Faculty

Kaushik Bhattacharya
Howell N. Tyson, Sr., Professor of Mechanics and Materials Science; Vice Provost
Degrees and Appointments
B.Tech., Indian Institute of Technology, 1986; Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1991. Assistant Professor, Caltech, 1993-99; Associate Professor, 1999-2000; Professor, 2000-10; Tyson, Sr., Professor, 2010-; Executive Officer, 2007-16; Vice Provost, 2016-.
Assistant(s)
Research Group Matters
Stacie Takase
350 Gates-Thomas Laboratory
(626) 395-3389
stakase@caltech.edu
For matters related to the Vice Provost for Research office use vpr@caltech.edu
Research Group Website Personal WebsiteResearch Overview
Professor Bhattacharya studies the mechanical behavior of solids, and specifically uses theory to guide the development of new materials. Current research concerns three broad areas: (i) Active materials such as shape-memory alloys, ferroelectrics and liquid crystal elastomers, (ii) Heterogeneous materials and designing unprecedented properties by exploiting heterogeneities, (iii) Coarse-grained density functional theory to understand defects in solids.
List of Research Areas
mechanics of materials, continuum mechanics, active materials, shape-memory alloys, heterogeneous materials, density functional theory
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