A S Khanna
IIT Bombay, India
Biography
A S Khanna is Professor at Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India with responsibility for teaching, research and consultancy in the field of corrosion, coatings, surface engineering and corrosion management. Prior to joining IIT Bombay in 1991, he worked in Atomic Energy and carried out R & D work at several International Labs/universities/Institutions, including Forschungszentrum Juelich (as Humboldt Fellow), Oslo University (Royal Norwegian Fellow), University de Provence, Marseille France and IHI Heavy Industry, Japan ( Fellow Japan Key Centre). Notable is his 23 years as Professor for IIT Bombay. He has guided 22 Ph.D’s and more than hundred Masters and Bachelors’ projects. He has published more than 275 papers in various National and International Journals. He is widely travelled and participated in umpteen number of conferences and meetings. He has written two books and edited 4 books. One of the book is High Performance Coatings, Woodhead publications, U.K. His professional interests focus on Coatings, Industrial corrosion prevention, surface engineering, high temperature materials. His current projects include development of smart coatings and nano-technology for enhancing paint coatings, development of grapheme and its applications in protective coatings. He is consultant / Advisor to many oil & Gas industries such as ONGC, GAIL, Reliance. In addition, he serves as Chairman for SSPC India, and is a member of NACE and ASM. He was awarded NACE Fellow in 2002 and ASM Fellow in 2005, for his contributions to the work in corrosion and coatings.
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