Dean Subra Suresh is the Vannevar Bush Professor of Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He holds joint faculty appointments in Materials Science and Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Biological Engineering, and Health Sciences and Technology at MIT, and served as head of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering from January 2000 to January 2006. He began his tenure as Dean of the School of Engineering in July 2007.
He received his bachelor of technology degree in first class with distinction from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, in 1977; his MS from Iowa State University in 1979; and his ScD from MIT in 1981. He also holds an honorary doctorate in engineering from Sweden's Royal Institute of Technology. Following postdoctoral research from 1981 to 1983 at the University of California at Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, he joined Brown University as an assistant professor of engineering in December 1983; he was promoted to full professor in July 1989. He joined MIT in 1993 as the R. P. Simmons Professor of Materials Science and Engineering.
Professor Suresh's current research focuses on experimental and computational studies of the mechanical responses of single biological cells and molecules and their implications for human health and diseases. His prior and ongoing work has also led to seminal contributions in the area of nano- and micro-scale mechanical properties of engineered materials.
He is the author of over 210 research articles in international journals, coeditor of five books, and coinventor on 14 US and international patents. More than 100 students, postdoctoral associates, and research scientists trained in his group occupy prominent positions in academe, industry, and government throughout the world. He has authored or coauthored three books: Fatigue of Materials, Fundamentals of Functionally Graded Materials, and Thin Film Materials.
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