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Subra Suresh
Subra Suresh
	File:Subra-Suresh-portrait.jpg
Director of the National Science Foundation
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; October 18, 2010
President	Barack Obama
Preceded by	Arden Bement
Personal details
Born	May 30, 1956; Mumbai, India
Alma mater	Indian Institute of Technology, Madras; Iowa State University; Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Dr. Subra Suresh is the Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF),^[1] a US federal government agency that supports fundamental (basic) research across all disciplines of science and engineering and related education. A distinguished engineer and scientist, Suresh is on leave from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he was Dean of Engineering and the Vannevar Bush Professor of Engineering.

In June 2010, Suresh was nominated by US President Barack Obama^[2]^[3] to be the Director of the National Science Foundation and was unanimously confirmed by the US Senate in September 2010.^[4] As director, he leads an independent federal agency that has an annual (US)$7-billion budget; its programs and initiatives are intended to keep the United States at the forefront of science and engineering, empower future generations of scientists and engineers, and foster economic growth and innovation. NSF funds discovery, learning, innovation, and research infrastructure to boost US leadership in all aspects of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics research and education. In 2011, NSF supported more than 200,000 individuals in 1,800 institutions in every state in the United States and engaged more than 300,000 scientists, engineers, and educators in its peer review process.^[5]

Leadership Roles

NSF

Since joining NSF, Suresh has established several new initiatives including, among others, INSPIRE (Integrative NSF Support Promoting Interdisciplinary Research and Education); PEER (Partnerships for Enhanced Engagement in Research, in collaboration with the United States Agency for International Development [USAID]); SAVI (Science Across Virtual Institutes); the NSF Career-Life Balance Initiative; and the NSF Innovation Corps (I-Corps).^[6]

Suresh is a member of the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC), a cabinet-level council comprising federal agency heads and cabinet secretaries. He also co-chairs the NSTC Committee on Science and the Committee on STEM (Science, Techology, Engineering and Mathematics) Education.

In response to an invitation from the White House, and with support from the US Department of State, NSF will host an international summit to begin to develop shared global principles and procedures to promote high standards in scientific merit review. This Merit Review Summit will convene in Washington, DC, in May 2012.^[7]

MIT

Prior to assuming his position as director of NSF, Suresh had been MIT's Dean of Engineering. Suresh began his tenure as dean in July 2007^[8] and had held MIT faculty appointments in Materials Science and Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Biological Engineering, and Health Sciences and Technology.

Suresh headed MIT’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering, and his experimental research focuses on modeling the mechanical properties of structural and functional materials, innovations in materials design and characterization, and discoveries of possible connections between cellular nanomechanical processes and human disease states. Some of this work has spawned new fields in the fertile inderdisciplinary intersections between traditional disciplines in engineering, physical sciences, life sciences, and medicine. More than 100 students, postdoctoral fellows, and visiting scholars have been members of his research group, and many of them now occupy prominent positions in academia, industry, and government worldwide.

In his leadership roles at MIT, Suresh helped create new state-of-the-art laboratories, the MIT Transportation Initiative, and the Center for Computational Engineering; led MIT’s efforts in establishing the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) Center; and oversaw the recruitment of a record number of women faculty in engineering.^[9]

Brown University

Suresh joined Brown University in December 1983 as Assistant Professor of Engineering and was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in July 1986 and to Professor in July 1989. In 1985, he was selected to receive the White House Presidential Young Investigator Award administered by the National Science Foundation. Prior to and during his tenure at Brown University, Suresh received many other honors including: The Hardy Gold Medal “for exceptional promise of a successful career in the broad field of metallurgy by a metallurgist under the age of 30,” and the 1985 Matthewson Gold Medal from The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS) for the best paper published in "Metallurgical Transactions", and the 1992 Ross Coffin Purdy Award from the American Ceramic Society for the best paper published in the Journal of the American Ceramic Society during 1990. In 1991, he authored Fatigue of Materials, a book published by Cambridge University Press and that has remained a classic in the field for two decades. It has been adapted as a textbook or a reference book by thousands of students and scientists and, according to Google Scholar, has been translated into Chinese and Japanese and has been cited more than 2,400 times.

Research

Publications, Patents

Suresh is the author or co-author of more than 240 research articles in international journals, co-editor of five books, and co-inventor on 22 US and international patent applications. He has authored or co-authored three widely used material science books: Fatigue of Materials, Fundamentals of Functionally Graded Materials, and Thin Film Materials. He is one of the most-cited scientists in materials science, according to Thomson Reuters Institute for Scientific Information. In 2011, Science Watch/Thomson Reuters selected Suresh as one of the top-100 scientists for the decade 2000-2010 in its world-wide ranking of the field of Materials Science.^[10]

Honors

In 2011, Suresh received the Padma Shri award, one of the highest civilian honors in India.^[11] Other honors include the 2006 Acta Materialia Gold Medal; the 2007 European Materials Medal, the highest honor conferred by the Federation of European Materials Societies (he was the first scientist based outside Europe to receive this medal); the 2008 Eringen Medal of the Society of Engineering Science; the 2011 General President’s Gold Medal from the Indian National Science Congress; the 2011 Nadai Medal from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers; and the 2012 R.F. Mehl Award from The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society. Suresh has been awarded five honorary doctorate degrees. In 2006, Technology Review magazine selected his work on nanobiomechanics as one of the top-10 emerging technologies that "will have a significant impact on business, medicine or culture."

