Prof. Pankaj Kalita

Dr. Pankaj Kalita is Assistant Professor in the Centre for Energy, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati. He has graduated from Jorhat Engineering College (Under Dibrugarh University, Assam) in Mechanical Engineering. He has completed his master degree (M.Tech) in Mechanical Engineering (specialization: Fluids and Thermal Engineering) and PhD in Energy from IIT Guwahati. He worked as Assistant Professor in the Department of Energy at Tezpur University, Assam before joining at IIT Guwahati. He has more than 8 years of teaching and 16 years of research experience in the field of renewable energy. He has published more than 50 peer reviewed research papers in various reputed journals, 12 book chapters and more than 20 conference papers. He is a recipient of India Distinguished Visiting Fellow awarded by the University of Nottingham, United Kingdom in the year 2010. He was also selected for attending prestigious India-UK young scientist networking conference on low carbon technologies held during 2-3 December, 2009 Kolkata organized by British Council Kolkata. He has also represented IIT Guwahati in the 2nd Winter School held at Gifu University, Japan in December 2016. He has been awarded early career research award by Science Engineering Research Board (SERB), DST, Govt. of India. Currently he is guiding eleven PhD students. He has successfully implemented seven research projects and twelve consultancy projects funded by different government and private agencies in various fields of renewable energy. At present two research projects are in progress in the areas of energy storage, and renewable energy integration for remote electrification. He has organized five short-term courses, one national conference and one International conference sponsored by TEQIP in the areas of clean energy, waste to energy, thermo fluids and renewable energy successfully. He has also organized a GIAN course on Advances in Combustion and Gasification Technology successfully in 2018. His current areas of research includes solar energy conversion, thermochemical and biochemical conversion, energy management, process integration, energy storage (li-ion and thermal energy) and integration of renewable energy for remote electrification.
More info