Atul Chokshi

[1] He is known for his studies on high temperature deformation and failure of ceramic materials[2] and is an elected fellow of all the three major Indian science academies viz.

[7][note 1] Atul Chokshi, born on 24 March 1958, gained his bachelor's degree (BTech) in metallurgical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras in 1980 and went to the US for higher studies.

[5] That year, he moved to the University of California, San Diego to take up the position of a faculty and served the university until 1994 when he returned to India to join the Indian Institute of Science as an associate professor at the Department of Materials Engineering where he holds the position of a professor.

[12][note 2] Chokshi was one of the scientists who reported the strengthening in nanometals and contributed to the establishment of a creep and tensile testing laboratory for examining superplasticity in ceramics at the University of California, San Diego.

[5] He was also instrumental in setting up a similar laboratory at the Indian Institute of Science with facilities for electro sinter forging for ceramics and electrophoretic deposition for nanocrystalline metals.