
Sudarsanam Babu
UT/ORNL Governor’s Chair of Advanced Manufacturing; Director of the Bredesen Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Graduate Education; Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering; Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Bio
Dr. Suresh Babu holds a PhD in materials science and metallurgy from University of Cambridge and is currently director of the Bredesen Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Graduate Education, as well as UT/ORNL Governor's Chair of Advanced Manufacturing. In this role, he bridges ORNL expertise, including DOE’s Manufacturing Demonstration Facility, to develop a collaborative research ecosystem locally and employ engineering solutions to manufacturing industries. Dr. Babu has 21 years of experience in advanced manufacturing, additive manufacturing, physical metallurgy, and computational materials modeling.
Publications
February 2022
Journal: Additive Manufacturing
November 2021
Journal: Composite Structures
November 2021
Journal: Scripta Materialia
October 2021
Journal: Additive Manufacturing
July 2021
Journal: Journal of Nuclear Materials