1. June, 2017-till date, Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Patna
2. August 2016 – June 2017, Senior Scientist, CSIR-National Metallurgical Laboratory, Jamshedpur, India.
3. May 2016 – July 2017, Scientist Fellow, CSIR-National Metallurgical Laboratory, Jamshedpur, India.
4. May 2014 – April 2016 Alfred Deakin Post Doctoral Research Fellow, Deakin University, VIC, Australia.
5. June 2010 – April 2014, Researcher, R&D, Tata Steel Limited, Jamshedpur, India.

1. Surajit Kumar Paul, Numerical models of plastic zones and associated deformations for a stationary crack in a C(T) specimen loaded at differentR-ratios. Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics, Volume 84, August 2016, Pages 183–191. Notch Mechanics, edited by Filippo Berto and Gregory Glinka. (Impact Factor: 2.2)

Peer reviewed International journal papers:

2. B Das, A Singh, KS Arora, M Shome, SK Paul, Influence of pre-straining path on high cycle fatigue performance of DP 600 steel. International Journal of Fatigue, Volume 126, September 2019, Pages 369-380. (Impact Factor: 3.1)
3. Ashutosh Rajput, Puja Ghosal,  Anuranjan Kumar, Surajit Kumar Paul, Monotonic and cyclic plastic deformation behavior of nanocrystalline gold: atomistic simulations. Journal of Molecular Modeling 2019, 25, 153. (Impact Factor: 1.5)
4. SK Paul, Correlation between hole expansion ratio (HER) and notch tensile test. Manufacturing Letters 2019, 20, 1-4. (Impact Factor: 3.5)
5. S Kumar, H Krishnaswamy, RK Digavalli, SK Paul, Accounting Bauschinger effect in the numerical simulation of constrained groove pressing process. Journal of Manufacturing Processes 2019, 38, 49-62. (Impact Factor: 2.8)
6. SK Paul, S Roy, S Sivaprasad, S Tarafder, Forming limit diagram generation from in-plane uniaxial and notch tensile test with local strain measurement through digital image correlation. Accepted for publication in Physical Mesomechanics No. 3 (May 2019). (Impact Factor: 2.4)
7. Surajit Kumar Paul, Effect of twist boundary angle on deformation behavior of 〈1 0 0〉 FCC copper nanowires. Computational Materials Science, July 2018, 150, 24-32. (Impact Factor: 2.53)
8. SK Paul, S Kumar, S Tarafder, Orientation dependent crack tip blunting and crack propagation in a single crystal BCC iron. Bulletin of Materials Science, Accepted for publication on 19 Jan 2018. (Impact Factor: 0.9) December 2018, 41:148.
9. SK Paul, S Roy, S Sivaprasad, HN Bar, S Tarafder, Identification of Post-necking Tensile Stress–Strain Behavior of Steel Sheet: An Experimental Investigation Using Digital Image Correlation Technique.  Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance, Online available on 19 October 2018. 27 (11), 5736-5743. (Impact Factor: 1.34)
10. SK Paul, S Roy, S Sivaprasad, S Tarafder, A simplified procedure to determine post-necking true stress-strain curve from uniaxial tensile test of round metallic specimen using DIC. Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance, 2018, 27 (9), 4893-4899. (Impact Factor: 1.34)
11. SK Paul, N Stanford, T Hilditch, Austenite plasticity mechanisms and their behavior during cyclic loading. International Journal of Fatigue, Volume 106, January 2018, Pages 185-195.  (Impact Factor: 3.1)
12. SK Paul, S Roy, S Sivaprasad, HN Bar, S Tarafder, Local Ratcheting Response in Dissimilar Metal Weld Joint: Characterization Through Digital Image Correlation Technique. Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance, Volume 26, Issue 10, October 2017, Pages 4953-4963. (Impact Factor: 1.34)
13. Surajit Kumar Paul, Prediction of complete forming limit diagram from tensile properties of various steel sheets by a nonlinear regression based approach. Journal of Manufacturing Processes,  Volume 23, August 2016, Pages 192–200. (Impact Factor: 2.8)
