Dr. Bharat Bhushan received an M.S. in mechanical engineering
from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1971,an M.S. in
mechanics and a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University
of Colorado at Boulder in 1973 and 1976,respectively,an MBA from
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute at Troy,NY in 1980,Doctor
Technicae from the University of Trondheim atTrondheim,Norway in
1990,a Doctor of Technical Sciences from the Warsaw University of
Technology at Warsaw,Poland in 1996,and Doctor Honouris Causa from
the National Academy of Sciences at Gomel,Belarus in 2000. He is a
registered professional engineer. He is presently an Ohio Eminent
Scholar and The Howard D. Winbigler Professor in the College of
Engineering,and the Director of the Nanoprobe Laboratory for Bio-
and Nanotechnology and Biomimetics (NLB2) at the Ohio State
University,Columbus,Ohio.His research interests include fundamental
studies with a focus on scanning probe techniques in the
interdisciplinary areas of bionanotribology,bionanomechanics and
bionanomaterials characterization,and applications to
bionanotechnology and biomimetics. He is an internationally
recognized expert of bionanotribology and bionanomechanics using
scanmng probe microscopy,and is one of the most prolific authors.
He is considered by some a pioneer of the tribology and mechanics
of magnetic storage devices. He has authored 6 scientific
books,more than 90 handbook chapters,more than 700 scientific
papers (h factor - 45+; ISI Highly Cited in Materials Science,since
2007),and more than 60 technical reports,edited more than 45
books,and holds 17 US and foreign patents. He is co-editor of
Springer Nano Science and Technology Series and coeditor of
Microsystem Technologies. He has given more than 400 invited
presentations on six continents and more than 140 keynoteplenary
addresses at major international conferences.