Affiliation: Polish Academy of Sciences
Keywords: Structural health monitoring, damage detection, optical fiber based sensing, optimization, data fusion
Full profile: Dr Rohan Soman has a background in Structural Engineering. He completed his bachelor studies in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Pune, India and obtaining his Master degree in Engineering Design with research in the area of damage detection in 2010 from the University of Manchester, UK.
He has been a Marie Curie Fellow on multiple occasions as well as the Humboldt fellow. He has received several recognitions for his research including recognition among top 2% of researchers in the world since 2020. He has also received several national recognitions as one of the top young researchers in Poland.
His current scientific interest is mainly focused on:
• Guided wave-based damage detection using FBG sensors,
• Optimization of sensor placement for different SHM applications,
• Strain based SHM using FBG sensors,
• Vibration based SHM in offshore structures,
• Electromechanical impedance technique,
• Baseline free damage detection in structures.
He has been a Principal Investigator of several national and international projects attracting over 1M Euros in funding. He actively publishes research articles in top peer reviewed journals and has more than 45 journal papers and more than 50 papers in conference proceedings.
He has been a reviewer for more than 30 different journals from the JCR list, and also served as a guest editor for 2 different journals. He works actively for the popularization of science and has served as the Chair of Polish Chapter of the Marie Curie Alumni association from (2017-2021).