Educational Qualifications

• PhD, 2001, University of Cambridge (Trinity College), Cambridge, UK.
• MSc, 1997, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.
• Bachelor of Engineering, 1995, University of Calcutta (now Bengal Engineering and Science University), India..

Work History

1. 04/2007-Present: Chair of Aerospace Engineering, Swansea University.
2. 07/2009-Present: Visiting Professor, University of Johannesburg.
3. 09/2004-09/2009: EPSRC Advanced Research Fellow.
4. 01/2003-03/2007: Lecturer in dynamics and control: Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Bristol.
5. 07/2006-08/2006: Visiting Scientist, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA.
6. 06/2006-07/2006: Visiting Professor, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.
7. 08/2001-01/2003: Junior Research Fellow, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge.
8. 11/2000-12/2002: Research Associate, Cambridge University Engineering Department.
9. 01/1998-10/2000: Cambridge University Engineering Department: Laboratory demonstrator for first and third year students in vibration engineering, supervisor in mechanics and structures for Kings College and Pembroke College, Cambridge.
10. 06/1996-09/1997: Project Assistant: Civil Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

Major Awards and Honours

• 10/2010: Awarded the Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowship.
• 05/2010: Received the Wolfson Research Merit Award from the Royal Society.
• 07/2009: Awarded the Newton International Fellowship (award value £159,000) for Dr. Sk. Faruque Ali.
• 10/2008: Awarded the Newton International Fellowship (award value £159,000) for Dr. Rajib Chowdhury.
• 05/2008: Elected into a Visiting Fellowship from Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge.
• 10/2007: Winner of the Philip Leverhulme Prize 2007. (prize value £70,000).
• 01/2006: Member of the Winning project team in the EPSRC Ideas factory Workshop on Scientific Uncertainty and Decision Making (awarded £338,591).
• 05/2004: EPSRC Advanced Research Fellowship.
• 08/2001: Junior Research Fellowship (in science and engineering) from Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge.
• 06/2001: Second prize from the Acoustical Society of America for the best student paper/presentation in the 141st Meeting at Chicago, USA. ($150 and a certificate).
• 04/1999: John Winbolt Prize (best student paper prize) from the Cambridge University for the paper entitled `Rates of change of eigenvalues and eigenvectors in damped dynamic system' appeared in the AIAA Journal, 37[11] (1999), pp. 1452-1458. (£1200 and a certificate).
• 09/1998: Overseas Research Student Award.
• 10/1997: Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Trust Scholar at the Trinity College, Cambridge.
• 10/1997: Honorary Cambridge Nehru Scholarship from New Delhi.

Research

1. Uncertainty Quantification (UQ) in Computational Mechanics
2. Bio & Nanomechanics (nanotubes, graphene, cell mechanics)
3. Dynamics of Complex Engineering Systems
4. Inverse Problems for Linear and Non-linear Structural Dynamics
5. Renewable Energy (wind energy, vibration energy harvesting)

Publications

• 134 Refereed journal papers
• h-index = 15
• 95 Refereed conference papers
• 23 Other publications
• Complete list of publications

Some recent selected publications are:

1. Adhikari, S., "Stochastic finite element analysis using a reduced orthonormal vector basis", Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 200[21-22] (2011), pp. 1804-1821
2. Litak, G., Friswell, M. I. and Adhikari, S., "Magnetopiezoelastic energy harvesting driven by random excitations", Applied Physics Letters, 96[21] (2010), pp. 214103:1-3.
3. Wang, C. W., Murmu, T. and Adhikari, S., "Mechanisms of nonlocal effect on the vibration of nanoplates", Applied Physics Letters, 98[15] (2011), pp. 153101:1-3.
4. Adhikari, S. and Chowdhury, R., "The calibration of carbon nanotube based bio-nano sensors", Journal of Applied Physics, 107[12] (2010), pp. 124322:1-8.
5. Potrykus, A. and Adhikari, S., "Dynamical response of damped structural systems driven by jump processes", Probabilistic Engineering Mechanics, 25[3] (2010), pp. 305-314.
6. Adhikari, S., "Generalized Wishart distribution for probabilistic structural dynamics", Computational Mechanics, 45[5] (2010), pp. 495-511.
7. Adhikari, S., Friswell, M. I. and Inman, D. J., "Piezoelectric energy harvesting from broadband random vibrations", Smart Materials & Structures, 18[11] (2009), pp. 115005:1-7.
8. Wang, C. Y., Li, C. F., and Adhikari, S., "Dynamic behaviors of microtubules in cytosol", Journal of Biomechanics, 42[9] (2009), pp. 1270-1274.
9. Scarpa, F., Adhikari, S. and Phani, A. Srikanth, "Effective mechanical properties of single graphene sheets", Nanotechnology, 20[1-2] (2009), pp. 065709:1-11.
10. Adhikari, S., "Qualitative dynamic characteristics of a non-viscously damped oscillator", Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series - A, 461[2059] (2005), pp. 2269 - 2288.  

