-2014.
• Undergraduate Course Advisor (Part II/III), Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Auckland, New Zealand, 2013-2014.
• Postgraduate Course Advisor (Taught Masters), Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Auckland, New Zealand, 2015-.
• Departmental Software Co-ordinator, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Auckland, New Zealand, 2013-.
• Departmental Seminar Co-ordinator, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Auckland, New Zealand, 2011-2014.
• Recruitment and Selection Committee, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Auckland, New Zealand, 2014.

Editorial Board Members 

• Associate Editor (Structures), Journal of Aerospace Technology and Management, Publisher – Aeronautics and Space Institute (Instituto de Aeronaútica e Espaço-IAE), Sap Paulo Brazil, 2021-.
• Associate Editor, Hybrid Materials, ISSN 2299-3940 (Online), Publisher – De Gruyter Open, Berlin, Germany, 2014-2016.
• Editorial board member, Heliyon, Publisher – Elsevier Group, ISSN 2405-8440, UK, 2016-.
• Editorial board member, Scientific Bulletin of University Politehnica of Bucharest, Series D – Mechanical Engineering, 2015-2018.
• Editorial board member, Defence Science Journal, ISSN: 0976-464X (Online), ISSN: 0011-748X (Print), Publisher – Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO), Ministry of Defence, New Delhi, India, 2015-2019.
• Editorial board member, Modeling and Numerical Simulation of Material Science, ISSN 2164-5353 (Online) - ISSN 2164-5345 (Print), Publisher – Scientific Research Publishing (SCIRP: http://www.scirp.org), 2014-.
• Editorial board member, Engineering Solid Mechanics (ESM), ISSN 2291-8752 (Online) - ISSN 2291-8744 (Print), Publisher – Growing Science Publisher, Vancouver, Canada, 2013-.
• Editorial board member, International Journal of Mechanical Systems (IJMS), Publisher - The Scien Tech Publisher, China, 2014-.
• Editorial board member, Progresses in Nanotechnology and Nanomaterials (PNN), Publisher - The World Academic Publishing Co., Ltd, Hong Kong, 2013-.
• Editorial board member, European International Journal of Science and Technology (EIJST), Publisher - Center for Enhancing Knowledge (CEK), UK, Editor-in-Chief - Professor Laurent Mathy, Queen's University Belfast, UK, 2012-.
• Editorial board member, Advances in Materials, Publisher - Science Publishing Group, USA, 2012-.
• Editorial board member, Microscopy Research, Publisher - Scientific Research Publishing, Irvine CA 92619-4821, USA, 2012-.
• Editorial board member, International Journal of Research and Reviews in Applied Sciences, ISSN: 2076-734X, 2010-.

Conference Organisation

• Chair, 13th International Conference on Mechanical Behaviour of Materials (ICM-13), 11-14 June, 2019, Melbourne, Australia (Top ranked international conference in Mechanics of Materials)
• Co-Chair, 3rd Australasian Conference on Computational Mechanics (ACCM-3), 12-14 February, 2018, Melbourne, Australia (Top ranked conference in Computational Mechanics in Australasian region).
• Co-Chair, 7th International Conference on Computational Methods (ICCM2015), 1-4 August, 2015, Berkley, USA (Top ranked international conference in Computational Modelling).
• Chair, International Conference on Design, Mechanical and Material Engineering (D2ME), Hong Kong Society of Mechanical Engineers, 8-10 September, 2016, Auckland, New Zealand
• Chair, 6th International Conference on Computational Methods (ICCM2015), 15-17 July, 2015, Auckland, New Zealand (Top ranked international conference in Computational Modelling).
• Co-chair, 8th Australasian Congress on Applied Mechanics (ACAM8), 24-26 November, 2014, Melbourne, Australia (Top ranked conference in Applied Mechanics in Australasian region).

Conference Organising Committees

Served as a committee member of over 100 national and international conferences, including several reputed ones (selected list below).