14. SK Paul, S Kumar, S Tarafder, Effect of loading conditions on nucleation of nano void and failure of nanocrystalline aluminum: an atomistic investigation. Engineering Fracture Mechanics, Volume 176, 1 May 2017, Pages 257–262. (Impact Factor: 2.6)
15. Amit Kumar Rana, Surajit Kumar Paul, PP Dey, Effect of martensite volume faction on strain partitioning behavior of dual phase steel. Accepted for publication in Physical Mesomechanics 2018, 21 (4), 333-340. (Impact Factor: 2.4)
16. Surajit Kumar Paul, Numerical models to determine the effect of soft and hard inclusions on different plastic zones of a fatigue crack in a C (T) specimen. Engineering Fracture Mechanics, Volume 159, July 2016, Pages 90-97.  (Impact Factor: 2.6)
17. Surajit Kumar Paul, Prediction of non-proportional cyclic hardening and multiaxial fatigue life for FCC and BCC metals under constant amplitude of strain cycling. Materials Science and Engineering: A, Volume 656, 22 February 2016, Pages 111-119. (Impact Factor: 3.4)
18. Surajit Kumar Paul, Effect of micro-cavities on different plastic zones at the fatigue crack tip of a compact tension specimen. Engineering Fracture Mechanics, Volume 158, June 2016, Pages 13–22.  (Impact Factor: 2.6)
19. S. K. Paul, Timothy B Hilditch, Effect of mean stress on multiaxial ratcheting life: A simplified life prediction model based on average equivalent stress amplitude. The Journal of Strain Analysis for Engineering Design, August 2015, vol. 50 no. 6, Pages 366-372. (Impact Factor: 1.32)
20. Surajit Kumar Paul, Numerical models of plastic zones and associated deformations for elliptical inclusions in remote elastic loading–unloading with differentR-ratios. Engineering Fracture Mechanics, Volume 152, February 2016, Pages 72-80. (Impact Factor: 2.6)
21. Surajit Kumar Paul, Nicole Stanford, Timothy Hilditch, Effect of martensite volume fraction on low cycle fatigue behaviour of dual phase steels: Experimental and microstructural investigation. Materials Science and Engineering: A, Volume 638, 25 June 2015, Pages 296-304. (Impact Factor: 3.4)
22. Surajit Kumar Paul, Numerical models of plastic zones and associated deformations for a stationary crack in a C(T) specimen loaded at differentR-ratios. Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics, Volume 84, August 2016, Pages 183–191. Notch Mechanics, edited by Filippo Berto and Gregory Glinka. (Impact Factor: 2.2)
23. Surajit Kumar Paul, Nicole Stanford, Adam Taylor, Timothy Hilditch, The effect of low cycle fatigue, ratcheting and mean stress relaxation on stress–strain response and microstructural development in a dual phase steel. International Journal of Fatigue, Volume 80, November 2015, Pages 341-348. (Impact Factor: 3.1)
24. Surajit Kumar Paul, Nicole Stanford, Timothy Hilditch, Effect of martensite morphology on low cycle fatigue behaviour of dual phase steels: Experimental and microstructural investigation. Materials Science and Engineering: A, Volume 644, 17 September 2015, Pages 53-60. (Impact Factor: 3.4)
25. Surajit Kumar Paul, Path independent limiting criteria in sheet metal forming. Journal of Manufacturing Processes, Volume 20, Part 1, October 2015, Pages 291-303. (Impact Factor: 2.8)
26. Surajit Kumar Paul, Non-linear correlation between uniaxial tensile properties and shear-edge hole expansion ratio. Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance, October 2014, Volume 23, Issue 10, pp 3610-3619. (Impact Factor: 1.34)
27. Surajit Kumar Paul, A multiaxial low cycle fatigue life prediction model for both proportional and non-proportional loading conditions. Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance, September 2014, Volume 23, Issue 9, pp 3100-3107. (Impact Factor: 1.34)
