A UPM proffesor, visiting chair at the Indian Institute of Science
Javier Llorca has been apointed to the Professor Brahm Prakash Visiting Chair, that has been occupied by important scientist from all over the world.
Javier Llorca, Professor of Technical University of Madrid and Director of IMDEA Materials Institute has been appointed to the Professor Brahm Prakash Visiting Chair at the Indian Institute of Science during 2013 and 2014. This endowed chair was created in 1990 to honor the memory of professor Brahm Prakash, the first indian citizen to become director of the Metallurgy department at the Indian Institute of Science, who played a key role in the development of Metallurgy and Materials Science in India during the last century.
Since its creation, the Professor Brahm Prakash Visiting Chair has been occupied by scientists from all over the world with an international reputation in Materials Science and Engineering that deliver one or several courses during one month at the Indian Institute of Science. Among them, it is worth noting the names of Subra Suresh, former director of the National Science Foundation of the US, John Banhart, director of the Institute of Applied Materials of the Helmholtz-Centre Berlin, Tony Rollett, professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, or Subhash Mahajan, professor of the Chemical Engineering and Material Science Department at the University of California at Davis.
Professor LLorca imparted two courses the last August on multiscale modelling of composites and high temperature nanomechanics at the Department of Materials, Indian Institute of Science.
About the Indian Institute of Science
The Indian Institute of Science, located in Bangalore, was established in 1909. It is the oldest university in India and, in the century that has passed since its inception, it has grown to become India´s premier center for research and postgraduate education in science and engineering. In particular, the faculty and alumni of the Institute have been responsible for establishing and spearheading many new institutions and programs across the country, including the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, the Atomic Energy Program, the Indian Space Research Organization as well as the first Indian Institute of Technology at Kharagpur. The Institute offers a variety of Master and Doctoral degree programs in a wide spectrum of disciplines in science and engineering.