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. 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.
Professor Das has published more than 350 papers in international journals and conferences in collaboration with several universities, institutes and industries. He 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, Professor Das serves as the Chair of the ‘National Committee on Applied Mechanics’ of Engineers Australia. He has chaired/co-chaired several well-known conferences (e.g., ICM-13, ACAM-8, ACCM-3, ICCM-6).
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), University of Cape Town, South Africa, 2014
• 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 (out of 28 worldwide awardees), 2011–2012
• 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.
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.