RESEARCH INTERESTS                     

                           Physical Metallurgy, Phase Transformations, Mechanical Behavior
                           Deformation Mechanisms, Creep, Structure-Property Relations
                           Transmission Electron Microscopy, Diffraction, Spectroscopy
                           Intermetallics,High temperature alloys and Composites,
                           Nanoscale Materials, Thin Films and Interconnect materials

Dr. Vijay K. Vasudevan is presently Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Cincinnati (UC), Cincinnati, OH. He received his B.Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology and his Ph.D. (1986) in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. He then joined the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign initially as a postdoctoral research associate, later becoming research assistant professor. During that time, he was involved with research on rapid solidification processing, electron microscopy and mechanical behavior of maraging steels, high temperture aluminum alloys and lightweight intermetallics. In 1988 he joined the faculty at UC as an Assistant Professor, attaining his present rank of Professor in 1998. His long-standing research interests are in the evolution of structure and properties of materials, the physical phenomena that govern them and methods of characterization. His research is concerned with fundamental work on physical metallurgy, phase transformations, microstructural evolution, mechanical behavior, structure-property relations, creep and deformation mechanisms, and analytical electron microscopy of advanced lightweight materials, high temperature alloys and intermetallics (gamma titanium aluminides, niobium aluminides, molybdenum silicides, etc.) and nanoscale materials, thin films and novel materials in copper metallization. He has edited on book, published 104 scientific articles, presented 133 papers, including 46 invited talks, here and abroad, and has received awards for excellence in research, teaching and service (including, Fellow of ASMI, Fulbright Senior Scholar Award, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Fellow, Sigma Xi Young Investigator Award for Scientific Research and Neil Wandmacher Award for Outstanding Teaching). He is presently serving as the Chairman of the ASMI-MSCTS Structures Committee, Vice-Chairman of the ASMI-MSCTS Council, member of the Board of Review of Metallurgical and Materials Transactions; and was the past-chairman of the ASMI-MSCTS Phase Transformations Committee. He also serves as a reviewer for many journals and proposals for federal agencies

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