Group Members
Current Group Members
Principle Investigator
Assistant Professor
School of Petroleum Technology,
Pandit Deendayal Energy University Gandhinagar-382421
Gandhinagar, Gujarat
E-mail: rohit.s@spt.pdpu.ac.in
Group Members
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Dr. Thamaraichelvan
Thamaraichelvan was recently appointed as the Post Doctoral Fellow in our lab under the project entitled "Design and Development of Highly Efficient Electrolyzer System for Green Hydrogen Generation" funded by USISTEF. He did his doctoral studies at the Central University of Karnataka, India. He has expertise in the field of Electrochemical energy storage devices coupled with power production with hydrogen fuel Generation and developing unconventional molecular electrocatalysts for small molecule redox reactions. He pursued his Masters (M.Sc) in Chemistry from The American College, Madurai, India.
E-mail: Thamarai.Chelvan@spt.pdpu.ac.in
Mobile:+91 9790002700
PhD Scholar
Avani Goswami
Avni obtained her bachelor’s and master’s degree in Chemistry(2017) from Saurashtra University, India and currently she is in her first year of PhD at the School of Petroleum Technology, PDPU. While working for Norway based European Mud Company (EMCAS) her main research interest lies in the direction of Drilling fluids and additives used in Oil & Gas Industry. Her doctoral research investigates the use of nanotechnology to develop drilling fluids under the guidance of Dr Rohit Shrivastava.
E-mail: avni.gphd20@spt.pdpu.ac.in
PhD Scholar
Sneha Sandeep Lavate
Sneha is working as JRF on Shell Energy India Private Limited (SEIPL) funded project and persuing Ph.D. She earned integrated M.Sc. (Nano Science and Technology) from School of Nano Science and Technology, Shivaji University, Kolhapur. She is currently involved to design and developed of advance Nano-hybrid material as electro/photocatalyst for Hydrogen production and CO2 reduction into green fuels. She was awarded SHODH fellowship by DST government of Gujarat.
E-mail: sneha.lphd20@spt.pdpu.ac.in
PhD Scholar
Hari Pavan Yalamati
Hari Pavan obtained Bachelor's (B.Tech) in Mechanical engineering from Bonam Venkata Chalamayya Engineering college Andra Pradesh and Masters (M.Tech) in Pipeline Engineering from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (JNTU), Kakinada. His current research focus on design and development of Hydrogen based fuel cell and low cost electrolyzer system for green hydrogen production.
E-mail: hari.yphd21@spt.pdpu.ac.in
PhD Scholar
Anuj Jain
Anuj Jain obtained M.Sc. from IIT Mandi. His current research focus on development of low cost electrocatalyst for green hydrogen generation from sea water.
E-mail: anuj.jphd22@sot.pdpu.ac.in
JRF
Neha Choudhary
Neha obtained her bachelor's degree from Jamshedpur Womens College, Affiliated to Kolhan University, and Master's degree from Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), Vellore. Currently, she is enrolled as a Junior Research Fellow (JRF) with Dr. Rohit Srivastava in the Project titled "Design and Development of Highly Efficient Electrolyzer System for Green Hydrogen Generation" funded by the United States -India Science & Technology Endowment Fund (USISTEF).
E-mail: neha.choudhary@spt.pdpu.ac.in
M.Tech
Kanchan Rathore: Kanchan completed Bachelor of Engineering (B.E) in Petrochemical Engineering from Samrat Ashok Technological Institute,Vidisha (M.P.) in the year 2020 . She is currently pursuing Master of Technology (M.Tech) in Petroleum Engineering. Her dissertation topic focuses on "Machine learning approach for eludicidating/predicting the role of photo/electro catalysts in hydrogen generation process". Her area of research interest is Machine learning approach, Green Hydrogen generation and CO2 reduction.
National & International Collaborations
Dr. Bishnu Bastakoti, North Carolina Agriculture and Technical State University, USA.
Prof. Dmitry Yakhvarov, Federal Research Center Kazan Scientific Center of Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia.
Dr. Pei Meng Woi, University of Malaya, Malaysia.
Prof. Son Do Ngoc, Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, Vietnam.
Dr. Ajay Kumar, IIT Tirupati.
Dr. Hema Srivastava, IIT (ISM) Dhanbad.