Pranav Shrotriya is a Manorama and Shyam Bahadur Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Iowa State University. He received his BTech in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institutes of Technology Mumbai in 1995 and earned his MS and Ph.D., both in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1997 and 2001, respectively. He was also a Post Doctoral Research Associate at Princeton University (2000–2002) and a Post Doctoral Research Associate at Brown University (2002–2003). His main interest areas include the mechanical response of micro/nanoscale structures; experimental and computational mechanics at small length scales; the mechanics of surface stress sensors and molecular adsorption; the stress-assisted dissolution and damage of biomedical implants; and the mechanics of manufacturing processes.