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Anirudh Raju Natarajan

EPFL STI IMX MADES
MXG 230 (Bâtiment MXG)
Station 12
1015 Lausanne

Expertise

Computational materials science, Thermodynamics, Kinetics, Phase transformations, Metallurgy, Statistical mechanics
Anirudh received a B.Tech. in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, a M.S in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and a Ph.D. in Materials from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He set up the laboratory of materials design and simulation (MADES) at EPFL in 2022. His research interests are in the computational design and discovery of advanced engineering materials.

Professionals experiences

Postdoctoral researcher

Education

Metallurgical and Materials Engineering

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2008 – 2012 Indian Institute of Technology Madras

Materials science and engineering

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2012 – 2013 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Materials

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2013 – 2018 University of California, Santa Barbara

Teaching & PhD

Current Phd

Yann Lorris Müller, Damien Khai Jie Lee, Lorenzo Piersante, Deepak Somani, Claire Alicia Paetsch

Courses

Advanced phase transformations

MSE-483

This course provides an overview of the phenomenological concepts and mathematical tools that have been developed to study the thermodynamics, kinetics and mechanics of phase transformations.

Thermodynamics and energetics II

ME-351

This course will discuss advanced topics in thermodynamics with a focus on studying gas phases, mixtures, and phase transformations. The application of these principles to various practical systems such as batteries, fuel cells etc. will be discussed.