28. Surajit Kumar Paul, Monideepa Mukherjee, S Kundu, S Chandra, Prediction of Hole Expansion Ratio for automotive grade steels. Volume 89, 2014, Pages 189-197. Computational Materials Science. (Impact Factor: 2.53)
29. Surajit Kumar Paul, Abhishek Raj, P. Biswas, G. Manikandan, R.K. Verma, Tensile flow behavior of ultra low carbon, low carbon and micro alloyed steel sheets for auto application under low to intermediate strain rate. Materials and Design. Volume 57, May 2014, Pages 211-217. (Impact Factor: 4.5)
30. Surajit Kumar Paul, Pritam Kumar Rana, Debdulal Das, Sanjay Chandra, Saurabh Kundu, High and low cycle fatigue performance comparison between micro-alloyed and TMT rebar. Construction & Building Materials. Volume 54, 15 March 2014, Pages 170-179. (Impact Factor: 3.5)
31. Surajit Kumar Paul, S. Majumdar, S.Kundu, Low cycle fatigue behavior of thermo-mechanically treated rebar. Materials and Design. Volume 58, June 2014, Pages 402-411. (Impact Factor: 4.5)
32. Surajit Kumar Paul, Monideepa Mukherjee, Determination of bulk flow properties of a material from the flow properties of its constituent phases. Computational Materials Science. Volume 84, March 2014, Pages 1-12. (Impact Factor: 2.53)
33. N. Khutia, P.P.Dey, Surajit Kumar Paul, S. Tarafder, Development of Non Masing Characteristic Model for LCF and Ratcheting Fatigue Simulation of SA333 C-Mn Steel. Mechanics of Materials. Volume 65, October 2013, Pages 88-102. (Impact Factor: 2.7)
34. Surajit Kumar Paul, G. Manikandan, Rahul Kumar Verma, Prediction of entire forming limit diagram from simple tensile material properties. Journal of Strain Analysis for Engineering Design. Volume 48 (6), 2013, Pages 386-394. (Impact Factor: 1.32)
35. Surajit Kumar Paul, Effect of material inhomogeneity on cyclic plastic deformation behavior in microstructural level: micromechanics based modeling on dual phase steel. Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering. 21, 055001, July 2013. (Impact Factor: 1.8)
36. Surajit Kumar Paul, Effect of martensite volume fraction on stress triaxiality and deformation behavior of dual phase steel. Materials and Design. Volume 50, September 2013, Pages 782–789. (Impact Factor: 4.5)
37. H.N. Bar, S. Sivaprasad, N. Narasaiah, Surajit K Paul, B. N. Sen, Sanjay Chandra, Low Cycle Fatigue and Ratchetting Fatigue Behaviour of High UTS/YS Reinforcing Steel Bars. Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance. June 2013, Volume 22, Issue 6, pp 1701-1707. (Impact Factor: 1.34)
38. Surajit Kumar Paul, Theoretical analysis of strain and stress based forming limit diagrams. Journal of Strain Analysis for Engineering Design. April 2013 vol. 48 no. 3, Page 177-188. (Impact Factor: 1.32)
39. Surajit Kumar Paul, S. Tarafder, Cyclic plastic deformation response at fatigue crack tips. International Journal of Pressure Vessels and Piping, Volume 101, January 2013, Pages 81-90. (Impact Factor: 1.54)
40. Surajit Kumar Paul, Real microstructure based micromechanical model to simulate microstructural level deformation behavior and failure initiation in DP 590 steel. Materials & Design, Volume 44, February 2013, Pages 397-406. (Impact Factor: 4.5)
41. Surajit Kumar Paul, Abhay Kumar, Micromechanics based modeling to predict flow behavior and plastic strain localization of dual phase steels
    Computational Materials Science, Volume 63, October 2012, Pages 66-74. (Impact Factor: 2.53)
42. Surajit Kumar Paul, Predicting the flow behavior of metals under different strain rate and temperature through phenomenological modeling. Computational Materials Science, Volume 65, December 2012, Pages 91-99. (Impact Factor: 2.53)
