Dr. Mrityunjay Singh is Past President of the American Ceramic Society and currently serves as President of the World Academy of Ceramics, Italy. He is a Governor of Acta Materialia, Inc., Academician of World Academy of Ceramics, and Fellow of ACerS, ASM International, AAAS, and NAI. He has received honorary doctorates from Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan and Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia.

Dr. Singh is recipient of more than eighty national and international awards including four R&D 100 awards, FLC Technology Transfer Award, NASA Public Service Medal, NASA Silver Snoopy Award, W.D. Kingery Award, John Jeppson Award, Richard M. Fulrath Award, President Award, and James I Mueller Award from American Ceramic Society; Sir Richard Brook Award and Honorary Fellowship from European Ceramic Society; Ishikawa International Carbon Prize and JFCA International Prize from Japan; Jacques-Lucas Award from ASM International-IMS, Distinguished Engineering Achievement Award from Engineers Council, International Dresden Barkhausen Award from Germany, Distinguished Alumnus Award from IIT-BHU, Varanasi and Keramos Award from Poland. In addition, he has been awarded many honorary and distinguished life memberships/ fellowships and honorary professorships from all over the world.

Dr. Singh is editor/co-editor of fifty five books and proceedings, seven special journal volumes, author/co-author of fourteen book chapters, and more than two hundred seventy five papers in various journals and proceedings. He has delivered numerous keynote and plenary presentations in international conferences, forums, and workshops, and serves on the advisory boards and committees of more than fifteen prestigious international journals and technical publications.

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