Date: July 2, 2026

Title of the report: How to put a paper together

Reporting time: Thursday, July 9, 2026, 10: 00-12: 00 am.

Informant: Upad Rasta Ramamurty (President's Chair Professor, School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore).

Address: Room 303, Building 38, Wushan Campus, South China University of Technology

Organizer: School of Mechanical and Automotive Engineering

Brief introduction of the speaker:

Upadrasta Ramamurty is currently the President Professor of Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, the Chief Scientist of Singapore Science and Technology Research Council (A*STAR), the Fellow of Indian Academy of Sciences, the Fellow of Indian Academy of Engineering and the Fellow of World Academy of Sciences (TWAS). He received his doctorate from Brown University in 1994, and worked as a postdoctoral fellow at University of California-Santa Barbara and Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1994 to 1997. From 1997 to 2018, he worked as an assistant professor, associate professor and professor at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and Indian Institute of Science and Technology (Bangalore). Since 2018, he has served as the president professor at Nanyang Technological University. His research interests include the deformation and fracture behavior of amorphous and crystalline alloys, additive manufacturing and the development and application of nano-indentation technology. He has published 380 papers (h-index=91) in academic salons of internationally renowned journals, with more than 30,000 citations. He is currently the editor of Acta Materialia and Scripta Materialia. Won Scopus Young Scientist Award, TWAS Award, Metallurgist Award of the Year awarded by Indian Government, ShantiSwarup Bhatnagar Award, CNR Rao Lecture Award of Advanced Materials of Indian Institute of Materials Research and Li Xun Lecture Award of Institute of Metals, China Academy of Sciences.

Summary of report:

In this presentation, I will discuss my own way of writing papers in the area of materials science and engineering. Particular emphasis will be on publishing in Acta Materi alia, with which I have I have considerable experience—both as an author and editor. Following a brief presentation, it will be an interactive session wherein I would try to answer various questions that students might have with respect to publishing their work in Acta/Scripta journals.