Bio

K.C. Hari Kumar is a Professor in the Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. He earned his PhD in Computing Phase Diagrams of Iron-base Alloys from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi in 1992. His research focuses on Gibbs energy modeling using Calphad, diffusion-controlled transformations in materials, applications of density functional theory in materials science, and materials design using  physical metallurgy principles and computational thermodynamics. He has authored nearly 100 research papers and book chapters. He is in the editorial board of journals such as Calphad, Metallurgical & Materials Transactions A, and Journal of Phase Equilibria and Diffusion.