Photothermal Materials and Membranes for Solar-Driven Water Treatment

About

Dr. Jaydevsinh M. Gohil is currently employed as a Scientist in the Advanced Research School for Technology and Product Simulation of the Central Institute of Petrochemicals Engineering and Technology (CIPET) India. Prior to this appointment he had served as a Pool Scientist at the Laboratory for Advanced Research in Polymeric Materials CIPET Bhubaneswar (Oct. 2015 - Nov. 2016) and as an Assistant Professor at Sardar Patel University Anand India (Aug.-Oct. 2015); and also worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Western Ontario Canada (2011-2014) and at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay Mumbai India (2009-2011) sponsored by the Ontario Centers for Excellence/the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council /the BioGenerator Energy Solution Inc. Canada and IIT Bombay/DOW Chemicals Co. respectively. He has been awarded a B.Sc. degree in Applied Chemistry in 2000 and a M.Sc. degree in Plastics Technology in 2002 by Sardar Patel University; and subsequently in 2008 received a Ph.D. degree in Chemistry from Bhavnagar University while working as a Senior Research Fellow (at CSIR-CSMCRI during 2006-2008) awarded by the CSIR Govt. of India. His research interest includes materials development for membranes used in water treatment molecular separation and energy conversion devices. As of now he co-authored 32 research/review publications and 04 book chapters in reputed international platforms and edited/co-edited three books one book published by Elsevier and two books published by the American Chemical Society. Dr. Kingshuk Dutta FICS is currently employed as a Scientist in the Advanced Polymer Design and Development Research Laboratory of the Central Institute of Petrochemicals Engineering and Technology India. Prior to this appointment he had worked as an Indo-U.S. Postdoctoral Fellow at the Cornell University U.S.A. (2018-19) and as a National Postdoctoral Fellow at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur India (2016-17) both funded by the Science and Engineering Research Board Govt. of India. Earlier as a Senior Research Fellow funded by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research Govt. of India. he had carried out his doctoral study at the University of Calcutta India (2013-16). He possesses degrees in both technology (B. Tech. and M. Tech.) and science (B. Sc.) all from University of Calcutta. He was also a recipient of the prestigious Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) and National Scholarship both from the Ministry of Human Resource Development Govt. of India. His research interest lies in the fields of electrochemical photoelectrochemical and bioelectrochemical devices wastewater treatment as well as polymer blends/composites and biodegradable polymers. Until date he has contributed to 62 experimental and review papers in reputed international platforms 35 book chapters 1 patent application and many national and international presentations. In addition he has edited/co-edited four books published by Elsevier two books published by the American Chemical Society and one book published by Wiley. He is currently serving as a Review Editor for Frontiers in Nanotechnology and Frontiers in Fuels and has also served as a guest associate handling editor for Frontiers in Chemistry and a peer-reviewer for over 190 journal articles conference papers book chapters and research project proposals. He is a life member and an elected fellow of the Indian Chemical Society a life member of the International Exchange Alumni Network (U.S. Department of State) and a member of the Science Advisory Board (U.S.A.). Earlier he had held memberships of the International Association for Hydrogen Energy (U.S.A.) the International Association of Advanced Materials (Sweden) the Institute for Engineering Research and Publication (India) and the Wiley Advisors Group (U.S.A.).