Dr. Saurabh S. Nene works as Assistant Professor at the Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, IIT Jodhpur from August 2020. His academic journey started at the College of Engineering, Pune (COEP) where he completed his B. Tech. in Metallurgical Engineering in 2010, followed by M. Tech. in Materials Science from IIT Bombay in 2012. Later, he joined Ph.D. under a joint venture of IIT Bombay, India, and Monash University, Australia, where he received best PhD thesis award. Dr. Saurabh completed his doctoral research in 3.5 years in 2016. After completing his Ph.D., he joined COEP as Adjunct Professor in the Dept. Metallurgy and Materials Science and, later, moved to Centre for Friction Stir Processing (CFSP), University of North Texas (UNT) as Post-Doctoral Research Associate in March 2017, where he served for almost 3.5 years.
Dr. Saurabh has worked in broader domains of physical and mechanical metallurgy with a focus on structure-property correlations in high entropy alloys. Currently, his research group focuses on designing and processing of microstructurally flexible high entropy alloys which have multi-functionality. He has published more than 71 International research papers with h-index of 21 and i10 of 34. His work on ultralight Mg-4Li-1Ca alloy design work was noted by Materials Science Magazine "Materials Today," and he was also listed in the top 2% scientist list in the field of Materials Science in 2021-2022.