• Member of the International Scientific Committee and Session/Mini-Symposium Chair, 15th International Conference on Fracture (ICF16), 13-18 June, 2021, Atlanta, USA.
• International Scientific Advisory Committee, 19th International Conference of Experimental Mechanics (ICEM2020), 5-9 July, 2020, Krakow, Poland.
• International Advisory Board, 23nd European Conference on Fracture (ECF23), 27 June – 3 July, 2020, Madeira, Portugal.
• International Advisory Board, 22nd European Conference on Fracture (ECF22), 25-31 August, 2018, Belgrade, Serbia
• International Scientific Advisory Committee, 18th International Conference of Experimental Mechanics (ICEM2018), 1-5 July, 2018, Brussels, Belgium.
• Member of International Organising Committee, 25th International Conference on Processing and Fabrication of Advanced Materials (PFAM-XXV), 22-25 January, 2017, Auckland, New Zealand.
• Member of the International Scientific Committee, 14th International Conference on Fracture, 18-23 June, 2017, Rhodes, Greece.
• Member of the International Scientific Committee, 2nd Australasian Conference on Computational Mechanics (ACCM2015), 30 November – 1 December, 2015, Brisbane, Australia.
• Member of the International Scientific Committee, 7th European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering (ECCOMAS-2016), 5 - 10 June 2016, Crete, Greece.
• Member of the Local Organizing Committee, 11th World Congress on Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization (WCSMO-11), 7-12 June, 2015, Sydney, Australia.
• Member of the International Scientific Committee, 13th International Symposium on Multiscale, Multifunctional and Functionally Graded Materials (MM&FGM 2014), 19-22 October, 2014, Sao Paolo, Brazil.
• Member of International Scientific Committee, 11th World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM 11), 20 -25 July 2014, Barcelona, Spain.
• Member of the Local Organising Committee, 11th International Fatigue Congress (FATIGUE 2014), 2-7 March, 2014, Melbourne, Australia.
• Technical Program Committee, International Conference on Electrical, Communication, Computer, Power, and Control Engineering (ICECCPCE 13), 18-19 December, 2013, Mosul, Iraq.
• Member of the International Advisory Committee and Session Organiser, 19th International Conference on Composite Materials (ICCM19), 28 July - 2 August, 2013, Montreal, Canada.
• Member of the International Scientific Committee, 17th International Conference on Composite Structures (ICCS/17), 17-21 June, 2013, Porto, Portugal.
• Member of the International Scientific Committee and Session/Mini-Symposium Chair, 13th International Conference on Fracture (ICF13), 16-21 June, 2013, Beijing, China.
• Member of the International Advisory Committee, 9th International Conference on Fracture and Strength of Solids (FEOFS), 9-13 June, 2013, Jeju, South Korea.
• Chairman of the International Organizing Committee from New Zealand, 10th World Congress on Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization (WCSMO-10), 19-24 May, 2013, Orlando, USA.
• Member of the International Advisory Committee, 7th Australasian Congress on Applied Mechanics (ACAM7), 9-12 December, 2012, Adelaide, Australia.
• Member of International Scientific Committee, 10th World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM 10), 8 -13 July 2012, São Paulo, Brazil.
• Member of Local organising Committee, 11th International Conference on Flow Processing in Composite Materials (FPCM-11), 9 -12 July 2012, Auckland, New Zealand.
• Member of International Organising Committee, 19th International Conference on Processing and Fabrication of Advanced Materials (PFAM-19), 14-17 January, 2011, Auckland, New Zealand.

Education

• 2006:  PhD, Mechanical Engineering (Applied Mechanics), Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
• 1999: Bachelor of Engineering (First class Honours with University Third rank), Mechanical Engineering, Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India

Employment History 

• 2021 – Present: Full Professor, School of Engineering, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia.
• 2016 – 2020: Associate Professor, School of Engineering, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia.
• 2010 – 2016: Senior Lecturer, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
• 2009 – 2010: Senior Research Scientist, Division of Mathematical and Information Sciences, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Melbourne, Australia.
• 2006 – 2009: Research Scientist, Division of Mathematical and Information Sciences, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Melbourne, Australia.
• 2005 – 2006: Research Fellow, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
• 2000 – 2002: Research Engineer, Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO), Ministry of Defence, Bangalore, India.

