Rajiv Mishra

Dr. Mishra (Ph.D. in Metallurgy from University of Sheffield) is a University Distinguished Research Professor at University of North Texas. He serves as the Director of a recently launched Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Processes Institute (AMMPI) at UNT. He is also the UNT Site Director of the NSF I/UCRC for Friction Stir Processing and a Fellow of ASM International. He is a past-chair of the Structural Materials Division of TMS and served on the TMS Board of Directors (2013-16). He has authored/co-authored 312 papers in peer-reviewed journals and proceedings and is principal inventor of four U.S. patents. His current publication based h-index is 64 and his papers have been cited more than 21000 times. He has co-authored two books; (1) Friction Stir Welding and Processing, and (2) Metallurgy and Design of Alloys with Hierarchical Microstructures. He has edited or co-edited fifteen TMS conference proceedings. He serves on the editorial board of Materials Science and Engineering A, Science and Technology of Welding and Joining, and Materials Research Letters. He is the founding editor of a short book series on Friction Stir Welding and Processing published by Elsevier and has co-authored seven short books in this series.