43. Surajit Kumar Paul, S. Sivaprasad, S. Dhar, S. Tarafder; True stress controlled ratcheting behavior of 304LN stainless steel. Journal of Material Science. 2012, Volume 47, pages 4660–4672. (Impact Factor: 3)
44. Surajit Kumar Paul, Effect of anisotropy on ratcheting: an experimental investigation on IFHS steel sheet. Materials Science & Engineering A. Volume 538, 15 March 2012, Pages 349-355. (Impact Factor: 3.4)
45. Surajit Kumar Paul, Micromechanics based modeling of Duel Phase steels: prediction of ductility and failure modes. Computational Materials Science. Volume 56, April 2012, Pages 34-42. (Impact Factor: 2.53)
46. Surajit Kumar Paul, S. Sivaprasad, S. Dhar, S. Tarafder; Cyclic plastic deformation behavior in SA333 Gr. 6 C–Mn steel. Materials Science and Engineering: A, Volume 528, Issue 24, 15 September 2011, Pages 7341-7349. (Impact Factor: 3.4)
47. Surajit Kumar Paul, S. Sivaprasad, S. Dhar, S. Tarafder; Cyclic plastic deformation and damage in 304LN stainless steel. Materials Science and Engineering: A, Volume 528, Issue 15, 15 June 2011, Pages 4873-4882. (Impact Factor: 3.4)
48. Surajit Kumar Paul, S. Sivaprasad, S. Dhar, S. Tarafder; Key issues in cyclic plastic deformation: Experimentation. Mechanics of Materials, Volume 43, Issue 11, November 2011, Pages 705-720. (Impact Factor: 2.7)
49. S. Sivaprasad,  S.K. Paul,  N. Narasaiah,  S. Tarafder; Experimental investigation on cyclic deformation behaviour of primary heat transport piping materials: Masing analysis of hysteresis loops.  Transactions of the Indian Institute of Metals 2010, Volume 63 (2-3), Pages 559-563. (Impact Factor: 0.91)
50. S. Sivaprasad, Surajit Kumar Paul, Arpan Das, N. Narasaiah, S. Tarafder; Cyclic plastic behaviour of primary heat transport piping materials: Influence of loading schemes on hysteresis loop. Materials Science and Engineering: A, Volume 527, Issue 26, 15 October 2010, Pages 6858-6869. (Impact Factor: 3.4)
51. S. Sivaprasad, Surajit Kumar Paul, Suneel Kumar Gupta, Vivek Bhasin, N. Narasaiah, S. Tarafder; Influence of uniaxial ratchetting on low cycle fatigue behviour of SA 333 Gr. 6 C–Mn steel. International Journal of Pressure Vessels and Piping, Volume 87, Issue 8, August 2010, Pages 464-469. (Impact Factor: 1.54)
52. S. K. Paul, S. Sivaprasad, S. Dhar, S. Tarafder; Cyclic plastic deformation and cyclic hardening/softening behavior in 304LN stainless steel. Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics, Volume 54, Issue 1, August 2010, Pages 63-70. (Impact Factor: 2.2)
53. Surajit Kumar Paul, S. Sivaprasad, S. Dhar, S. Tarafder; True stress control asymmetric cyclic plastic behavior in SA333 C–Mn steel. International Journal of Pressure Vessels and Piping, Volume 87, Issue 8, August 2010, Pages 440-446. (Impact Factor: 1.54)
54. Surajit Kumar Paul, S. Sivaprasad, S. Dhar, S. Tarafder; Ratcheting and low cycle fatigue behavior of SA333 steel and their life prediction. Journal of Nuclear Materials, Volume 401, Issues 1–3, June 2010, Pages 17-24. (Impact Factor: 2.44)
55. Surajit Kumar Paul, S. Sivaprasad, S. Dhar, M. Tarafder, S. Tarafder; Simulation of cyclic plastic deformation response in SA333 C–Mn steel by a kinematic hardening model. Computational Materials Science, Volume 48, Issue 3, May 2010, Pages 662-671. (Impact Factor: 2.53)

1. Cyclic plastic deformation behaviour of PHT piping materials: An experimental investigation, S. Sivaprasad, Surajit Kr. Paul, S. Tarafder, Suneel K Gupta, Vivek Bhasin —Proceedings of the 21^st International Conference on Structural Mechanics in Reactor Technology (SMiRT21) (in CD), 6-11 Nov 2010, New Delhi, India.
