Micro-Damage Evolution in Novel Polymer Composite Materials

Anish Niranjan Kulkarni was born in 1997 in Pune, India. He obtained his Bachelor’s (Hons) degree  (2019) in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, India. Following his bachelor’s studies, he was selected for the prestigious EU Erasmus Mundus scholarship to pursue a Joint European Master’s degree in Advanced Materials Science and Engineering. Since 2022, he has been a PhD student and Researcher at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Transport and Aeronautics (from 2022, Faculty of Civil and Mechanical Engineering) at Riga Technical University. During his doctoral studies, he has represented his research group at various international conferences and seminars and has been on exchange visits to Luleå University of Technology (Sweden) and the University of Girona (Spain). He currently works on various research projects related to the mechanics of polymer composite materials, notably hybrid textile composites and induction-cured thermoset composites.