Organizing Committee Member
Bharat Bhushan
Director
Nanoprobe Laboratory for Bio- & Nanotechnology and Biomimetics
USA
Biography
Dr. Bharat Bhushan is an Ohio Eminent Scholar and The Howard D. Winbigler Professor in the College of Engineering, and the Director of the Nanoprobe Laboratory for Bio- & Nanotechnology and Biomimetics (NLB2) and affiliated faculty in John Glenn College of Public Affairs at the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. In 2013-14, he served as an ASME/AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow, House Committee on Science, Space & Technology, United States Congress, Washington, DC. He holds two M.S., a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering/mechanics, an MBA, and two honorary and two semi-honorary doctorates. His research interests include fundamental studies with a focus on scanning probe techniques in the interdisciplinary areas of bio/Nano tribology, bio/nanomechanics and bio/nanomaterials characterization and applications to bio/nanotechnology, and biomimetic. He has authored 8 scientific books, 90+ handbook chapters, 800+ scientific papers (Goggle Scholar h-index–105+; Web of Science h-index–80+; ISI Highly Cited Researcher in Materials Science since 2007 and in Biology and Biochemistry since 2013; ISI Top 5% Cited Authors for Journals in Chemistry since 2011), and 60+ scientific reports.https://nlbb.engineering.osu.edu/
Research Area
Fundamental studies in the interdisciplinary areas of bio/nanotribology/nanomechanics and nanomaterials characterization in bio/nanotechnology and biomimetics with a focus on scanning probe techniques.