Namas Chandra is the Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Director, Center for Injury Bio-mechanics, Materials, and Medicine at New Jersey Institute of Technology.
He held Elmer-Koch Professorship of Engineering and recent past Associate Dean for research and Graduate Studies at the College of Engineering at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln .
He is the Director of $5.8 M UNL-Army Center for Trauma Mechanics.
Chandra completed his PhD in mechanical engineering in 1986 at Texas A&M University.
From 1986 to 2006, he was at Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Florida State University.
In 2006, Chandra became the Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies at UNL.
He also served as Elmer E. Koch Professor of Engineering Mechanics at College of Engineering in University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
He finished his MS from University of Houston in 1983 and PhD from Texas A&M University in 1986.
In 2005, he won FSU’s ‘Outstanding Researcher’ award.Chandra’s research interests include materials science, mechanics of materials and structures, molecular dynamics, superplasticity, composites, and thermal properties of composites.He is the director of the Trauma Mechanics Research Initiative and the BioMechanics and Materials Laboratory at UNL.
His research concerns the mechanics of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and their effects on brain tissue.
Chandra’s study of traumatic brain injury (TBI) is primarily for the United States military, a major sponsor of the research initiative.
Director of CIBM3 with 29 years academic and 9 years of industrial experience; supervised 43 graduates, published 213 papers, obtained $23 Million with current level of $5M on brain injury.