Krishna Muralidharan is an associate professor in the department of materials science and engineering at the University of Arizona, with joint appointments at the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory and the Graduate Interdisciplinary Program in Applied Mathematics. His research focuses on implementing integrated computational materials engineering paradigms to push the frontiers of additive manufacturing, multiscale energy storage systems and planetary materials analysis. Muralidharan earned his PhD from The University of Arizona in 2004, and prior to joining the University of Arizona as a faculty member, he worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory and the University of Florida.