Dr. Bharat Bhushan is an academy professor (San Jose, California), and has served as an Ohio Eminent Scholar and Howard D. Winbigler Professor, and as director of the Nanoprobe Laboratory for Bio/Nanotechnology and Biomimetics at Ohio State University, Ohio. From 2013 to 2014, he served as an ASME/AAAS science and technology policy fellow of the U.S. Congress. He holds a BS, two MS degrees, and a PhD in mechanical engineering, as well as an MBA and five honorary doctorates, a total of 10 college degrees. His research interests include fundamental studies in the interdisciplinary areas of bio/nanotribology/nanomechanics, nanomaterials characterization, scanning probe techniques, magnetic storage, bio/nanotechnology, nanomanufacturing, bioinspired liquid repellency, self-cleaning, anti-icing, anti-fouling, and water harvesting, science and technology policy.
Dr. Bhushan has authored 11 scientific books, over 100 handbook chapters, and over 900 scientific papers. He is one of the 1,248 highly cited researchers in all fields on Google Scholar, with an h-index of over 150 and with over 115,000 citations; Scopus’s one of 401 scientists for career-long citation impact across all fields out of over eight million scientists from around world; the fourth highly cited researcher in mechanical engineering; 149th most cited researcher in materials science; and an ISI highly cited researcher in materials science and in the cross-field category. He has made over 400 invited presentations, including over 300 keynote/plenary addresses at major international conferences across six continents. In 2019, he also delivered a TEDx lecture.
Dr. Bhushan is the recipient of numerous awards and international fellowships, and is a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts and the International Academy of Engineering (Russia). He has worked for various industrial research labs, including Mechanical Technology Inc., SKF, and the IBM Almaden Research Center. He is an alum of BITS, Pilani, and a recipient of the 2015 BITS (Pilani) Distinguished Alumnus Award. He can be contacted via: (bhushan100@outlook.com); (linkedin.com/in/dr-bharat-bhushan-48011871); and (facebook.com/bhushanb100).