Meet The Makers

Guest Professor, IIT Gandhinagar
George J. Bishop, III Professor of Ceramic and Materials Engineering, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Clemson University

PhD: Cornell University

Email: rbordia@clemson.edu -AT- iitgn.ac.in

Research Interests: Ceramics, energy conversion, energy storage, high temperature materials, composites

Prof Bordia’s research is at the intersection of materials and mechanics and is focused on fundamental and applied studies in the processing and properties of complex material systems for energy, environmental, and medical applications. Current emphasis is on ceramics, composites, multilayered, and porous material with research on: Ceramics for extreme environment; ceramics for energy conservation and storage; nano and micro structure control in ceramics; ceramic coatings, porous ceramics; and molecular precursor derived ceramics.

https://www.clemson.edu/cecas/departments/mse/people/faculty/bordia.html

Publications

Geng, Xiao, Yuzhe Hong, Jincheng Lei, Jianxing Ma, Jie Chen, Hai Xiao, Jianhua Tong, Rajendra K. Bordia, and Fei Peng. “Ultra‐fast, selective, non‐melting, laser sintering of alumina with anisotropic and size‐suppressed grains” Journal of the American Ceramic Society 104, no. 5 (2021): 1997-2006.

Peng, Yucheng, Ruslan Burtovyy, Rajendra K. Bordia, and Igor Luzinov. “Fabrication of Porous Carbon Films and Their Impact on Carbon/Polypropylene Interfacial Bonding.” Journal of Composites Science 5, no. 4 (2021): 108.

Maiti, Sanat Chandra, Quan Li, Fei Peng, and Rajendra K. Bordia. “Influence of TiO2 on the densification behaviour of Yb2O3.” Journal of the European Ceramic Society (2021).

Jamin, Christine, Apurv Dash, Nachiketa Mishra, Rajendra K. Bordia, and Olivier Guillon. “Constrained sintering of alumina micro-ring films on stiff and compliant substrates: Constriction or dilation?.” Acta Materialia 216 (2021): 117159.

Greenough, Michelle, Zeyu Zhao, Luiz G. Jacobsohn, Jianhua Tong, and Rajendra K. Bordia. “Low/intermediate temperature pyrolyzed polysiloxane derived ceramics with increased carbon for electrical applications.” Journal of the European Ceramic Society 41, no. 12 (2021): 5882-5889.

Geng, Xiao, Jianan Tang, Bridget Sheridan, Siddhartha Sarkar, Jianhua Tong, Hai Xiao, Dongsheng Li, Rajendra K. Bordia, and Fei Peng. “Ultra-Fast Laser Fabrication of Alumina Micro-Sample Array and High-Throughput Characterization of Microstructure and Hardness.” Crystals 11, no. 8 (2021): 890.

Li, Quan, Chen-Chih Tsai, Michael Scheffler, Shiv Joshi, and Rajendra K. Bordia. “Macrostructural design of highly porous SiOC ceramic foams by preceramic polymer viscosity tailoring.” Ceramics International (2021).

Gangadhar, Jella, Ankur Maheshwari, Rajendra K. Bordia, CN Shyam Kumar, Christian Kubel, and Ravindran Sujith. “Role of carbon on the thermal and electrical properties of graphene-enriched silicon oxycarbides.” Ceramics International 46, no. 18 (2020): 28156-28164.

Azami-Ghadkolai, Milad, Mehrdad Yousefi, Srikanth Allu, Stephen Creager, and Rajendra K. Bordia. “Effect of isotropic and anisotropic porous microstructure on electrochemical performance of Li ion battery cathodes: An experimental and computational study.” Journal of Power Sources 474 (2020): 228490.

Hong, Yuzhe, Zhaoxi Chen, Jincheng Lei, Zhao Zhang, Hai Xiao, Konstantin G. Kornev, Rajendra K. Bordia, Jianhua Tong, and Fei Peng. “Direct inkjet printing of mullite nano-ribbons from the sol–gel precursor.” Journal of Sol-Gel Science and Technology 95 (2020): 66-76.

Lei, Jincheng, Jie Chen, Yuzhe Hong, Qi Zhang, Qiushi Chen, Jianhua Tong, Hai Xiao, Fei Peng, and Rajendra K. Bordia. “The effect of laser sintering on the microstructure, relative density, and cracking of sol‐gel–derived silica thin films.” Journal of the American Ceramic Society 103, no. 1 (2020): 70-81.