Invited Lectures

1. Complete list with downloadable slides
2. A Reduced Orthogonal Projection Approach for Stochastic Finite Element Analysis, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK, 14 September 2010.
3. Keynote: Uncertainty Quantification in Structural Dynamics: A Reduced Random Matrix Approach: at the 5th International ASRANet Conference (ASRANet 2010), Edinburgh, Scotland, 14 June 2010.
4. Keynote: Collocation based high dimensional model representation for stochastic partial differential equations: at the Fourth European Congress on Computational Mechanics (ECCM 2010), Paris, France, 20 May 2010.
5. Uncertainty in Structural Dynamics: Analysis & Identification at the University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, April 2009.
6. Uncertainty Quantification in Structural Dynamics at the University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa, March 2009.
7. Computational methods in Structural Mechanics & Applications at the University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa, March 2009.
8. Uncertainty Quantification for Complex Aero-mechanical Systems at the, Calculating the Effects of Uncertainty in Advanced Structures Workshop, London, UK, May 2008.
9. Uncertainty Quantification in Structural Dynamics: A Random Matrix Approach at the, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, USA, August 2006.
10. Random Matrix Method for Stochastic Structural Mechanics at the, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, June 2006.
11. A short course on probabilistic structural dynamics at CISM International Center for Mechanical Sciences, Udine, Italy, June 2005.
12. Identification of Damping at the University of Catania, Catania, Italy, June 2005.

Editorial & Review Works

• 05/2011-Present: Editorial Board member of Machines: Machinery and Automation.
• 06/2010-Present: Editorial Board member of Modelling and Simulation in Engineering
• 08/2009-Present: Editorial Board member of the International Journal of Mathematics in Engineering, Science and Aerospace (MESA).
• 03/2009-Present: Editorial Advisory Board member of the Journal of Sound and Vibration.
• 01/2009-Present: Editorial Board member of International Journal of Engineering Under Uncertainty: Hazards, Assessment and Mitigation.
• 10/2008-Present: Editorial Advisory Board member of The Open Numerical Methods Journal.
• 01/2008-Present: Editorial Advisory Board member of The Open Acoustics Journal.
• 01/2006-Present: Associate Editor of Shock and Vibration.
• Reviewer for 51 academic journals, 14 conferences, 3 funding bodies and book reviewer for three publishers.

Association with Professional Bodies

• 01/2010-Present: Member of American Society Of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).
• 09/2007-Present: Member of ASCE Probabilistic Methods Committee.
• 05/2007-Present: Member of the Stochastic Process and Stochastic Analysis Cluster of the Wales Institute of Mathematical and Computational Sciences (WIMCS).
• 10/2005-Present: Member of Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) peer review college.
• 08/2005-Present: Associate Member of The Institute of Nanotechnology (IoN).
• 02/2005-Present: Member of Uncertainty Quantification and Model Validation (UQMV) technical division of SEM.
• 07/2004-Present: Member of AIAA Non-Deterministic Approaches Technical committee (NDA-TC).
• 10/2006-Present: Senior Member of American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) (Member from 04/2004).
• 02/1999-Present: Member of Society for Experimental Mechanics (SEM).
• 11/1998-10/2002: Fellow of Cambridge Philosophical Society.