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Profile
| Academic position | Full Professor |
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| Research fields | Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering,Mechanical Properties of Metallic Materials and their Microstructural Causes,Mechanics and Constructive Mechanical Engineering |
| Keywords | Acoustic Microscopy, Biological Cell Characterization, Elastic Properties, Ultrasonic Nondestructive Evaluation, Elastic Wave |
Current contact address
| Country | United States of America |
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| City | Tucson |
| Institution | University of Arizona |
| Institute | Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics |
| Homepage | www.u.arizona.edu/~tkundu/ |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Jürgen Bereiter-Hahn | Arbeitskreis Kinematic Cell Research Group, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main |
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| Dr. Christopher Blase | Arbeitskreis Kinematic Cell Research Group, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main |
| Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Grill | Abteilung Festkörperoptik (FKO), Universität Leipzig, Leipzig |
| Prof. Dr. Norbert Meyendorf | Fraunhofer-Institut für Keramische Technologien und Systeme (IKTS), Fraunhofer-Institut für Keramische Technologien und Systeme (IKTS), Berlin |
| Dr.-Ing. Frank Schubert | Fraunhofer-Institut für Keramische Technologien und Systeme (IKTS), Dresden |
| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/09/1989 |
Programme(s)
| 1988 | Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme |
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| 2002 | Humboldt Research Award Programme |
Nominator's project description
| Professor Kundu has made significant and original contributions in nondestructive testing techniques for material charaterization by ultrasonics and acoustic microscopy, elastic wave propagation in multilayered solids, faracture machenics, computational mechanics, gemechanics and numerical modeling. Application areas of his research include aerospace materials, civil and structural materials, geomaterials, electronic as well as biological meterials. His research at the University Frankfurt will focus on measurements of mechanical parameters of multilayered structures in biological cells and tissues using acoustic microscopy. |