Prathima Nalam

PhD

Associate Professor

Tribology; soft mechanics; surface and interfacial forces; atomic force microscopy

Buffalo NY, 14260

Phone: (716) 645-9193

PhD at ETH, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Department of Materials, Laboratory for Surface Science and Technology (Dr. Sc. ETH Zurich), 2012
MSc, ETH, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Department of Materials, Zurich, Specialization in Nano Science and Technology (M Sc. ETH Zurich), 2007
B. Tech., Department of Mechanical Engineering, Gayatri Vidya Parishad College of Engineering (JNTU), Visakhapatnam, India, 2002

Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA (2015-2016).
NBIC Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania, USA (2013-2015).
SNSF Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania, USA (2012-2013).
Research Assistant, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, India (2002 - 2005).