2026 Subra Suresh: Materials Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Materials Science	129	349	332	134	121	405	83157

Research.com Recognitions

2022 - Research.com Materials Science in Singapore Leader Award
2013 - Fellow, National Academy of Inventors
2012 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
2011 - Nadai Medal, The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
2008 - Fellow of the Materials Research Society
2008 - A.C. Eringen Medal
2006 - Acta Materialia Gold Medal
2004 - Fellow, The World Academy of Sciences
2004 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2002 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For development of mechanical behavior theory and experiment for advanced materials and applications, and for demonstrating fruitful new avenues for structural study.

Overview

Subra Suresh is affiliated with MIT in the United States and has made contributions primarily within the field of Engineering. Their work spans several subfields, including Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Mechanics of Materials, Mechanical Engineering, and Materials Chemistry.

They have published research on a variety of topics related to materials science and engineering. Key research themes include:

Metal and Thin Film Mechanics
Advanced machining processes and optimization
Machine Learning in Materials Science
Microfluidic and Bio-sensing Technologies
Electronic Packaging and Soldering Technologies
Electrostatic Discharge in Electronics
Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Subra Suresh cover diverse aspects of materials and engineering sciences:

"Extraction of mechanical properties of materials through deep learning from instrumented indentation," 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
"Circulating Tumor Cell Phenotyping via High-Throughput Acoustic Separation," 2020, Small
"Cracking in polymer substrates for flexible electronic devices and its mitigation," 2025, npj Flexible Electronics

The scientist's frequent coauthors include:

Ming Dao
Lu Lu
Punit Kumar
Upadrasta Ramamurty
George Em Karniadakis

Most frequent publication venues for Subra Suresh are:

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Small
npj Flexible Electronics

Subra Suresh has received multiple professional recognitions over the years. Awards include:

Fellow, National Academy of Inventors (2013)
Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2012)
Nadai Medal, The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) (2011)
A.C. Eringen Medal (2008)
Fellow of the Materials Research Society (2008)
Acta Materialia Gold Medal (2006)
Fellow, The World Academy of Sciences (2004)
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2004)
Member of the National Academy of Engineering (2002), awarded for development of mechanical behavior theory and experiment for advanced materials and applications, and for demonstrating fruitful new avenues for structural study

Best Publications

Fatigue of materials

S. Suresh

7066
Citations
Biomechanics and biophysics of cancer cells.

Subra Suresh

3578
Citations
Strengthening Materials by Engineering Coherent Internal Boundaries at the Nanoscale

K. Lu;K. Lu;L. Lu;L. Lu;S. Suresh;S. Suresh

3286
Citations
Thin Film Materials: Stress, Defect Formation and Surface Evolution

L. B. Freund;S. Suresh

3082
Citations
Mechanical behavior of nanocrystalline metals and alloys

K.S Kumar;H Van Swygenhoven;S Suresh

2818
Citations
Fundamentals of functionally graded materials

S. Suresh;A. Mortensen

2019
Citations
Computational modeling of the forward and reverse problems in instrumented sharp indentation

M. Dao;N. Chollacoop;K.J. Van Vliet;T.A. Venkatesh

1919
Citations
Cell and molecular mechanics of biological materials

G. Bao;S. Suresh

1331
Citations
Size-Dependent Endocytosis of Nanoparticles.

Sulin Zhang;Ju Li;George Lykotrafitis;Gang Bao

1233
Citations
Graded Materials for Resistance to Contact Deformation and Damage

S. Suresh

1156
Citations
A new method for estimating residual stresses by instrumented sharp indentation

S. Suresh;A.E. Giannakopoulos

1094
Citations
Connections between single-cell biomechanics and human disease states: gastrointestinal cancer and malaria

S. Suresh;Joachim P. Spatz;J. P. Mills;Alexandre Micoulet

1062
Citations
Mechanics of the human red blood cell deformed by optical tweezers

M. Dao;C.T. Lim;S. Suresh

1039
Citations
An experimental and numerical study of deformation in metal-ceramic composites

T. Christman;A. Needleman;S. Suresh

1025
Citations
Propagation of short fatigue cracks

S. Suresh;R. O. Ritchie

980
Citations
DETERMINATION OF ELASTOPLASTIC PROPERTIES BY INSTRUMENTED SHARP INDENTATION

A.E. Giannakopoulos;S. Suresh

954
Citations
Deformation of electrodeposited nanocrystalline nickel

K.S. Kumar;S. Suresh;M.F. Chisholm;J.A. Horton

929
Citations
Mechanistic models for the activation volume and rate sensitivity in metals with nanocrystalline grains and nano-scale twins

Robert J. Asaro;Subra Suresh

913
Citations
Isolation of exosomes from whole blood by integrating acoustics and microfluidics

Mengxi Wu;Yingshi Ouyang;Zeyu Wang;Rui Zhang

909
Citations
Atomistic mechanisms governing elastic limit and incipient plasticity in crystals

Ju Li;Krystyn J. Van Vliet;Ting Zhu;Sidney Yip

849
Citations
Refractive index maps and membrane dynamics of human red blood cells parasitized by Plasmodium falciparum.

Yong Keun Park;Monica Diez-Silva;Gabriel Popescu;George Lykotrafitis

787
Citations