Sridhar Seetharaman is the Chief Science Officer in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering.
Seetharaman received his undergraduate degree from the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden and his PhD from MIT. He spent most of his faculty career at Carnegie Mellon as the POSCO Chair of Steelmaking with a joint appointment at National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), followed by a period in the UK as the TATA-Royal Academy Chair of Low Carbon Technologies. Sridhar then served at DOE as a Senior Technology Advisor at EERE. He is a member of the Industrial Technology Innovation Advisory Committee (ITIAC). Currently Sridhar is with Arizona State University, holds a joint affiliate appointment at National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and is the CEO of EPIXC, DOE’s 7th Manufacturing Innovation Institute.
In 2023, the U.S. Department of Energy selected Arizona State University to receive up to $70 million to establish a new manufacturing innovation institute devoted to improve competitiveness for US manufacturing through energy efficient process heating.
EPIXC joins the DOE’s six other Manufacturing USA institutes, which convene the nation’s brightest minds to solve the country’s toughest manufacturing challenges and move novel process heating technologies out of the lab and into the market.
Education
PhD, Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bergsingenior, Metallurgy, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Jerry Silver Award for Best Paper 2017 for the work entitled “Real time measurements of contraction behaviors of peritectic steels during solidification.” Awarded by AIST, 2018
Brahm Prakash Visiting Professor IISC, Bangalore, India, 2013-2014
Best Paper Award for 19th Conference of Steel Rolling organized by IAS in Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina, November 2012 for the work entitled “Oxidation and embrittlement in grain boundaries induced by Cu in a low carbon steel with Cr and 0.2% Cu under different thermal and atmospheric conditions”
Top Overseas Professor Awarded by the Ministry of Education of China and the State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs of China. Guest Professor at USTB.
Jerry Silver Award for Best Paper 2013 for work entitled “Effect of Silicon on Hot Shortness.” Awarded by AIST, 2013
The American Ceramic Society’s Spriggs Phase Equilibria Award for the paper “Phase Equilibria in Synthetic Coal - Petcoke Slags (Al2O3-CaO-FeO-SiO2-V2O3), 2012
Elliott Lectureship Award, for contributions to education and research to the steel industry, Awarded by AIST, 2011
Benjamin Richard Teare Teaching Award, for excellence in teaching, course development, leadership and contributions to curriculum development and implementation. 2008
POSCO Development Professorship in Materials Science and Engineering, 2006
Philbrook Award, 2004, The Philbrook award recognizes outstanding contributions to both undergraduate and graduate education and was given to the department to honor the memory of Prof. Philbrook.
National Science Foundation CAREER award, 2004, The award recognizes and supports the early career-development activities of those teacher-scholars who are most likely to become academic leaders of the 21st century ($ 600,000)
Marcus A. Grossmann Young Author Award, ASM International: Awarded for best paper by author(s) under 40 selected in a specific volume (year) of the journals Metallurgical Transactions A & B, 2003
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Prize, A. von Humboldt, Germany, 2002: Awarded EUR 45,000 for outstanding contributions in research and teaching
Society of Phi Kappa Phi, 2002: Elected as full member of the academic honor society
Charles H. Herty Award, Iron and Steel Society, 2001: Awarded to the best paper of the year in steelmaking
Young Leader Award, Iron and Steel Society, 2000: Awarded to promising young leaders in the Iron and Steel Industry
EPSRC Advanced Research Fellow, Eng. and Phys. Sci. Res. Council, UK , 1999: 5-year faculty merit award by UK governmental funding for establishing academic career. Along with the awards, he was offered a full time tenured academic faculty position at the Department of Materials, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine
Sigma Xi, 1998: Elected as full member of the scientific honor society.
John Wulff Teaching Award, DMSE, MIT, USA, 1997: Awarded for accomplishments in graduate teaching at MIT
Hedersstipendiat, KTH, Sweden, 1994: Recipient of the yearly prize at the Royal Institute of Technology of Sweden (KTH) awarded to the best graduate from school of materials technology.
