Devinder Yadav received his Master of Science (by research) and PhD in the Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Madras, in the year 2010 and 2015, respectively. He was a research associate at the Indian Institute of Science for 9 months and then for the next 2 years at the University of Colorado Boulder, in the US. He joined as Assistant Professor in the department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Patna in April 2018. His research interest includes flash sintering of ceramics, friction surfacing, non-equilibrium composites and electron microscopy.