Congratulations to Dr. Vikas Tomar on being promoted to Associate Professor with tenure.

Dr. Vikas Tomar received his Ph.D. from the Georgia institute of Technology in 2005.

His areas of interest include:

• Microstructure and nanostructure dependent mechanical and thermal behavior of ceramic matrix composites
• Understanding failure in nanostructured bio-motivated polymer matrix composites
• Photomechanics of bioactive materials
• Atomistic and continuum methods and schemes to analyze new materials such as nanowires, nanobelts, nanorods etc. in multifunctional environments at experimental length- and time-scales