Thin-Films for Machining Difficult-to-Cut Materials (PDF)

Ch Sateesh Kumar completed his PhD at the National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, India. He worked as Visiting Assistant Professor at the Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, India. Later he joined the Advanced Materials Group at the Czech Technical University, Prague, Czech Republic as Postdoctoral Researcher. Presently he is working as a Senior Researcher at the Aeronautics Advanced Manufacturing Centre, Bilbao, Spain in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Madanapalle Institute of Technology and Science, India. Also, he is working as a Senior Research Associate in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Technology, University of Johannesburg, South Africa. His research interests include machining, surface modification techniques, coating deposition and characterization, and tribology. He has published 21 research articles in highly reputed journals and also presented his work at seven renowned conferences. As per Google Scholar, his h-index and i10-index are 10. He has also extended his services as a reviewer in many reputed journals.

Filipe Daniel Fernandes is currently an Assistant Professor at the School of Engineering at the Polytechnic of Porto, Portugal. In parallel, he integrated the body researcher group of IPN - Instituto Pedro Nunes, where he collaborated in the planning, preparation, and submission of project proposals to different funding entities. He is also a collaborator at the University of Coimbra, Portugal. In 2017 he was awarded a postdoc grant from FCT (SFRH/BPD/116334/2016) having as host institution the University of Minho, Portugal, where he improved the machinability of Ti alloys through the development of novel physical vapor deposition (PVD) films. He was placed in first place among 68 candidates. His work was recognized at the International Conference on Plasma Surface Engineering (Early Career Award 2018), perhaps the most known international conference on