Debes Bhattacharyya
University of Auckland, New Zealand
Biography
Professor Debes Bhattacharyya is a Distinguished Professor (holds a Personal Chair) in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and has been the founding Director of the Centre for Advanced Composite Materials (CACM) at the University of Auckland, since 2004. He also holds an Adjunct Professor position at Washington State University, Pullman, USA. Professor Bhattacharyya was the Head of Mechanical Engineering Department from 1999 to early 2005. His current research interest primarily includes the mechanics and manufacturing of composite materials. He has delivered more than 50 keynote/plenary/invited lectures at different conferences and technical gatherings around the world and has served on the Editorial Advisory Boards of eight international journals and is the Associate Editor of J. of Nano and Smart Materials. Prof. Bhattacharyya has about 450 scientific/technical publications including several edited/authored books and a number of book chapters. He has successfully implemented several international patents. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of NZ and a Distinguished Fellow of the Institution of Professional Engineers NZ. For his international academic achievements he has recently been awarded an honorary ‘Doctor of Engineering’ (honoris causa) by the University of Southern Queensland, Australia. In 2012, he was also awarded by IPENZ the Supreme Technical Award (John Cranko Award) for his professional and academic contributions in Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering.