Rajiv S. Mishra (Ph.D. in Metallurgy from University of Sheffield) is a Professor at University of North Texas from Sept. 2011. Before that he served as Curators' Professor of Metallurgical Engineering in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the Missouri S&T. He is also the UNT Site Director of the NSF I/UCRC for Friction Stir Processing and a Fellow of ASM International. His highest degree is Ph.D. in Metallurgy from the University of Sheffield, UK (1988). He has received a number of awards which include: the Firth Pre-doctoral Fellowship from the University of Sheffield, the Brunton Medal for the best Ph.D. dissertation in the School of Materials from the University of Sheffield in 1988, the Young Metallurgist Award from the Indian Institute of Metals in 1993, Associate of the Indian Academy of Sciences in 1993, the Faculty Excellence Awards from the University of Missouri-Rolla in 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 & 2007, and co-recipient of Alexander Schwarzkopf Prize for Technological Innovation awarded to the Center for Friction Stir Processing by NSF-IUCRC Directors Association. He has authored or co-authored 250 papers in peer-reviewed journals and proceedings and is principal inventor of four U.S. patents. His current publication based h-index is 41 and his papers have been cited more than 6500 times. He has co-edited a book on friction stir welding and processing, and edited or co-edited thirteen TMS conference proceedings. He is the current chair of TMS Structural Materials Division and serves on the TMS Board of Directors from March 2013. He also serves on the editorial board of Materials Science and Engineering A, and Science and Technology of Welding and Joining.