Arunava Majumdar
5131 Etcheverry
Hall
Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and
Engineeing
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720
tel: (510)643-8199
Professor Arun
Majumdar received a B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian
Institute of Technology, Bombay (IIT-B) in 1985, and a PhD in
Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in
1989, for research conducted in the laboratory of Professor Chang-Lin
Tien. After being on the faculty of Arizona State University (1989-92)
and University of California, Santa Barbara (1992-96), he began his
faculty appointment in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the
University of California, Berkeley on January 1, 1997. He currently
holds the Almy and Agnes Maynard Chair Professorship in the College of
Engineering.
In addition to
his faculty appointment, Professor Majumdar serves as the Director of
the Berkeley Nanosciences and Nanoengineering Institute. He is also a
member of the Nanotechnology Technical Advisory Group to the
President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST). He
served as the founding chair of the ASME Nanotechnology Institute, and
is currently a member of the Council of Materials Science and
Engineering at the Department of Energy. He also serves on the
editorial board of the International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer,
Molecular and Cellular Biomechanics, and is the editor in chief of
Micro/Nanoscale Thermophysical Engineering.
Professor
Majumdar is a recipient of the Institute Silver Medal (IIT-B) (1985),
NSF Young Investigator Award (1992-97), ASME Melville Medal (1992), the
Best Paper award of the ASME Heat Transfer Division of ASME (1993),
Gustus Larson Memorial Award of the ASME (2001), and Distinguished
Alumni Award from IIT-B (2002). He is a fellow of ASME and AAAS, and is
a member of the US National Academy of Engineering.
Professor
Majumdar's research interests are in the broad area of mechanics and
transport in nanostructured materials. Of particular current interest
are phonon dynamics and transport in low-dimensional materials,
materials and devices for thermoelectric energy conversion, transport
and reactions in confined liquids (nanofluidics), chemomechanics of
small and macromolecules with applications in chem/biosensing, and
nanoscale imaging.