Vikram Deshpande

Deshpande grew up in Dadar, Mumbai, studied at Bombay Scottish School in Mahim, and gained a B.Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology in 1994.{{cite news |last1=Mukherji |first1=Anahita |title=Young Mumbaikar set to be Cambridge professor |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/young-mumbaikar-set-to-be-cambridge-professor/articleshow/6640017.cms |access-date=7 March 2022 |work=Times of India |date=28 September 2010}} That year, he moved to Cambridge, UK to take an M.Phil. in engineering, initially working on transportation with David Cebon, and earning his Ph.D. in 1998.

Later, he became interested in materials and mechanics, including small-scale materials, and began a long collaboration with Norman Fleck on micro-architectured materials. After further research in the United States, he returned to Cambridge, became a fellow of Pembroke College in 1999, a lecturer in engineering in 2001, and a professor in 2010. He has been a visiting professor at Brown University and Università Campus Bio-Medico in Rome, on the faculty of University of California at Santa Barbara in the US, University of Eindhoven in the Netherlands.{{cite web |title=Professor Vikram Deshpande is awarded the 2020 Rodney Hill Prize in Solid Mechanics |url=http://www.eng.cam.ac.uk/news/professor-vikram-deshpande-awarded-2020-rodney-hill-prize-solid-mechanics |website=Department of Engineering |date=7 May 2020 |publisher=University of Cambridge |access-date=6 March 2022}}

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His achievements include the development of "metallic wood", which comprises nickel sheet with wood-like, nanoscale pores that make it as strong as titanium but four to five times lighter.{{cite news |title='Metallic wood' has the strength of titanium and the density of water |url=https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/01/190128125314.htm |access-date=6 March 2022 |work=Science Daily |date=28 January 2019}}{{cite journal |last1=Pikul |first1=J |last2=Özerinç |first2=S |last3=Zhang |first3=R |last4=Braun |first4=P |last5=Deshpande |first5=V |last6=King |first6=W |title=High strength metallic wood from nanostructured nickel inverse opal materials |journal=Scientific Reports |date=24 January 2019 |volume=9 |issue=1 |page=719 |doi=10.1038/s41598-018-36901-3 |pmid=30679615 |pmc=6345818 |bibcode=2019NatSR...9..719P}}

Deshpande has received multiple awards for his work, including the Warner T. Koiter Medal from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers 2022, William Prager Medal,{{cite web |title=Prager Medal |url=https://socengsci.org/prager-medal/ |website=Society of Engineering Science |access-date=7 March 2022}} 2022, the 2021 Gili Agostinelli Prize, the 2020 Rodney Hill Prize in Solid Mechanics, the 2018 Sir William Hopkins Prize in Mathematical and Physical Sciences, and the 2003 Philip Leverhulme Prize. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2020 in recognition of "significant contributions in fields ranging from the design of micro-architectured materials to modelling soft and active materials", "innovations [that] have helped define the modern frontiers of solid mechanics", and research that "has had a major impact in materials engineering".{{cite web |title=Fellow detail: Vikram Deshpande |url=https://royalsociety.org/people/Vikram-Deshpande-25344/ |publisher=The Royal Society |access-date=6 March 2022}} He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2023 for "seminal contributions to the mechanics of engineering materials".{{cite web |title=Professor Vikram Deshpande FREng FRS |url=https://raeng.org.uk/about-us/fellowship/new-fellows-2023/professor-vikram-deshpande-freng-frs |website=Royal Academy of Engineering |access-date=19 December 2023}}{{cite web |title=Royal Academy of Engineering announces new Fellows for 2023 |url=http://www.eng.cam.ac.uk/news/royal-academy-engineering-announces-new-fellows-2023 |website=University of Cambridge |access-date=19 December 2023 |date=20 September 2023}} He was elected a foreign member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2023 "for contributions to mechanics of microarchitected solids with applications to structures under extreme dynamic loading".{{cite web |title=Professor Vikram Deshpande

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• {{cite journal |last1=Deshpande |first1=V |last2=Fleck |first2=N |title=Isotropic constitutive models for metallic foams |journal=Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids |date=1 June 2000 |volume=48 |issue=6 |pages=1253–1283 |doi=10.1016/S0022-5096(99)00082-4 |bibcode=2000JMPSo..48.1253D |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022509699000824 |access-date=6 March 2022}}
• {{cite journal | last1 = Deshpande | first1 = V.S. | last2 = Ashby | first2 = M.F. | last3 = Fleck | first3 = N.A. | title = Foam topology: bending versus stretching dominated architectures | journal = Acta Materialia | date = April 2001 | volume = 49 | issue = 6 | pages = 1035–1040 | issn = 1359-6454 | doi = 10.1016/S1359-6454(00)00379-7 | pmid = | bibcode = 2001AcMat..49.1035D | url = https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1359645400003797| url-access = subscription }}
• {{cite journal |last1=Deshpande |first1=V |last2=Ashby |first2=M |last3=Fleck |first3=N |title=Effective properties of the octet-truss lattice material |journal=Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids |date=1 August 2001 |volume=49 |issue=8 |pages=1747–1769|doi=10.1016/S0022-5096(01)00010-2 |bibcode=2001JMPSo..49.1747D |s2cid=53347572 }}
• {{cite journal |last1=Fleck |first1=N |last2=Deshpande |first2=V |last3=Ashby |first3=M |title=Micro-architectured materials: past, present and future |journal=Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences |date=30 June 2010 |volume=466 |issue=2121 |pages=2495–2516 |doi=10.1098/rspa.2010.0215 |bibcode=2010RSPSA.466.2495F |s2cid=138092878 |url=https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rspa.2010.0215 |access-date=6 March 2022|url-access=subscription }}

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