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Engineered Materials and Structures Laboratory (EMSL)
Principal Investigator
Dr. Susmita Naskar is working as Lecturer B in the School of Engineering at the University of Southampton. She worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Whiting School of Engineering of Johns Hopkins University in collaboration with the Army Research Lab, USA. She moved to the USA after completing her doctoral degree from the University of Aberdeen. She was also a visiting doctoral student at the University of Oxford during that period.
Susmita’s research focuses on the multiscale mechanics and multiphysics behaviour of engineered materials, advanced composites, and architected structures. Her work combines computational design, nonlinear mechanics, experimental characterisation, data-driven modelling, and additive manufacturing to develop materials and structures with tailored, adaptive, and multifunctional performance. Particular areas of interest include mechanical metamaterials, multifunctional composites, origami-inspired structures, and next-generation manufacturing strategies for translating complex material architectures from computational concepts into experimentally validated engineering systems.
Principal Investigator’s Experiences:
University of Southampton (Current Appointment)
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Lecturer B, School of Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (2019 – 2021)
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Assistant Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering
Johns Hopkins University (2019 – 2021) [Joint appointment: US Army and Hopkins Extreme Material Institute, USA]
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Postdoctoral research fellow
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (2014 – 2015)
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Junior Research Fellow
Ensconce Corporation of India (2011 – 2012)
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Graduate engineer
Tata Steel (2010-2011)
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Graduate engineer
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
2015 – 2018 Ph.D., School of Engineering, University of Aberdeen, UK; Visiting Ph.D. scholar, University of Oxford, UK
2012 – 2014 Master of Technology, Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India
2006-2010 Bachelor of Technology, Department of Civil Engineering, WBUT, India
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