Siddartha (Sid) Pathak is a Professor at Iowa State University and serves as the Chair for the CINT User Executive Committee. Sid leads a research group interested in quantitative understanding of material behavior at lower (sub-micrometer) length scales under extremes of temperature, strain rate and damage (e.g. irradiation).
Expertise
- Nano-mechanics, small scale mechanics
- Mechanistic design of multi-layered nanocomposites:
- Materials under extreme environments
- Physical metallurgy
- Shape memory alloys
- Establishing processing-microstructure evolution linkages in polycrystalline metals
- Solidification in micro-gravity
- Biomechanics of hierarchically structured biomaterials (enamel, bone)
Affiliation
Sid Pathak Research Group (Iowa State University
Education
PhD, Materials Science and Engineering, Drexel University
BS, Metallurgical Engineering, National Institute of Technology
Awards
- Award for Early Achievement in Research, Iowa State University College of Engineering, 2025
- NSF CAREER Award, National Science Foundation, 2024
- NSF EPSCoR Research Fellow, National Science Foundation, 2020
- DARPA Young Faculty Award, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, 2019
- Top Researchers (Top Researcher Portrait Project), University of Nevada Reno, 2019
- TMS MPMD Young Leaders Professional Development Award, The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society, 2017
- Body Armor Challenge Phase I Winner / Phase II Finalist, National Institute of Justice, 2012–2013
- Director’s Postdoctoral Fellow, Los Alamos National Laboratory, 2012
- W.M. Keck Institute for Space Studies Prized Postdoctoral Fellow in Materials Science, California Institute of Technology, 2010
Service
- Incoming Chair, CINT Users Executive Committee, Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, 2020
