The Schedule

Speakers and Talk Titles:

Abhijit Chatterjee, Professor, IIT Bombay

Dynamic Synergistic Cooperation Between Au and Pt During CO Oxidation

John Mondal, Senior Scientist, CSIR IICT

Advancing the Fundamental Understanding on Design, Synthesis and Catalytic Applications of Functional Porous-Organic-Polymer (POP)

Dinesh Jagadeesan, Associate Professor, IIT Palakkad

Chemical Reactivity of Defects in Solids

Paresh Dhepe, Senior Principal Scientist, CSIR NCL

Understanding the Depolymerization of Lignin into Value-Added Chemicals

Abinaya Sampath, Assistant Professor, IIT Gandhinagar

Mechanistic Insights into Hydrogen Production from Formic Acid Decomposition over Supported Pd Alloy Catalysts

Speakers and Talk Titles:

Rajesh Kumar Upadhyay, Professor, IIT BHU

Development of Membrane Reformer for On-Site Generation of Ultra-Pure Hydrogen

Kaustav Niyogi, Marie Curie Research Fellow, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Hierarchical Multiscale Analysis of Gas Diffusion Electrodes in CO2 Electroreduction

Raghvendra Gupta, Associate Professor, IIT Guwahati

Transport Processes in Multiphase Microreactors

Sanjay Mahajani, Professor, IIT Bombay

Process Intensification through Multifunctional Reactors

Panneerselvam Ranganathan, Associate Professor, NIT Calicut

Design and Scale-up of Rotating Packed Bed for CO2 Capture

Shauvik De, Researcher, Shell

Novel Electrified Reactor Concepts

Speakers and Talk Titles:

Srishti Gupta, Application Scientist, BASF, Mumbai

Machine Learning Accelerated First-Principles Study Of The Hydrodeoxygenation Of Glycerol To Propanediols

Divesh Bhatia, Associate Professor, IIT Delhi

Development and Mechanistic Insights into Dual Functional Passive NOx Adsorbers and NOx Reduction Catalysts

Ananth Govind Rajan, Assistant Professor, IISc

Automated Microkinetic Modeling of CO2 Reduction Pathways using Machine Learned Activation Barriers

Prakash D Vaidya, Professor, ICT Mumbai

Kinetics of Reforming of Biomass Surrogates for Hydrogen Production

Vinod Janardhanan, Professor, IIT Hyderabad

Kinetic Modeling of Methane Rich Synthetic Biogas Reforming on Ni Catalyst

Speakers and Talk Titles:

Rama Venkatesan, General Manager, Shell

Applications of Reactor Engineering in Shell

Kumaresan Thangaraj, R&D Manager (Eco-Innovation and Sustainability), Saint Gobain Research

Reaction Regimes & Rate Controlling Step- Design and Control of Industry Scale Reactor

Rohini Gupta, Innovation Manager, NAO- Network for  Asian Open Research, BASF

Catalysis Driven Innovations at BASF for Net Zero Growth

Bhuvaneswari Sridhar, Associate Vice President, Pfizer

Advancing Reaction Engineering - Leveraging Predictive Modeling Tools for Enhanced Process Efficiency

Sharad Lande, Assistant Vice-President ( R&D), Reliance Industries Ltd.

Successful Journey of Next Generation RELOX Catalyst Commercialization for PET Resin Production: “ Make in India” Initiative

Speakers and Talk Titles:

Gargi Das, Professor, IIT Kharagpur

Process Intensification in Multiphase Meso-Scale Reactors by Tuning the Flow Hydrodynamics

Amol A. Kulkarni, Chief Scientist, CSIR NCL

Reaction Engineering of Continuous Flow Aromatic Nitration

Vikrant Verma, Assistant Professor, IIT Delhi

Coarse-Grained CFD Modeling of a Gas-Solid Reactor

Nageswara Rao Peela, Professor, IIT Guwahati

Optofluidic Microreactors for Green Hydrogen Production

Shashank S. Tiwari, Researcher - Fluid Flow, Shell

Particle Resolved-Computational Fluid Dynamics Modeling of Fixed Bed Reactors

Speakers and Talk Titles:

Tarak Mondal, Assistant Professor, IIT Ropar

Transforming Biomass: Advanced Pathways to Value-Added Chemicals and Fuels

Vinod C. Prabhakaran, Senior Principal Scientist & Professor (AcSIR), CSIR NCL Pune

Novel Catalyst Developments for Reverse Water Gas Shift Reaction

Ojus Mohan, Assistant Professor, IIT Bombay

Computational Catalysis for Sustainability: Fuels from Carbon Dioxide and Methane

Vishal Agarwal, Associate Professor, IIT Kanpur

Novel Molten Catalysts for CO2-free Production of H2 from Methane Pyrolysis

Rachit Khare, Group Leader, Catalysis Research Center, Technical University of Munich, Germany

Electrochemical Hydrogenation and Carbon-Carbon Coupling at Metal Surfaces

Shelaka Gupta, Assistant Professor, IIT Hyderabad

Theory Guided Design of Catalytic Materials for the Sustainable Production of Fuels and Chemicals