Dr. Perumal Nithiarasu (PN) is Professor and Director of Research at College of Engineering, Swansea University, UK. He is also a Deputy Head of College of Engineering and currently also holds a position of Dean Academic Leadership (Research Impact) at Swansea University.

PN has served in various capacities as the Head of Zienkewicz Centre for Computational Engineering, several SU committees including HR Research Working Group as a chair leading the HR excellence award and REF14 impact and appeal committees as a member.

A Mechanical Engineer by training, PN has extensive experience in teaching engineering students of various disciplines. PN’s research areas of interest include computational fluid dynamics/biomedical engineering and recently AI.

Dr. Nithiarasu has done his B.E, M. Tech and Doctorate (Ph.D.) in Mechanical Engineering. He has further achieved his Doctor of Science (D.Sc.) specializing in Computational Engineering.

PN’s achievements in various disciplines has fetched several accolades to him. He was awarded the Zienkiewicz silver medal of ICE London in 2002, ECCOMAS Young Investigator award in 2004 and the prestigious EPSRC Advanced Fellowship in 2006. His various other awards and honors include the following:

Year	Award	Awarding body
2018 –	Adjunct Professor (VAJRA)	Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
2014-2017	Adjunct Professor	Moscow Institute of Physics, Russia
2014 –	Visiting Professor	University of Naples, “Parthennope”, Italy
2011, 2012	Distinguished Foreign Scientist	CSIR, Government of India
2010, 2019	Highly commanded paper award	Emerald Publishers, UK
2006	EPSRC Advanced Fellowship	EPSRC, UK
2004	Young Scientist award	ECCOMAS, European Society
2002	Zienkiewicz Silver Medal	Institution of Civil Engineers, UK
1998	Most Outstanding Paper Award	MCB University Press, UK
1992	First Rank Holder	M Tech, University of Kerala, India

PN is the founding Editor in Chief of the International Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering, published by Wiley-Blackwell. PN was elected to the fellowship of the Learned Society of Wales in 2018. Few other credentials as listed below:

Since	Activity	Name
2010 –	Editor in Chief	International Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering
2011-2014	Associate Editor	ASME Applied Mechanics Reviews
2012 –	Series Editor	Wiley Computational Mechanics Series
Various	Editorial boards	Journals: IJNMF, IJNMHFF, IJCM, AAMM, JMMM
2009 –	Co-chair	Conferences: CMBE, AfriCOMP, ThermaCOMP
Various	Guest Editor	IJNME, IJNMF, IJNMHFF, AAMM
Various	Conference committees	IACM (2014, Barcelona), ECCOMAS (2016, Crete), Many more.

Funding
PN’s Past / present research funding of more than £4m received from EPSRC, NASA, NERC, NISCHR, Royal Society, Royal Academy of Engineering, Leverhulme Trust and industries (2001 – 2015).

Period	Position
2015 –	Academic Advisory Group Member, IPEM, UK
2015 – 2018	External Examiner, Mechanical Engineering, University College London, UK
2013 –	Steering committee, PhD in engineering, University of Naples “Parthenope”, Italy.
2013 – 2016	Steering Group, Research Links, British Council, London, UK
2013-2014	Evaluator/Consensus coordinator, Norwegian, Czech, Estonian, Romanian, Portugal, Spanish research programmes.
June 2012	Panel Member, Esthonian Research Council
2006 –	EPSRC, UK, Peer Review College

 

PN’s Membership with Scientific Societies

Year	Institution	Grade
2018 –	Learned Society of Wales	Fellow
2006 –	IMA, UK	Fellow
2010 –	IMechE, UK	CEng, Fellow
2015 –	IPEM	Fellow
2000 –	AIAA, USA	Senior Member (Life)

 

Summary of Publications Record

Type	Numbers published/presented
Books	4
Book chapters	10
Journals	125
Conferences	>200

 

Dr. Perumal Nithiarasu has been on a mission in continuing his research, publications and contribution in his areas of Computational engineering, blood flow, CFD, finite element method AI where he is expertise in besides his core Mechanical Engineering.