Projects

Antimicrobial Coating of Dental Implants; Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC

High-Speed Thermogravimetry Equipped with Mass Spectrometry for Thermodynamic and Kinetic Study of Nuclear Energy Materials; US Department of Energy

Integrated TBC/EBC for SiC Fiber Reinforced SiC matrix Composites for Next Generation Gas Turbines; US Department of Energy

LSAMP Bridge to Doctorate: Clemson University; US National Science Foundation

High Strength, Encapsulated, Commercially Useful Components and Particles made from Coal Combustion Residuals; Semplastics (flow through primary sponsor: US Department of Energy)

Materials Assembly and Design Excellence in South Carolina; US National Science Foundation

High Temperature Solid State Batteries; Mississippi State University (flow through primary sponsor: US Army)

Collaborative Research: DMREF: Accelerating the Adoption of Sintering-Assisted Additive Manufacturing Using Integrated Experiments, Theory, Simulation and Data Science; US National Science Foundation

Assistant Professor

B.Sc (Zoology): Saurashtra University, Gujarat, 1994
M.Sc (Wildlife Sciences): Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun, 2001
M.Sc (Anthropology): University College London, 2009
Ph.D (Anthropology): National University of Singapore, 2015

Email: a.ambika@iitgn.ac.in

Research Interests: Wildlife Conservation, Indigenous peoples, Northeast India, Social and Environmental Justice, Himalayan Borderlands

Prof Aiyadurai is interested in the human dimensions of wildlife conservation, with particular interest in understanding human-animal relations and community-based conservation. Her ongoing and long-term research aims are to understand how local and global forces shape the human-animal relations. Major focus of research is to explore alternate ways of understanding nature and nature conservation, especially, focusing on indigenous knowledge systems.

Publications

Books/ book chapters: 

Aiyadurai, A.; Chattopadhyay, A. and Choksi, N. (eds.), Ecological Entanglements: Affect, Embodiment and Ethics of Care, Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan, Mar. 2023,  ISBN: 9789354422591.

Aiyadurai, A.; Chattopadhyay, A. and Choksi, N., “Introduction”, in  Ecological Entanglements: Affect, Embodiment and Ethics of Care, Hyderabad: Orient BlackSwan, Mar. 2023, ISBN: 9789354422591.

Delley, R. and Aiyadurai, A., “Eno: Eco-spiritual Water Climes of Dibang Valley, Arunachal Pradesh”, Storying Multipolar Climes of the Himalaya, Andes and Arctic Anthropocenic Climate and Shapeshifting Watery Lifeworlds (eds. Dan S. Yu & J. Wouters), Routledge, Mar. 2023.

Aiyadurai, A., “Review of the book Animal Intimacies: Interspecies Relatedness in India’s Central Himalayas” by R. Govindrajan, Conservation & Society, DOI: 10.4103/cs.cs_19_138, Jan. 2020.

Aiyadurai, A., “Review of the book Religion and Ecological Sustainability in China” by James Miller, Dan Smyer Yu and Peter van der Veer, Journal of Chinese Religions, vol. 47, no. 2, pp. 230-233, Nov. 2019.

Aiyadurai, A., “Hunting in Northeast India and the challenges of implementing the wildlife protection act”, Nature conservation in the new economy: people, wildlife and the law in India, New Delhi, Orient BlackSwan, pp. 31-54, 2019, ISBN: 9789352876136.

Aiyadurai, A.; Idu Mishmis’ Social Worlds: Animals, Humans and Spirits in Change and continuity among tribes: The Idu Mishmis of Arunachal Pradesh (eds. T. Mene and S. Chaudhuri); Mittal Publications, 2019.

Aiyadurai, A. and Velho, N., “The last hunters of Arunachal Pradesh: the past and present of wildlife hunting in North-east India”, Conservation from the margins, Orient BlackSwan, June 2018, ISBN: 9789352872824.

Journal papers:

Aiyadurai, A. and Patil, Y., “How guns, cameras, binoculars and smartphones changed bird-watching”, TheWire.in, Mar. 31, 2022.

Aiyadurai, A.; Rangan, H.; Baviskar, A.; Narain, S.; Pande, V., “Review of the book The Chipko movement: a people’s history by S. Pathak and Manisha Chaudhary”, Conservation & Society, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 47-53, Mar. 2022.

Aiyadurai, A. and Ingole, P., “Invisibility of caste in environmental studies”, Indian Express, Nov. 29, 2021.

Banerjee, S.; Aiyadurai, A., “Everyday conservation: a study of actors and processes in an elephant conservation project in Assam, India”, Human Dimensions of Wildlife, DOI: 10.1080/10871209.2021.1970861, Sep. 2021.

Aiyadurai, A. and Banerjee, S., “Understanding borderlands through elephant corridors in the Yunnan–Myanmar–Bengal landscape”, in Yunnan–Burma–Bengal corridor geographies, DOI: 10.4324/9781003094364-7, London: Routledge India, pp. 85-104, Sep. 2021, ISBN: 9780367556228.

Aiyadurai, A., “Dilemmas of wildlife research in Arunachal”, Seminar (Special Issue: Future Environmentalisms), vol. 744, pp. 19-23, Aug. 2021.

Aiyadurai, A., “The real sherni: how Avni put the spotlight on the complex nature of tiger conservation in India”, Scroll.in, July 5, 2021.

Aiyadurai, A., “Tigers are Our Brothers: Anthropology of Wildlife Conservation in Northeast India”,  India: Oxford University Press, June 2021, ISBN: 9780190129101.

