Ph.D. Student
Azhagu Devathai received her B.E. in Metallurgical Engineering from the Government College of Engineering, Salem, and her M.Tech. in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. She has prior research experience as a research fellow at the Advanced International Research Centre for Powder Metallurgy and New Materials, Chennai on a project focused on producing Strontium hexaferrite powders suitable for bonded magnets and as a research intern at General Electric (GE-GRC), India on the study focusing on Hydrogen Embrittlement of structural materials. Her prior research was in CALPHAD modeling and the structure-property relationship of additive-manufactured Copper and Nickel-based bimetallic components for space applications. She is currently working on Advanced sintering and densification processing of conventional and Additively Manufactured Soft Magnetic Ferrites for applications such as Power electronics.