Dr. Abheepsit Raturi received his B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from Uttarakhand Technical University, India, in 2013, and his M.Tech in Materials Engineering from the National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal, in 2017.
During his M.Tech, he carried out research at the Defence Metallurgical Research Laboratory (DMRL), Hyderabad, on the microstructure and creep behavior of γ-TiAl alloys. He completed his PhD in Materials Science at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in 2023, under the supervision of Prof. Nilesh P. Gurao and Prof. Krishanu Biswas. His PhD research focused on the design of refractory high-entropy alloys and on the deformation mechanisms of a non-equiatomic MoNbTaVW alloy during high-pressure torsion. He combined EBSD, TEM and synchrotron XRD to relate the evolution of heterogeneous microstructures to mechanical properties.
From June 2023 to September 2026, Abheepsit was a postdoctoral fellow at Tel Aviv University in the group of Prof. Noam Eliaz. There he studied martensitic stainless steel produced by directed energy deposition, with emphasis on M23C6 precipitation, hydrogen diffusivity and trapping, and hydrogen embrittlement. In parallel, under the supervision of Prof. Amir Natan, he used DFT (VASP) to model carbon and hydrogen diffusion and trapping at BCC-FCC Fe interfaces.
In November 2026 Abheepsit joined the group of Prof. Wayne D. Kaplan as a postdoctoral researcher. His project addresses the formation, structure and stability of transient grain boundaries produced by rapid heating, and their role in grain boundary diffusion during sintering. He will study the α-Al₂O₃ system using aberration-corrected S/TEM, EELS and EDS. The aim is to follow the evolution of grain boundaries from metastable to steady-state structures and to compare grain boundary diffusion in the two states.
Dr. Raturi can be reached at +972-55-257-0243 and by mail at abheepsit.r@campus.technion.ac.il.