Aiyadurai, A., “Enjoy Enjaami: a call for ecological and social justice”, Countercurrents.org, Mar. 27, 2021.

Aiyadurai, A. and Pandya, M., “Tales from Dibang Valley: why are the akru’s horns curved?”, Current Conservation, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 15-19, 2021.

Aiyadurai, A., “The implications of legal personhood to nonhumans: insights from India’s tiger conservation”, ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, DOI: 10.1093/isle/isaa061, Sep. 2020.

Aiyadurai, A., “Voices from Dibang Valley: Idu Mishmi, wildlife biologists and a wildlife sanctuary”, Current Conservation, vol. 14, no. 1, Sep. 2020.

Nicolaisen, J.; Aiyadurai, A. and Duara, P., “Trans-species listening and the rights of nature: legal persons beyond the human: introduction to special cluster in ISLE 27.3”, ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, DOI: 10.1093/isle/isaa058, Aug. 2020.

Aiyadurai, A. and Banerjee, S., “Bird conservation from obscurity to popularity: a case study of two bird species from Northeast India”, GeoJournal, 112, DOI 10.1007/s10708-019-09999, Mar. 2019.

Aiyadurai, A., “The Multiple Meanings of Nature Conservation – Insights from Dibang Valley, Arunachal Pradesh”, Economic and Political Weekly, 53 (39): 37-44, 2019. 

Aiyadurai, Ambika, “The multiple meanings of nature conservation: insights from Dibang Valley, Arunachal Pradesh”, Economic and Political Weekly, vol. 53, no. 39, pp. 37-44, Sep. 2018.

Popular Articles:

Aiyadurai, A., “Adornment in the wild: Bone ornaments of the Idu Mishmi. Ornaments”, 43 (3): 56-59, 2023.

Aiyadurai, A., “Even after a century, water is still the marker of India’s caste society”, TheWire.in, Aug. 23, 2022.

Papers presented at conferences:

Aiyadurai, A., “Tribes, Environment and the State: Contemporary Research from India’s Northeast”, jointly organized by Humanities and Social Sciences, IITGN and Department of Anthropology, Rajiv Gandhi University, Arunachal Pradesh, funded by Anthropological Survey of India, ICSSR-New Delhi & Shillong, Mar. 6-7, 2023.

Ameh-anji and Ili-amra: Boar hunting and pig sacrifice among the Idu Mishmis’ by Prof Ambika Aiyadurai in a workshop “What is hunting? Anthropological perspectives of Boar hunting” at the Institute of Ethnology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic; Nov. 27-30, 2022.

Aiyadurai, A., “Multispecies Ethnography”, presented at Environmental Humanities workshop, Ooty (Tamil Nadu), organised by the University of Pennsylvania and Dakshin Foundation, May 16-17, 2019.

Aiyadurai, A., “Multiple Ontologies of Wildlife Conservation in India”, presented at British Association for South Asian Studies  (BASAS), Durham University, UK, Apr. 3-5, 2019.

Aiyadurai, A., “Hunting in Northeast India and the challenges of implementing Wildlife Protection Act”, Department of Biological Sciences, Ahmedabad University, Mar. 5, 2019.

Aiyadurai, A., “Understanding the social world of the Mishmis using Multispecies Ethnography”, presented at Locating Northeast India: Human Mobility, Resource Flows, and Spatial Linkages. Department of Sociology, University of Tezpur, Assam. Jan. 9-12, 2019.

Aiyadurai, A., “Can tigers be our brothers?: Changing human-animal relations in the Mishmi Hills, Northeast India”, presented at Trans-species Listening and Rights of Nature: Legal persons beyond the Human, Duke Global Asia Initiative and Duke Nichols School of the Environment, Durham, US, Oct. 5, 2018.

Aiyadurai, A., “Why there is a rise in Birdwatching in India”, presented at AAS-in-Asia, Ashoka University and Association for Asian Studies, New Delhi, July 5-8, 2018.

Aiyadurai, A., “Caste and nature: Dalits and Indian environmental politics” by Mukul Sharma,  Seminar, 704; Apr. 2018.

Aiyadurai, A.; Li, Y. and Banerjee, S., “Wildlife conservation and the role of local communities: perspectives from India and China”, in the Yunnan-Burma-Bengal Corridor: Process Geographies in the Making of Modern Asia, Yunnan Minzu University, China, Apr. 17-19, 2018.

Aiyadurai, A., “Introduction to Social Science Research in Conservation” for wildlife biology students, Organized by Society for Conservation Biology (SCB) at Amity Institute of Wildlife and Forestry, Noida, Mar. 18-19, 2018.

Aiyadurai, A, “Human-Animal relations: A view from the Mishmi hills”, Seminar, #702, issue: 1-8, Feb. 2018.

Projects 

History, science & technology of wildlife hunting and trapping in Arunachal Pradesh; Indian National Science Academy 

Mangroves stories in Gujarat; Social Science Research Council 

Field Assistants in Wildlife Research and Conservation: Case studies from Arunachal Pradesh; National Tiger Conservation Agency