Vikram Kaushik
Advanced Materials & Process Engineering
Leading a multi-million-dollar advanced materials research portfolio, with a background spanning process engineering, polymer materials science, and programme governance across three continents.
Portfolio Leadership
End-to-end ownership of an advanced materials research portfolio spanning composites, functional coatings, structural materials, and metamaterials — including risk, budget, and quality assurance across 10+ stakeholder teams.
Technical Foundation
M.Sc. in Polymer Material Science from Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, with research at Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft — a technical grounding built on returning to fundamentals when the work demanded it.
Beyond Engineering
Published researcher in structural health monitoring, and author of two books spanning leadership and fiction — writing shaped by the same interest in what actually happens beneath the surface of any system.
Why materials don't always do what the datasheet says
I write about the gap between what materials, simulations, and specifications promise, and what actually happens under real conditions — failure mechanisms, simulation limitations, and the physics that datasheets leave out.
Contact
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