2. A three constants kinematic hardening law for simulating low cycle fatigue and ratcheting behavior of SA333 steel, Surajit Kumar Paul, S.Sivaprasad, S.Dhar, M.Tarafder and S.Tarafder — Proceedings of 12^th International Conference on Fracture (ICF12) (in CD), 7-12 July 2009, Ottawa, Canada
3. Cyclic Deformation Behaviour of Primary Heat Transport Materials-Analysis of Hysteresis Loops, S. Sivaprasd, Surajit Paul, N. Narasaiah and S. Tarafder — 12^th International Conf. on Fracture (ICF12), to be held on 12-17 July 2009 at Ottawa, Canada.
4. Experimental Investigation on Uniaxial Ratcheting Behavior of SA 333 Gr. 6 C-Mn Steel, S. Sivaprasd, Surajit Paul, N. Narasaiah and S. Tarafder — 12^th International Conf. on Fracture (ICF12), to be held on 12-17 July 2009 at Ottawa, Canada.
5. Experimental investigation on cyclic deformation behaviour of primary heat transport piping materials: Masing analysis of hysteresis loops, S.Sivaprasad, Surajit Kumar Paul, N.Narasaiah, S.Tarafder— 5^th International Conf. on Creep, Fatigue and Creep-Fatigue Interaction (CF5), Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam on 24-26 Sept 2008 (in CD, to be published as a special issue of Trans. IIM)

1. Surajit Kumar Paul, Satish Ray, S. Sivaprasad, HN Bar, S. Tarafder, Procedure to find out post-necking tensile stress-strain behaviour of steel sheet through DIC technique. 2nd international conference on "Emerging Materials: Characterization & Application" (EMCA 2017) 15-17 March 2017, organized by NIT Durgapur.
2. Amit Kumar Rana, Surajit Kumar Paul, PP Dey, Analysis of stress field around a soft inclusion under uniaxial tensile stress. 2nd international conference on "Emerging Materials: Characterization & Application" (EMCA 2017) 15-17 March 2017, organized by NIT Durgapur.
3. Surajit Kumar Paul, S. Tarafder, Cyclic plastic deformation response at fatigue crack tips. 66^th annual technical meeting, The Indian Institute of Metals, Jamshedpur, India, 18-19 November 2012.
4. Surajit Kumar Paul, Micromechanical model to simulate microstructural level deformation behavior and failure initiation in Dual Phase Steels. 66^th annual technical meeting, The Indian Institute of Metals, Jamshedpur, India, 18-19 November 2012.
5. Abhay Kumar, Surajit Kumar Paul, Finite Element Analysis Of Rebar Straightening Process Using Kinematic Hardening Model. 3rd Asian Symposium on Materials and Processing, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai 600036, India. 30-31 Aug, 2012.
6. G.Manikandan, Rahul Kumar Verma, Surajit Kumar Paul, Finite element analysis of hole expansion test for various cold rolled automotive steels. IDDRG 2012, 25-29 November 2012, IIT Mumbay, India.
7. Surajit Kumar Paul, S. Tarafder, Cyclic plastic deformation response at fatigue crack tips. FFIA 2012, Jamshedpur, India, 4-5 May 2012.
8. S. Tarafder, S.Sivaprasad, N.Narasaiah, Arpan Das, Surajit Paul, Deformation, fatigue and fracture behaviour of pressure vessel and piping materials, Proceedings of 5^th Indo-German Theme Meeting on Structural Integrity of Pressure Retaining Components, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, 18 Feb 2009, eds. S. Acharyaa, J.Chattopadhyay and H.S.Kushwaha.
9. Surajit Kumar Paul, S.Sivaprasad, S.Tarafder, M.Tarafder and S.Dhar, Finite element simulation of uniaxial low cycle fatigue & ratcheting behaviour for SA 333 steel, National Symposium for Materials Research Scholars 2008 (MR 2008), Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, 17-18 May 2008.

1. Surajit Kumar Paul, S. Tarafder, S. Sivaprasad, HN Bar, Characterization of deformation and fatigue behaviour of weldment through digital image correlation technique. National Welding Seminar (NWS 2016) 15-17 December 2016 at Science City, Kolkata.
2. Surajit Kumar Paul, Simulation of plastic deformation and damage in different length scale. FFIA 2017, 23-24 March 2017, Jadavpur University, Kolkata.