K. R. Rajagopal received the B. Tech. degree in mechanical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India, in 1973, the M.S. degree in mechanical engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, in 1974, and the Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, in 1978.,He is currently a University Distinguished Professor and the Forsyth Chair with the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station. He has authored or coauthored over 300 archival papers on a variety of subfields in continuum mechanics that includes, among them, non-Newtonian fluid mechanics, finite elasticity, viscoelasticity, turbulence, mixture theory, mechanics of granular material, electrorheology, and continuum thermodynamics. He has coauthored three books and coedited several others in the field of mechanics.,Dr. Rajagopal is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and a past President of the Society for Natural Philosophy. He currently serves on the editorial advisory boards of 30 archival journals and book series. (Based on document published on 6 September 2006).
