Dr. Ramesh Talreja (Texas A&M University)

Dr. Ramesh Talreja is currently Tenneco Endowed Professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering and in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University. Prior to that, 1991-2001, he was a professor of aerospace engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. His early research career was at The Technical University of Denmark, where he received his PhD (1974) and Doctor of Technical Sciences (1985). Dr. Talreja has published extensively in the composite materials field, including Fatigue of Composite Materials (1987), Damage Mechanics of Composite Materials (editor, 1994), Polymer Matrix Composites (editor, 2000), Damage and Failure of Composite Materials (with C.V. Singh, 2012) and Modeling Damage, Fatigue and Failure of Composite Materials (editor with J. Varna, 2016). He has written 34 book chapters, given over 240 invited presentations at conferences, universities and industry R&D organizations, taught over 20 short courses, and is or has been on Editorial Boards of 18 international journals. He is the recipient of the 2013 ICCM Scala Award and World Fellow and Life Member of ICCM. His current interests are in cost-effective and sustainable design of composite structures.