WIMCS

Professor Sondipan Adhikari

Specialist Subjects: Structural dynamics, probabilistic methods, random matrix theory

Educational Qualifications

PhD, September 2000, University of Cambridge (Trinity College), Cambridge, UK.
MSc, September 1997, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.
Bachelor of Engineering, June 1995, Bengal Engineering & Science University, Shibpur, India.

Work History

04/2007-Present: Professor of Aerospace Engineering, Swansea University.
07/2009-Present: Visiting Professor, University of Johannesburg.
09/2004-09/2009: EPSRC Advanced Research Fellow.
01/2003-03/2007: Lecturer in dynamics and control: Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Bristol.
07/2006-08/2006: Visiting Scientist, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA.
06/2006-07/2006: Visiting Professor, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.
08/2001-01/2003: Junior Research Fellow, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge.
11/2000-12/2002: Research Associate, Cambridge University Engineering Department.
01/1998-10/2000: Cambridge University Engineering Department: Laboratory demonstrator for first and third year students in vibration engineering, supervisor in mechanics and structures for Kings College and Pembroke College, Cambridge.
06/1996-09/1997: Project Assistant: Civil Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

Major Awards and Honours

05/2010: Received the Wolfson Research Merit Award from the Royal Society.
07/2009: Awarded the Newton International Fellowship (award value £159,000) for Dr. Sk. Faruque Ali.
10/2008: Awarded the Newton International Fellowship (award value £159,000) for Dr. Rajib Chowdhury.
05/2008: Elected into a Visiting Fellowship from Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge.
10/2007: Winner of the Philip Leverhulme Prize 2007. (prize value �70,000).
01/2006: Member of the Winning project team in the EPSRC Ideas factory Workshop on Scientific Uncertainty and Decision Making (awarded £338,591).
05/2004: EPSRC Advanced Research Fellowship.
08/2001: Junior Research Fellowship (in science and engineering) from Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge.
06/2001: Second prize from the Acoustical Society of America for the best student paper/presentation in the 141st Meeting at Chicago, USA. ($150 and a certificate).
04/1999: John Winbolt Prize (best student paper prize) from the Cambridge University for the paper entitled `Rates of change of eigenvalues and eigenvectors in damped dynamic system' appeared in the AIAA Journal, 37[11] (1999), pp. 1452-1458. (£1200 and a certificate).
09/1998: Overseas Research Student Award.
10/1997: Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Trust Scholar at the Trinity College, Cambridge.
10/1997: Honorary Cambridge Nehru Scholarship from New Delhi.

Research

Publications

92 Refereed journal papers
78 Refereed conference papers
21 Other publications
Complete list of publications

Some recent selected publications are:

Litak, G., Friswell, M. I. and Adhikari, S., "Magnetopiezoelastic energy harvesting driven by random excitations", Applied Physics Letters, in press.
Scarpa, F., Adhikari, S., Gil, A. J. and Remillat, C., "The bending of single layer graphene sheets: Lattice versus continuum approach", Nanotechnology, 21[12] (2010), pp. 125702:1-9.
Potrykus, A. and Adhikari, S., "Dynamical response of damped structural systems driven by jump processes", Probabilistic Engineering Mechanics, 25[3] (2010), pp. 305-314.
Adhikari, S., "Generalized Wishart distribution for probabilistic structural dynamics", Computational Mechanics, 45[5] (2010), pp. 495-511.
Adhikari, S. and Friswell, M. I., "Distributed parameter model updating using Karhunen-Loève expansion", Mechanical System and Signal Processing, 24[2] (2010), pp. 326-339.
Chowdhury, R., Adhikari, S. and Mitchell, J., "Vibrating carbon nanotube based bio-sensors", Physica E: Low-dimensional Systems and Nanostructures, 42[2] (2009), pp. 104-109.
Adhikari, S., Friswell, M. I. and Inman, D. J., "Piezoelectric energy harvesting from broadband random vibrations", Smart Materials & Structures, 18[11] (2009), pp. 115005:1-7.
Wang, C. Y., Li, C. F., and Adhikari, S., "Dynamic behaviors of microtubules in cytosol", Journal of Biomechanics, 42[9] (2009), pp. 1270-1274.
Tong, F. M., Wang, C. Y., and Adhikari, S., "Axial buckling of multiwall carbon nanotubes with heterogeneous boundary conditions", Journal of Applied Physics, 105 (2009), pp. 094325:1-7.
Scarpa, F., Adhikari, S. and Phani, A. Srikanth, "Effective mechanical properties of single graphene sheets", Nanotechnology, 20[1-2] (2009), pp. 065709:1-11.

Invited Lectures

Complete list with downloadable slides
Uncertainty in Structural Dynamics: Analysis & Identification at the University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, April 2009.
Uncertainty Quantification in Structural Dynamics at the University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa, March 2009.
Computational methods in Structural Mechanics & Applications at the University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa, March 2009.
Shaped Modal Sensors for Uncertain Dynamical Systems at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, December 2008.
Uncertainty quantification in structural dynamics using random matrix theory at the Southampton University, Southampton, UK, November 2008.
Uncertainty Propagation in Complex Aero-mechanical Systems: A Random Matrix Approach at the University of Reading, Reading, UK, October 2008.
Uncertainty Quantification for Complex Aero-mechanical Systems at the, Calculating the Effects of Uncertainty in Advanced Structures Workshop, London, UK, May 2008.
Uncertainty Quantification in Structural Dynamics: A Random Matrix Approach at the, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, USA, August 2006.
Random Matrix Method for Stochastic Structural Mechanics at the, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, June 2006.
Probabilistic Structural Analysis Using Matrix Variate Distributions at the, Cambridge University Engineering Department, March 2006.
A short course on probabilistic structural dynamics at CISM International Center for Mechanical Sciences, Udine, Italy, June 2005.
Identification of Damping at the University of Catania, Catania, Italy, June 2005.

Editorial & Review Works

08/2009-Present: Editorial Board member of the International Journal of Mathematics in Engineering, Science and Aerospace (MESA).
03/2009-Present: Editorial Advisory Board member of the Journal of Sound and Vibration.
01/2009-Present: Editorial Board member of International Journal of Engineering Under Uncertainty: Hazards, Assessment and Mitigation.
10/2008-Present: Editorial Advisory Board member of The Open Numerical Methods Journal.
01/2008-Present: Editorial Advisory Board member of The Open Acoustics Journal.
01/2006-Present: Associate Editor of Shock and Vibration.
Reviewer for 54 academic journals, 14 conferences, 3 funding bodies and book reviewer for three publishers.