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Engineered Materials and Structures Lab (EMSL)
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We are located at the Boldrewood Innovation Campus, University of Southampton. Dr. Susmita Naskar leads the group. Our research is interdisciplinary, combining theory and experiment in solid mechanics, engineering design, and materials science in areas including but not limited to machine learning, uncertainty quantification, multifunctional composites, origami systems, flexible structures, energy harvesting, and mechanical metamaterial. We investigate a wide variety of application areas of aerospace, mechanical and structural systems across a number of industries including consumer products, robotics, space, biomedical, civil, mechanical, machine design, and aerospace. Our team has a strong foundation in theoretical modeling, complemented by state-of-the-art laboratory facilities for material synthesis, fabrication, and characterization. Check out our Research and Publications page for more details!
We have regular openings for highly self-motivated undergrad, graduate students, postdoc and visiting scientists. Interested candidates are welcome to inquire Dr. Naskar with your CV/resume via email, and submit a brief informal application via here.
Immediate openings:
We are looking for students for multiple positions to join our lab, especially those with experience in the scientific machine learning algorithm, solid mechanics, composite, mechanics of material, design of folding structures, energy harvesting etc. If you are interested please contact Dr. Naskar (S.Naskar@soton.ac.uk)
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Three Postdoc positions available on reinforcement learning for bio-inspired mechanical metamaterials in collaboration with Ansys.
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PhD position on impact-resistant active mechanical metamaterials (UK Students only)
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PhD position on origami-inspired metamaterial (UK/International)
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PhD position AI-Driven computational mechanics for data-enhanced modeling (UK/International)
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Fully-funded two internship positions are available on the topics of "machine learning-assisted uncertainty quantification" and "AI-enabled mechanical metamaterials". If you are interested, please email me (UK/International).
News & Events
Group HIGHLIGHTS
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We are editing a special issue in this emerging field for one of the oldest and most prestigious IOP Publishing NANO journals. Please submit suitable high-quality papers (including review articles) covering the broad domain of 2D materials, twisted 2D materials and heterostructures, nano-architected 2D materials etc. LINK
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We are organizing a summer school on mechanical metamaterial at the University of Southampton in collaboration with Metamaterials Network. LINK
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EMSL group attended ASME (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers)'s Structural Mechanics, Structural Dynamics, and Materials (SSDM) conference in Houston, TX and EMSL PhD students Aditi Sharma and Soumyadeep Mondal gave presentations on origami-based metamaterial and active mechanical metamaterial.
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EMSL PhD student Priyanka Patil submitted her PhD thesis!
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Dr. Naskar has been awarded as a fellow (FRAeS) for the Royal Aeronautical Society.
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We organized a mini-symposium on "Advances in Computational Mechanics and Design of Mechanical Metamaterials" at UKACM2025, London. EMSL PhD students Aditi Sharma and Soumyadeep Mondal also delivered impressive presentations on origami-based metamaterial and active mechanical metamaterial.
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Dr. Naskar gave an invited talk on Advanced Structural Health Monitoring: Leveraging Machine Learning Techniques at Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay for the five-day workshop on Structural and Machinery diagnostics.
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We have developed thickness-wise graded metamaterials for hydrogen storage and enhanced sustainability under extreme environments. This is one of the early attempts for developing novel metamaterials in the field of hydrogen storage and sustainable green aviation. LINK
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We have organized Dr. Naskar chaired a panel session at AIAA SciTech 2025 on Optimally-Tailored Microstructures and Architected Metamaterials at AIAA SciTech 2025.
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Dr. Naskar chaired session at Fourth International Conference on Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures (ICMAMS) on advanced composites, metamaterials and sandwich structures.
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EMSL PhD student Priyanka presented her work on material and geometrical uncertainties of reducible composites at Fourth International Conference on Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures (ICMAMS)
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EMSL PhD student Somuyadeep's research work on energy harvesting got accepted in AIAA LINK
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EMSL PhD students presented their research work at the Young Researchers Conference at University of Southampton. Aditi got 1st prize for her work on origami inspired metamaterial and Soumyadeep got third prize for his work on active metamaterial.
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EMSL PhD student Aditi Sharma's work on origami metamaterial is selected for media publication for The Space South Central newsletter 2024. ​​​​​​
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Dr. Naskar has joined the Editorial Board of Discover Materials, a peer-reviewed journal published by Springer Nature.
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Dr. Naskar gave an invited seminar presentation at Imperial College London on 27th September 2024.
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Dr. Naskar has joined the Editorial Board of Nature Scientific Reports, a peer-reviewed journal published by Nature Portfolio.
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EMSL PhD student Soumyadeep's paper got accepted at the Nature Portfolio's Communications Engineering LINK​​
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Dr. Naskar organised a two-day workshop (27-28 June 2024) with Prof. Nitesh Yelve on AI-enabled Structural health monitoring supported by our joint funding with the Mechanical Engineering Department Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay LINK
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Our book on "Vibration Engineering: Modeling, Simulation, Experimentation, and Applications" is now published by CRC Press USA LINK
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Sharma A., Naskar S., Mukhopadhyay T., (2025) Multi-physically programmable tubular origami metamaterials: Exploitable nexus of geometry, folding mechanics and stimuli-responsive physics Advanced Science, Wiley Publication (In Press)
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Mondal S., Mukhopadhyay T., Naskar S. (2025) Active heterogeneous mode coupling in bi-level multi-physically architected metamaterials for temporal, on-demand and tunable programming Communications Engineering, Nature Publication (In Press)
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Ghuku S., Naskar S., Mukhopadhyay T., (2025) Stimuli-responsive programmable mechanics of bi-level architected nonlinear mechanical metamaterials, Mechanics of Materials, Elsevier Publication (In Press)
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Awasthi M., Singh A., Naskar S., Mukhopadhyay T., (2024) Constitutive behavior of asymmetric multi-material honeycombs with bi-level variably-thickened composite architecture, Thin-Walled Structures, 112183, Elsevier Publication.
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Kundu D., Naskar S., Mukhopadhyay T., (2024) Active mechanical cloaking for unsupervised damage resilience in programmable elastic metamaterials, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 382 20230360, Royal Society.
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Khurana A., Naskar S., Varma R. K., Mukhopadhyay T., (2024) Smart electro-magneto-viscoelastomer minimum energy structures with particle-reinforcements: Theoretical equilibrium and nonlinear dynamics of actuated configurations, International Journal of Engineering Science, 103974, Elsevier Publication. ​
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Mukhopadhyay T., Naskar S., Kundu D., Adhikari S., (2023) Effective elastic moduli of space-filled multi-material composite lattices, Composites Communications, 42 101656, Elsevier Publication.
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Saumya K., Naskar S., Mukhopadhyay T. (2023) 'Magic' of twisted multi-layered graphene and 2D nano-heterostructures, Nano Futures, 7 032005, IOP Publishing.
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Tiwari P., Naskar S., Mukhopadhyay T., (2023) Programmed out-of-plane curvature to enhance the multi-modal stiffness of bending-dominated composite lattices, AIAA Journal, 61(4) 1820-1838, AIAA Publication.
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Naskar S., Shingare K., Mondal S., Mukhopadhyay T. (2022) Flexoelectricity and Surface Effects on Coupled Electromechanical Responses of Graphene Reinforced Functionally Graded Nanocomposites: A unified size-dependent semi-analytical framework, Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 169 108757, Elsevier Publication.
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