Subra Suresh, ScDPresident and Distinguished University Professor, Nanyang Technological University, 21st Century Professor of Mechanics in Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh
Subra Suresh is President and Distinguished University Professor at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and the 21st Century Professor of Mechanics in Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh Medical School. He has previously served as: Dean of MIT’s School of Engineering and Vannevar Bush Professor of Engineering; Director of the National Science Foundation, a position to which he was nominated by the United States President and unanimously confirmed by the US Senate; and President of Carnegie Mellon University. President Suresh is an elected member of all three branches of the US National Academies – Engineering, Sciences, and Medicine – as well as the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the National Academy of Inventors. He has been awarded 15 honorary doctorate degrees from institutions in the USA, UK, China, India, Sweden, Spain, Switzerland and Russia. He has authored three books, 300 research articles and 25 patents, and has co-founded a technology startup. He has been widely recognized for his research into the properties of engineered and biological materials and their implications for human diseases. His recent honors include: the 2015 Industrial Research Institute Medal; the 2013 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science; the 2012 Timoshenko Medal and the 2011 Nadai Medal of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers; the 2011 Padma Shri award, one of the highest civilian honors from the President of India; and the 2007 Gold Medal of the Federation of European Materials Societies. He is an independent Director of the Board of HP Inc. in Palo Alto, CA; a Senior Advisor to Temasek International Pte Ltd., Singapore; an Advisor to the Chairman of Reliance Industries Ltd., India; and a member of the Science, Technology and Innovation Council of Siemens AG, Germany.
Subra Suresh is President and Distinguished University Professor at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and the 21st Century Professor of Mechanics in Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh Medical School. He has previously served as: Dean of MIT’s School of Engineering and Vannevar Bush Professor of Engineering; Director of the National Science Foundation, a position to which he was nominated by the United States President and unanimously confirmed by the US Senate; and President of Carnegie Mellon University. President Suresh is an elected member of all three branches of the US National Academies – Engineering, Sciences, and Medicine – as well as the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the National Academy of Inventors. He has been awarded 15 honorary doctorate degrees from institutions in the USA, UK, China, India, Sweden, Spain, Switzerland and Russia. He has authored three books, 300 research articles and 25 patents, and has co-founded a technology startup. He has been widely recognized for his research into the properties of engineered and biological materials and their implications for human diseases. His recent honors include: the 2015 Industrial Research Institute Medal; the 2013 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science; the 2012 Timoshenko Medal and the 2011 Nadai Medal of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers; the 2011 Padma Shri award, one of the highest civilian honors from the President of India; and the 2007 Gold Medal of the Federation of European Materials Societies. He is an independent Director of the Board of HP Inc. in Palo Alto, CA; a Senior Advisor to Temasek International Pte Ltd., Singapore; an Advisor to the Chairman of Reliance Industries Ltd., India; and a member of the Science, Technology and Innovation Council of Siemens AG, Germany.