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Dr. Subra Suresh
[Note: The following biography was provided at the time of the awards announcement and may not be current.] Subra Suresh is the Dean of Engineering and Ford Professor of Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he holds joint faculty appointments in Materials Science and Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Biological Engineering, and Health Sciences and Technology. He is recognized internationally for his contributions to the areas of mechanical behavior of materials, surface engineering, nanotechnology, and cell and molecular nanomechanics with particular connections to infectious diseases and cancer. He has authored about 220 journal articles, three widely followed books, and 15 patents, and has co-edited a number of research volumes. Prior to joining the faculty at MIT in 1993, he was a Professor of Engineering at Brown University. Suresh has been elected to US National Academy of Engineering, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Indian National Academy of Engineering, Indian Academy of Sciences, Royal Spanish Academy of Sciences, Academy of Sciences of the Developing World based in Trieste, Italy, and German National Academy of Sciences. He has been elected a Fellow or Honorary Member of all of the major materials professional societies in the USA and India. A recipient of the 2006 Acta Materialia Gold Medal, 2007 European Materials Medal (the first non-European selected to receive this prize given jointly by 26 European materials societies), 2008 Eringen Medal of the Society of Engineering Science, and a Senior Humboldt Research Prize, Suresh holds an honorary doctorate from Sweden’s Royal Institute of Technology. In 2006, MIT’s Technology Review magazine selected Suresh as one of the top 10 researchers whose work will have “significant impact on business, medicine or culture”. Suresh’s recent leadership activities include his roles as: the Founding Director of GEM4 (Global Enterprise for Micromechanics and Molecular Medicine), Founding Chair of the first program on Advanced Materials of the Singapore-MIT Alliance, MIT’s lead faculty member credited with the conception, planning and creation of MIT’s first overseas research center: the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology Center in 2007, and Head of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at MIT during 2000-2006. Suresh has served as a consultant, advisor or member of the governing/advisory board for a number of international organizations. More than 100 students, post-doctoral fellows and visiting researchers trained in his research group occupy prominent positions in academia, industry and government around the world.
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