Dr Manu Srivastava is presently serving PDPM Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design and Manufacturing Jabalpur, India in the department of Mechanical Engineering. Her previous assignment was as a Prof. & Head, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Director Research, Faculty of Engineering and Technology, MRIIRS, Faridabad, India. She has completed her Ph.D. in the field of additive manufacturing from Faculty of Technology, University of Delhi. Her field of research is additive manufacturing, friction-based AM, friction stir processing, advanced materials, manufacturing practices and optimization techniques. She has authored/co-authored around 100 publications in various technical platforms of repute. She has been awarded 09 industrial design patents and 1 copyright.
She has authored/ co-authored seven books in the field of advanced manufacturing. Out of these, three have already been published with CRC press, Taylor & Francis group and others are either in press or in accepted stage. Two of them are with Wiley, one with Elsevier and one with Springer publishing house.
She is working as an editor-in-chief of a book series titled “Advanced manufacturing of Materials” with CRC Press, Taylor & Francis group. She has also worked as managing guest editor for a special issue of a Scopus Indexed Elsevier journal. She is on editorial board of several reputed journals in the capacity of editorial member. Additionally, she is serving as a reviewer in more than 30 Journals. She is working on various projects of around 5 million INR and has completed several consultancy works funded by Govt. of India in the field of Hybrid Additive Manufacturing and rehabilitation robotics. She has a total teaching and research experience of around 15 years. She has won several proficiency awards during the course of her career including merit awards, best teacher awards, etc. One special award that needs mention is the young leader award. She has delivered invited lectures, chaired scientific sessions in several national and international conferences, STTPs, and QIP programs. She is a life member of Additive Manufacturing Society of India (AMSI), Vignana Bharti (VIBHA), The Institution of Engineers (IEI India), Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE), Indian society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ISTAM) and Indian Institute of Forging (IIF).