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Dr Venkata Potluri

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Biography

Prasad Potluri started his career as a Design Engineer at Suzuki Motor Company's Indian subsidiary (Maruti) in 1984 and headed the suspension systems design group until 1990.  He obtained a first degree in Mechanical Engineering from VNIT (Nagpur) in 1982 and a Masters in Mechanical Design Engineering from IIT Bombay in 1984.  His Master's dissertation was in the area of spatial kinematics and Robotics.

In 1995,  Prasad was awarded a PhD in Mechanical Engineering (jointly with Textiles) from UMIST for his work on Robotic Testing and Large Deformation Mechanics of Flexible Materials. 

Prasad started his academic career as a Lecturer in 1994, promotd to Senior Lecturer in 2004 and subsequently promoted to a Reader in Textile Composites in 2007. 

In 2000, Prasad established 'Textile Composites Group' to focus his energy in this emerging area of research. Currently, he supervises 10 PhDs, 1 Post-Doc and 2 MPhils. He published over 100 papers in leading journals and International conference proceedings   

Memberships

  • Editorial Board 'Textile Research Journal'
  • EPSRC Peer Review College from 2003

Qualifications

BE, MTech, PhD(Manchester)

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