Sarma, Anil Kumar
Dr Anil Kumar Sarma, is a Scientist-E/Director at Sardar Swaran Singh National Institute of Bio-Energy (Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, Govt of India), Punjab, India. He is an MTech in Energy Technology (2002) and PhD in Energy from Tezpur University (2006). He remains guest faculty at Tezpur University, Research Associate at IIT Guwahati (2007-2008), visiting researcher at Seikei University, Japan (2008-2009), joined and left from faculty at RGIPT before joining his present position at Sardar Swaran Singh National Institute of BioEnergy. He has been working as a scientist at SSS-NIBE since July 2009. He has been rendering his duty as Head of Office at SSS-NIBE and coordinator for Indo US collaboration under SAGE. He delivered invited lectures in several platforms such as training programs and conferences of national and international stature. He was awarded with Bharat Jyoti Award (14th Feb,2012) by India International Friendship Society, for Meritorious Services, Outstanding performance and Remarkable role in his field. He was selected as a member of sustainability and development by the Japanese Society. Recently he has been appointed as the honorary Research Advisor, by Nan Yang Academy of Sciences (NAAS), Singapore and as a college member for GCRF (UK). He is also a reviewer of renewable and bioenergy projects for several bodies of Govt of India and remains a key catalyst of the Institute since the inception. His frontier areas of interest include biodiesel production and catalysis: Biocrude oil production, fractional distillation and characterization including application in IC engines leading to biorefinery development from oilseeds, catalyst development from agrowaste for fuel additive synthesis. He has published over 50 publications in reputed journals and proceedings which are readily available in google scholar citations. He has guided 4 PhD, 4 post-doctoral fellows, 15+ Master’s students for their dissertation works.
Aslam, Mohammad
Dr Mohammad Aslam, is an Assistant Professor at Department of Chemistry, National Institute of Technology (Ministry of Education, Government of India), Srinagar (India). He obtained his first Master’s degree in “Industrial Chemistry” from Aligarh Muslim University (A Premier Central University of India), Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, followed by Master’s degree in “Fuels and Combustion” from Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra (Ranchi), Jharkhand (India). Later, He was awarded Doctorate from National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar (India) for his dissertation entitled, “Hydroprocessing of Seed Oils into Transportation Fuels”. He also worked as Post-Doctoral Fellow/Research Associate in Sardar Swaran Singh National Institute of Bioenergy (An Autonomous Institution of Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, Government of India). He has more than 15 years of academic and research experience. His current research is focusing on green fuels derived from second/third generation feedstocks and their application to transportation sectors.
Maktedar, Shrikant
Shrikant Shivaji Maktedar, is an Assistant Professor at Department of Chemistry, National Institute of Technology (Ministry of Education, Government of India), Srinagar, J&K, India. He received B.Sc. Degree in Chemistry from Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad (Maharashtra) and M.Sc. Degree in Physical Chemistry from Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad (Maharashtra). He has completed his Ph.D. from Central University of Gujarat, Gandhinagar, India. In the last 10 years he has been working in the field of carbonaceous materials with emphasis on their multifunctional applications. Dr. Shrikant has published more than 10 research publications in peer-reviewed international journals of repute, one book chapter and two full length conference papers. He has served as reviewer for a few international journals of repute. After his joining to NIT Srinagar, he is serving as Ph.D. supervisor and has established Materials Research Laboratory at Department of Chemistry.
Dr Mohammad Aslam is an Assistant Professor at Department of Chemistry, National Institute of Technology, Srinagar (J&K). He received his first master’s degree in “Industrial Chemistry” from Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, followed by MTech in “Fuels and Combustion” from Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi and a PhD in Chemistry from National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar. Dr Aslam has also worked as Post-Doctoral Fellow/Research Associate in Chemical Conversion Division, Sardar Swaran Singh National Institute of Bio-energy), Punjab. His current research is focusing on green transportation fuels derived from second/third generation biomass feedstocks and their application for decarbonizing transportation sector.
Dr Shrikant Shivaji Maktedar is an Assistant Professor at Department of Chemistry, National Institute of Technology, Srinagar, J&K. Dr Maktedar received his B.Sc. Degree in Chemistry and M.Sc. Degree in Physical Chemistry from Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad, Maharashtra. He completed his Ph.D. at Central University of Gujarat, Gandhinagar. Over the last 10 years, Dr Maktedar has been working in the field of carbonaceous materials with emphasis on their multifunctional applications.
Dr Anil Kumar Sarma holds an an MSc Chemistry (Gauhati University, 1997), M Tech in Energy Technology (Tezpur University, 2002) and PhD in Energy (Tezpur University, 2006) with specialization in Bioenergy. Dr Sarma has worked as a research associate in IIT Guwahati and visiting researcher at Seikei University, Japan. Dr Sarma is a Scientist- E at Sardar Swaran Singh National Institute of Bio-Energy, Kapurthala. He has ongoing research projects ongoing for biomass characterization for power plant applications as a substitute of coal. His research interests include activated carbon production from waste biomass such as corncob, carbon conversion to grapheme, and uses for fuel cell electrode fabrication, super capacitor applications and more.
