Group Members

Current Group Members

Principle Investigator

Principle Investigator

Dr. Rohit Srivastava

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. Harjinder Singh


Dr Harjinder Singh obtained his B.Sc. followed by M.Sc. in Chemistry(2018) from Kurukshetra University, Haryana, India and recently he has been awarded PhD in Chemistry (Material Science) at the Department of Chemistry, Central University of Punjab, India in April 2023. His research interests are design and fabrication of economically and environmentally benign electrolyser system for the clean Hydrogen production. He is working as Postdoctoral Fellow with Dr Rohit Srivastava in the Project titled "Design and Development of Highly Efficient Electrolyzer System for Green Hydrogen Generation" funded by United States-India Science & Technology Endowment Fund (USISTEF). 

E-mail: harjinder.singh@spt.pdpu.ac.in


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.



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