Anirudh Raju Natarajan
Fields of expertise
Computational materials science, Thermodynamics, Kinetics, Phase transformations, Metallurgy, Statistical mechanics
Biography
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.Teaching & PhD
Teaching
Materials Science and Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
PhD Students
Luo Bosang, Müller Yann Lorris, Paetsch Claire Alicia, Piersante Lorenzo, Somani Deepak,Courses
Thermodynamics and energetics II
This course will discuss advanced topics in thermodynamics with a focus on studying gas
phases, mixtures, phase transformations and combustion. The application of these principles
to various practical systems such as batteries, fuel cells etc. will be discussed.
Seminar series on advances in materials (autumn)
A series of seminars on selected current and emerging topics in Materials will be presented by experts.
Advanced phase transformations
This course provides an overview of the phenomenological concepts and mathematical tools that have been developed to study the thermodynamics, kinetics and mechanics of solid-state phase transformations.