Editor Name: Sondipson Adhikari

Designation: Chair

University: Swansea University

Country: United Kingdom

Biography:

Prof Adhikari is the chair of Aerospace Engineering in the College of Engineering of Swansea University. He was a Wolfson Research Merit Award holder from the Royal Society. He received his PhD in 2001 from the University of Cambridge. During this time he was the Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Trust scholar at the Trinity College. He was anassistant Professor at the Department of Aerospace Engineering in Bristol University and a Junior Research Fellow in Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. He was a visiting Professor at the Carleton University, University of Paris East,University of Johannesburg and a visiting scientist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Research Interests: Computational mechanics, Nanomechanics, Composites and metamaterials, Dynamical systems, Uncertainty quantification, Vibration energy harvesting