Overview

Currently working as Jack and Kay Hockema Associate Professor in Civil Engineering at Lyles School of Civil and Construction Engineering, Purdue University, Indiana, USA. From January 2017 – September 2021, worked as Junior Professor at the University of Stuttgart, sponsored by fischerwerke GmbH & Co. KG, Germany, and led the department on Innovative strengthening methods using fastenings. Worked as the Head, Department of Fire Safety, Materials Testing Institute, University of Stuttgart, Germany from March 2020 until December 2020, as group leader and senior research engineer at the Institute of Construction Materials, University of Stuttgart, Germany from May 2013 – December 2016 and as Scientific Officer at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, India from September 2004 to April 2013. Received Ph.D. in 2013 from the University of Stuttgart. Authored more than 250 research papers including more than 100 papers in peer-reviewed international journals. Serving as the technical secretary for the fib TG 2.9 (Fastenings) committee and as a member of the fib TG 2.5 (Bond), ACI 216 (Fire), ACI 349 (Nuclear structures), ACI 352 (Joints), ACI 355 (Anchorage), ACI 408 (Bond), and ACI 440 (FRP) committees. Associate editor for ASCE Journal of Bridge Engineering, Materials and Structures (Rilem), and Indian Concrete Journal. Peer reviewer and guest editor for several international journals.