Suresh has been elected to the US National Academy of Engineering; the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Spanish Royal Academy of Engineering; German National Academy of Sciences; Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences; Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS) in Trieste, Italy; German Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina); and Indian National Academy of Engineering.

He is an honorary fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences (Bangalore) and an honorary member of the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences.

Suresh has been elected a fellow or honorary fellow by all major materials societies in the United States and India, including the Materials Research Society, the American Society for Materials International; The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society; the American Society of Mechanical Engineers; the American Ceramic Society; the Indian Institute of Metals; and the Materials Research Society of India.

Education

Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai (BTech) May 1977
Iowa State University (MS) May 1979
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (ScD) August 1981

References

^ Hand, E. (2011). "Merit comes first: National Science Foundation director Subra Suresh reveals how his agency is coping with a grim fiscal outlook". Nature. 477 (7364): 263. doi:10.1038/477263a. PMID 21921894.
^ Hand, E. (2010). "Engineer Set to Run NSF: MIT's Subra Suresh Poised to Take Top Job". Nature. 465 (673): 673. doi:10.1038/465673a. PMID 20535171. Retrieved March 23, 2012. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)CS1 maint: date and year (link)
^ Mervis, Jeffrey (June 11). "Obama's Nominee to Lead NSF Lauded for Science and Management Skills". Science. 328 (5984): 1340–1341. doi:10.1126/science.328.5984.1340-a. PMID 20538922. Retrieved April 9, 2012. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |date= and |year= / |date= mismatch (help)
^ Jones, R.M. (2010). "Senate Confirms Subra Suresh as National Science Foundation Director". FYI: The AIP Bulletin of Science Policy News (103). Retrieved March 23, 2012.
^ National Science Foundation. "NSF Fact Sheet". National Science Foundation. Retrieved April 2, 2012.
^ Morrissey, Susan (January 23). "Subra Suresh". Chemical & Engineering News. 90 (4): 9–12. doi:10.1021/cen-09004-cover. Retrieved April 2, 2012. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |date= and |year= / |date= mismatch (help)
^ Suresh, Subra (August 12). "Moving Toward Global Science". Science. 333 (6044): 802. doi:10.1126/science.1210025. PMID 21835985. Retrieved April 2, 2012. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |date= and |year= / |date= mismatch (help)
^ "Suresh Is New Dean of Engineering". MIT News. June 14, 2007.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
^ MIT. "Subra Suresh to head National Science Foundation". MIT. Retrieved April 9, 2012.
^ Thomson Reuters. "Top 100 Materials Scientists". Science Watch. Thomson Reuters. Retrieved April 12, 2012. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)
^ "P Rama Rao Gets Padma Vibhushan; Padma Shri for Subra Suresh". The Times of India - Times Now. January 25, 2011. Retrieved March 23, 2012.

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Political offices
Preceded by Arden Bement	Director of the National Science Foundation 2010–present	Incumbent

Category:American people of Indian descent Category:Indian Institute of Technology Madras alumni Category:Iowa State University alumni Category:Living people Category:Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni Category:Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty Category:National Science Foundation Category:Recipients of the Padma Shri

[nsf-1] Hand, E. (2011). "Merit comes first: National Science Foundation director Subra Suresh reveals how his agency is coping with a grim fiscal outlook". Nature. 477 (7364): 263. doi:10.1038/477263a. PMID 21921894.

[2] Hand, E. (2010). "Engineer Set to Run NSF: MIT's Subra Suresh Poised to Take Top Job". Nature. 465 (673): 673. doi:10.1038/465673a. PMID 20535171. Retrieved March 23, 2012. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)CS1 maint: date and year (link)

[Science_magazine_a-3] Mervis, Jeffrey (June 11). "Obama's Nominee to Lead NSF Lauded for Science and Management Skills". Science. 328 (5984): 1340–1341. doi:10.1126/science.328.5984.1340-a. PMID 20538922. Retrieved April 9, 2012. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |date= and |year= / |date= mismatch (help)

[American_Institute_of_Physics-4] Jones, R.M. (2010). "Senate Confirms Subra Suresh as National Science Foundation Director". FYI: The AIP Bulletin of Science Policy News (103). Retrieved March 23, 2012.

[NSF_Fact_Sheet-5] National Science Foundation. "NSF Fact Sheet". National Science Foundation. Retrieved April 2, 2012.

[C&E_News-6] Morrissey, Susan (January 23). "Subra Suresh". Chemical & Engineering News. 90 (4): 9–12. doi:10.1021/cen-09004-cover. Retrieved April 2, 2012. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |date= and |year= / |date= mismatch (help)

[Science_magazine_b-7] Suresh, Subra (August 12). "Moving Toward Global Science". Science. 333 (6044): 802. doi:10.1126/science.1210025. PMID 21835985. Retrieved April 2, 2012. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |date= and |year= / |date= mismatch (help)

[8] "Suresh Is New Dean of Engineering". MIT News. June 14, 2007.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)

[MIT_News_Office-9] MIT. "Subra Suresh to head National Science Foundation". MIT. Retrieved April 9, 2012.

[10] Thomson Reuters. "Top 100 Materials Scientists". Science Watch. Thomson Reuters. Retrieved April 12, 2012. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)

[Times_Now-11] "P Rama Rao Gets Padma Vibhushan; Padma Shri for Subra Suresh". The Times of India - Times Now. January 25, 2011. Retrieved March 23, 2012.

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