Brajendra Mishra

Short Bio:

Brajendra Mishra is the Kenneth G. Merriam Chaired Professor and the Assoc. Director of Metals Processing Institute in Mechanical Engineering at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Dr. Mishra is the Co-Director of the National Science Foundation’s Industry/University Collaborative Research Center on Resource Recovery & Recycling. He is also a lead researcher in the US Dept. of Energy’s Critical Materials Institute – an innovative energy hub. Brajendra received his Bachelor of Technology [1981] degree in Metallurgical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Kharagpur, India and his M.S. [1983] and Ph.D. [1986] in Materials Science from the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. Dr. Mishra has over twenty five years of research experience in molten salt pyrometallurgy and electrochemistry and has many contributions to the application of these technologies to materials processing. Dr. Mishra has authored over 400 technical publications in refereed journals and conference proceedings. He holds ten patents and has authored/edited 20 books. Dr. Mishra is a Fellow of ASM (2001). Mishra received the Distinguished Service Award from the Minerals Metals & Materials Society (2010) and the highest award of Honorary Membership form the Indian Institute of Metals (2008). He is an Honorary Professor of the Kazakh Natl. Technical University in Almaty. Brajendra served as the 2006 President of The Mineral, Metals & Materials Society (TMS) of AIME and the 2011 President of Amer. Institute of Mining, Metallurgical & Petroleum Engineers. He received the Presidential Citation of AIME in 2015.