Ojus Mohan | CARES Lab | IIT Bombay

Dr. OJUS MOHAN

Assistant Professor
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB). Prior to joining IITB I worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering at the University of Alberta, Canada. I hold a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore. My research interest includes rational design of sustainable, more efficient, and thermodynamically stable catalytic materials, screening of potential materials, and design of novel catalysts by performing state-of-the-art quantum mechanical simulations and multi-scale modeling techniques.

Postdoctoral Supervisor: Prof. Samir H. Mushrif

Ph.D. Supervisors: Prof. Xu Rong, Prof. Claude Guet

Experience

Computational Methods in Catalysis (CL501) - Aug 2023
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India (May 2022 – till date)
- - - Course Instructor
      Computational Methods in Catalysis (CL501) - Aug 2025

Fundamentals of Heat and Mass Transfer (CL242) - Jan 2025

Fundamentals of Heat and Mass Transfer (CL242) - Jan 2024
Computational Methods in Catalysis (CL501) - Aug 2023
Heat Transfer (CL246) - Jan 2023

- - - Laboratory in-charge
      Chemical Engineering Lab IV (CL433) - Aug 2024
      Chemical Engineering Lab. II (CL333) - Aug 2022
    - Departmental Duties
      Faculty Advisor (BTech Chemical Engineering 2024-28 batch)
      Department UG Committee (DUGC) Secretary (2024-)
      Department TA Coordinator (2024-)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Alberta, Canada (May 2021 – May 2022)
Graduate Research Assistant, School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Nanyang Technological University Singapore (2016 July – 2020 July)
Teaching Faculty, Mechanical Engineering Dept., National Institute of Technology, Calicut (2015 July – 2016 May)
- - - Course Instructor
      Thermodynamics (ME 2014, Semester 4), batch of 80 students
      Thermal Engineering II (ME 4002, Semester 7), batch of 85 students
    - Laboratory in-charge
      Heat transfer (ME3091), Fluids Mechanics and Fluid Machinery (ME2092) and C Programming (ZZ1004)

Graduate Teaching Assistant, Mechanical Engineering Department, National Institute of Technology, Calicut (2013 Aug – 2015 May)

Education

Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, 2016 - 2021

M.Tech. Thermal Sciences, National Institute of Technology (NIT) Calicut, India, 2013 - 2015

B.Tech. Mechanical Engineering, Govt. Engineering College Barton Hill (GECB), Trivandrum, India (Under Kerala Technological University), 2009 - 2013

Academic Awards and Honors

Received Young Faculty Award, IIT Bombay, 2022
Awarded University of Alberta Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2021-2022
Research Award Recipient: Invited twice to the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Alberta, Canada, 2018 & 2019–20
Awarded NTU research scholarship to cover Ph.D. studies in Singapore, 2016
Gold medal from NIT Calicut for ranking 1st in M.Tech. Thermal Sciences batch, 2015
University Rank in B.Tech. Mechanical Engineering at Kerala University, 2013

Dissertation and Thesis

Ph.D. “Catalytic conversion of carbon dioxide to hydrocarbons”, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 2021. Advisor: Prof. Xu Rong, Co-advisor: Prof. Claude Guet
M.Tech. “Theoretical and experimental analysis on CO2 removal in biomass gasification”, National Institute of Technology Calicut, 2015. Advisor: Prof. C. Muraleedharan

Research/Teaching Training

Supervisory HSE Professional Development course on Health, Safety, and Environment at the University of Alberta, 2022.
Tutor Training course at the University of Alberta, 2021.
University Teaching for Teaching Assistants, eight module course at the Nanyang Technological University Singapore, 2017.
Research Integrity course module in Engineering and Technology track, Nanyang Technological University Singapore, 2016.

Personal

Ojus was born in Kollam district, Kerala, and completed his schooling there. He is married to Akshara Soman, who is currently working as an AI Engineer at Sieve, a Y Combinator-backed startup based in San Francisco. Akshara holds a Ph.D. and a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore.

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