Professional Appointments

• Vice-Chair (Elected), American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Australian section, July, 2021 -. https://community.asme.org/australia_section/groupleadership.aspx
• Treasurer (Elected), American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Australian section, July, 2020 - June, 2021
• Visiting Professor Fellowship, University of Sapienza, Rome, Italy, 2019.
• Theme Leader, Simulation and Modelling, Centre for Additive Manufacturing (CAM), RMIT University, Australia, 2017-2018.
• President (Elected), International Congress on Mechanical Behaviour of Materials (ICM), June, 2019 – (Affiliated Organisation of IUTAM).
• Chair (Elected), National Committee on Applied Mechanics Mechanical College of the Institution of Engineers Australia (IEAust), June, 2018 -.
• Executive Committee Member (Elected) and Council Member, International Congress (Committee) on Fracture (one of the Directors in the 15 member ExCo), June, 2017 -.
• Invited Foreign Faculty in the GIAN program, Ministry of Education, India.  
• Adjunct Faculty, Auckland Bioengineering Institute, University of Auckland, New Zealand, January, 2017-
• Visiting Scholars Fellowship (VSF), 2014, University of Cape Town, South Africa
• Adjunct Faculty (Professeur Associé), Department of Applied Sciences, University of Quebec (Université du Québec) at Chicoutimi, Canada, September, 2010- September, 2013.
• Visiting Fellowship (Professeur Associé), Department of Applied Sciences, University of Quebec, Canada, 2012

Research/Academic Collaborations

National

• Defence Science and Technology Group (DSTG), Melbourne, Australia, Aerospace, Land, and Maritime Divisions (2013-)
• Defence Science Institute (DSI), Melbourne, Australia, Dr Craig Butler (2013-)
• University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Sydney, Australia, Professor Suvash Saha, (2018-).
• Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia, Professor Dong Ruan (2017-).
• Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, Assoc. Professor Shankar Kalyanasundaram, (2012-).
• CSIRO Mathematics, Informatics and Statistics (Data61), Melbourne, Australia, Dr Paul Cleary (2010-) and Dr David Howard (2020-).
• CSIRO Earth Science and Resource Engineering, Perth, Australia, Dr Yanhua Zhang (2009-) and Dr Shivakumar Karekal (2009-).
• Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, Professor Rhys Jones (2006-).

International

• University of Sapienza, Rome, Professor Patrizia Trovalusci (2019-).
• King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT), Bangkok, Thailand, Professor Sontipee Aimmanee (2019-). 
• Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA), Nanjing, China, Zhenghua Qian (2018-).
• Guru Gobind Singh (GGS) Indraprastha University, Delhi, India, Dr Gulshan K. Dhamija  (2019-)
• Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD), Delhi, India, Dr Arnab Chanda (2019-).
• Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB), Mumbai, India, Professor Ramesh Singh (2019-).
• Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM), Chennai, India, Professor Raghu Prakash (2019-).
• Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology (VNIT), Nagpur, India, Professor Abaykumar Kuthe (2018-).
• University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, Centre for Advanced Composite Materials (2017-).
• University of Santiago, Santiago, Chile, Professor Erick Saavedra Flores (2014-).
• University of Zanjan, Zanjan, Iran, Professor Reza T. Faal (2015-).
• Defence Technology Agency (DTA), Auckland, New Zealand, Dr Stephen Campbell (2013-)
• University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), USA, Professor Nasr Ghoniem (2013-). 
• University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, Professor Jules Kieser (2012-).
• Institute of Environmental Science and Research (ESR), Christchurch, New Zealand, Dr Michael Taylor (2012-).
• Scion, Rotorua, New Zealand, Dr Namasivayam Navaranjan (2012-).
• University of Talca, Chile, Professor Claudio Tenreiro and Professor Miguel Lagos (2012-).
• Callaghan Innovation, Auckland, New Zealand, Dr Emilio Calius (2011-).
• Product Accelerator Consortium, Auckland, New Zealand, Dr Chuong Nguyen, (2011-).
• Auckland Bioengineering Institute, University of Auckland, Dr Justin Fernandez (2010-).
• Western Michigan University, USA, Professor Judah Ari-Gur (2011-).
• University of Quebec at Chicoutimi (UQAC), Quebec, Canada, Professor László Kiss and Professor Lyne St Georges (2008-).

