Vikram Deshpande#
| Membership Number: | 6706 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2024 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://cambridgesolidmechanics.co.uk/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-3899-3573 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2010 - present Professor, Dept. of Engineering, University of Cambridge, UK
- 2009 - 2017 Visiting Professor, Mech. Engg., Technical University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands
- 2008 - 2010 Reader, Dept. of Engineering, University of Cambridge, UK
- 2007 - 2008 Assoc. Professor, Mech. Engg., University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
- 2004 - 2008 Senior Lecturer, Dept. of Engineering, University of Cambridge, UK
- 2003 - 2004 Lecturer, Dept. of Engineering, University of Cambridge, UK
- 2000 - 2001 Visiting Professor, Brown University, USA and Lindemann Trust Fellow
- 2000 - 2003 Assistant Lecturer, Dept. of Engineering, University of Cambridge, UK
- 1999 - 2000 Maudslay Research Fellow, Pembroke College, Cambridge, UK
- 1997 - 1999 Research Associate, Dept. of Engineering, University of Cambridge, UK
Fields of Scholarship
- Mechanobiology
- Solid mechanics
- Data-driven mechanics
- Microarchitectured solids
- Fluid-structure interaction in impact
- Chemo-mechanics
- Dislocation mechanics
Honours and Awards
- 2024 Zdeněk P. Bažant Medal for Failure and Damage Prevention, American Society of Civil Engineers
- 2023 Fellow, Royal Academy of Engineering, UK
- 2023 International Member US National Academy of Engineering
- 2022 Warner T. Koiter Medal, American Society of Mechanical Engineers
- 2022 European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant
- 2022 William Prager Medal, Society of Engineering Science
- 2022 Fellow, Euromech
- 2021 Gili Agostinelli Prize for pure or applied mechanics or classical mathematical physics awarded by Accademia delle Scienze, Torino, Italy
- 2021 Distinguished Alumnus Award, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IITB)
- 2020 Fellow, Royal Society of London
- 2020 Rodney Hill Prize in Solid Mechanics
- 2020 Fellow, Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining
- 2018 Sir William Hopkins Prize in Mathematical and Physical Sciences
- 2017 Werner Koester Award. Presented by the German Society of Materials Science (DGM) for the best paper published in the International Journal of Materials Research
- 2003 Philip Leverhulme Prize. Awarded by the Leverhulme Trust to researchers whose work has had an international impact at an early stage of their careers
- 2000 - 2001 Lindemann Research Fellowship. Awarded by the English-Speaking Union to conduct research at Brown University, USA
- 1999 - 2000 Maudslay Research Fellowship: Pembroke College, Cambridge
