B. S. Murty is a Professor and Girija & R. Muralidharan Chair Professor at the Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India. Since August 2019, he serves as the Director of Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad. His academic journey started with a Diploma in Metallurgy in 1983 followed by a BE from VRCE Nagpur in 1986 and a ME from IISc Bangalore in 1988. He obtained his PhD (1992) also from IISc, Bangalore. After serving at IIT Kharagpur for 12 years, he has been a Professor at IIT Madras since 2004. He is also currently an Adjunct Professor at Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada since 2011 and also an Associate faculty of the School of Engineering, University of British Columbia, Canada since 2016. His main areas of research include nanocrystalline materials, high entropy alloys, bulk metallic glasses, thermodynamics and kinetics of phase transformations, transmission electron microscopy and atom probe tomography. He has carried out several sponsored research projects funded by DST (GOI). He has set up a National Facility for Atom Probe Tomography at IIT Madras with a remotely operable Local Electrode Atom Probe (LEAP) (first such facility globally) that can characterize materials in 3D at the atomic scale. He has also set up Deakin-IITM Centre of Excellence on Advanced Materials and Manufacturing at IIT Madras jointly with Deakin University, Australia. He has authored above 400 journal publications and 4 books.