Dr. Anish Kumar, IGCAR IGCAR

Dr. Anish Kumar is heading Non-Destructive Evaluation Division in Metallurgy and Materials Group at Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam. He obtained B.E. in Metallurgical Engineering from Bihar Institute of Technology, Sindri in 1996 and Ph.D. from IIT, Kharagpur in 2005 on the topic “Correlation of microstructure and mechanical properties with ultrasonic parameters in metallic materials”. In the past 23 years, he has been involved in the non-destructive microstructural characterization in a wide range of alloy systems using acoustic and magnetic techniques and development of innovative methodologies for ultrasonic inspection of fast breeder reactor components. He worked as post-doctoral fellows at Fraunhofer Institute for NDT (IZFP), Germany (as Alexander von Humboldt fellow) and the University of Michigan, USA for one year each. He has about 110 publications in peer reviewed international journals. He is the recipient of Science & Technology Excellence Award (2015) from Dept. of Atomic Energy, National NDT Award in R&D (2015) from Indian Society for NDT (ISNT) and several young researcher/ scientist awards from various Indian and International societies, such as Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE), Indian National Science Academy (INSA), Indian Institute of Metals (IIM), The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS-USA), International Committee for NDT (ICNDT) and ISNT.