Dr. Ramesh Talreja is currently Tenneco Endowed Professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M University. Prior to that, 1991-2001, he was a professor of aerospace engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology.

His early research career was at The Technical University of Denmark, where he received his PhD (1974) and Doctor of Technical Sciences (1985).

Dr. Talreja has published extensively in the composite materials field, including a monograph, Fatigue of Composite Materials (1987), Damage Mechanics of Composite Materials (editor, 1994), Polymer Matrix Composites (editor, 2000), and his latest book, Damage and Failure of Composite Materials (with C.V. Singh, Cambridge University Press, 2012).

He has written 25 book chapters, given over 230 invited presentations at conferences, universities and industry R&D organizations, taught over 20 short courses, and is or has been on Editorial Boards of 15 international journals.

He is the recipient of the 2013 ICCM Scala Award and World Fellow and Life Member of ICCM. His current interests are in cost-effective and sustainable design of composite structures.

He was elected as member of the Euorpean Academy of Engineering in 2018.