Prof. D. P. Mishra

Dr. D.P. Mishra is working as a professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur, Kanpur, India where he was instrumental in establishing a combustion laboratory. He is currently holding Indian Oil Golden Jubilee Professional Chair in IIT, Kanpur. He has served as Visiting Professor in 2002 at the Tokyo-Denki University, Japan. His areas of research interest include combustion, computational fluid dynamics, atomization, et.. He is recipient of the Young Scientist Award in 1991 from the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, Government of India. He has been conferred the INSA-JSPS Fellowship in 2002. In recognition of his research work, Dr. Mishra received Sir Rajendranath Mookerjee Memorial award from The Institution of Engineers (India), Kolkata, India. Dr. Mishra has been a recipient of Samanta Chadrasekhar award for his contribution to the science and technology. For technological contribution for the common people, he has been conferred with Vikash Prerak Sanman in 2010. Currently he is serving as an Assistant Editor, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, Elsevier, USA. Besides this, he is also serving as an editorial board member of Journal of the Chinese Institute of Engineers, Taylor & Francis, and International Journal of Turbo and Jet engines. Dr. Mishra has six Indian patents and around 200 research papers in referred Journals and in conference proceedings to his credit. He has authored a course titled Fundamentals of Combustion, published by Prentice Hall of India, New Delhi. Two other text books on Experimental Combustion and Engineering Thermodynamics have been published by Taylor and Francis, USA and Cengage India Pvt Ltd, New Delhi respectively. He is also serving as a managing trustee of International Foundation of Humanistic Education. He is also actively involved in social works in the field of education, natural farming, etc. He is instrumental in making all India level group, Awake Mother India which will try to rejuvenate our Mother land.