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Principal Investigator

Rajeev Gupta

Assistant Professor

Corrosion Engineering Program

Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

213D Engineering Research Center, The University of Akron

264 Wolf Ledges Pkwy, Akron, OH 44325-3906

Phone: +1-330-972-7839, Email: rgupta@uakron.edu

Dr. Rajeev Gupta is an assistant professor in the Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Akron, Akron, Ohio. He earned the Ph.D. degree in Materials Engineering from the Monash University, Australia in year 2010, and B.Tech. in Materials & Metallurgical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. Prior to joining the University of Akron in November 2014, he was a research fellow at the Monash University, and then a research academic at the Deakin University, Australia.
Rajeev’s primary research interests lie in the broad areas of corrosion and material engineering including structure/processing/property relationships, passivity, corrosion initiation and propagation in metallic materials, alloy design, high temperature oxidation, and electrochemical methods to produce multicomponent metallic and ceramic coatings.