Industrial Collaborations/Contracts

1.  Defence Science and Technology Group (DSTG): 

• Defence structures and materials experimentation collaborative program. 
• Exploring the interplay between composite degradation mechanisms in-service.
• Bio-inspired toughening of transparent adhesives.
• Development of crack growth models for ship welded structural components.
• Thermographic detection and prognostic assessment of impact damage in fibre composites.

2. Defence Materials Technology Centre (DMTC):

• Hybrid composite materials and structures (project number 3.48).
• Land vehicle alternative materials characterisation (project number 6.04).

3. Medical Research Future Fund - Frontier Health & Medical Research: Development and validation of Air Mobile Stroke Unit Platforms - Air MSU Project.

4.  Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE), New Zealand: A thumping good floor: granular metamaterials for quieter homes.

5. Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) for Rail Manufacturing: 

• Fire-retardant and lightweight composite materials for rolling stock carriages.
• A static and dynamic loading assessment of structural-critical composite material rolling stock carbody shells (project number 1.7.3).

6. Ford Motor Company, USA:  Metal powder flowability and depowder modelling for additive manufacture, and fatigue of additively manufactured aluminium alloys.

7. Energy Education Trust, Metamaterial based energy harvesting: a novel and efficient technology.

8. Defence Science Institute:

• Integrated topology optimisation tool for additive manufacturing.
• Development of mathematical and computational models to analyse extreme deformations in a wide variety of materials.
• Data driven ROM for analysis, prediction and control of transonic shock buffet.

9. Department of Defence Contract: Cost effectiveness of accessing overseas academic programs.

10. Joyce Foam Pty Ltd, Australia: Evaluation of mechanical properties of a new foam material (Hygroflex foam) in relation to pressure redistribution under body induced deformation for mitigation of bed ulcers development in medical mattresses, 2018.

11. Mandalay Resources, Costerfield, Victoria, Australia: Effect of Blasting on Machinery and Structures in Underground Mine, 2019 (Contact: Adam Place)

12. Australia Pacific Airports, Australia: Analysis and improvement of out of gauge (OOG) baggage handling and the overall checked baggage system (CBS) in airports, 2018-2022.

13. Chapman Tripp, New Zealand: Design and analysis of locks, 2015.

14. Simpson Grierson, New Zealand: Failure analysis of PVC pipes for leakage evaluation, 2014.

15. Rio Tinto Alcan, France: Simulation of Thermo-Mechanical Response during Anode Baking, 2012-2013.

16. John Gilbert and Company Ltd, New Zealand: Shaker Rig and Design, 2011 

17. Cooperative Research Centre for Advanced Composites (CRC-Composites), Australia: Water impact of composite helicopter structures.

18. CSIRO Division of Earth Science and Engineering, Perth, Australia: Simulation of rock mass deformation and fracture during magma intrusion and development of thermodynamically consistent formulations for geomechanics applications.

19.  CSIRO Division of Mathematics, Informatics, and Statistics, Melbourne, Australia: Development of numerical algorithms for solution of diffusion problems using the finite element method, 2007-2009.

20. Defence Science and Technology Group (DSTG), Australia: Topology optimisation of F/A-18 aircraft fuselage bulkhead for minimum weight design, as part of the weight reduction criteria, 2002-2005.

21. National Aerospace Laboratories, India: Residual strength based shape design of P3-Orion aircraft bulkhead stringer cutout, 2002-2005.

22. Bradken Rail, Australia: Optimum topology design of rail bogy sideframes for generating a reduced weight design, 2002-2005.

23. Noran Engineering Inc., USA: Genetic Algorithms for Optimal Design using NEiNastran, 2002-2005.