Sustainable Energy Technology and Policies

Sudipta De is Professor at the Mechanical Engineering Department, Jadavpur University, Kolkata. He received his Ph.D. from IIT, Kharagpur and was a guest researcher at the Department of Energy Sciences, Lund University, Sweden. He was INSA (New Delhi) visiting scientist to Germany, selected faculty of Erasmus Mundus External Cooperation Window of the EU in sustainable energy. He delivered invited lectures in many programs/institutes including Indian National Clean Coal Technology Mission meeting, TU of Berlin and Munich, KTH-Stockholm, University of Stavanger, Norway etc. He received his research funding from UGC, DST of India, EU, German Research Foundation, Swedish Research Council, Research Council-Norway etc. Presently he is Coordinator/Co Principal Investigator of two EU projects. He is also closely associated with Industry chambers.

Santanu Bandyopadhyay is currently Institute Chair Professor, Department of Energy Science and Engineering, at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay). He obtained his B.Tech. (Hons.) in Energy Engineering from IIT Kharagpur in 1992, and M.Tech. and Ph.D. in Energy Systems Engineering from IIT Bombay in 1995 and 1999, respectively. His research interest includes Process Integration, Pinch Analysis, Industrial Energy Conservation, Modeling and Simulation of Energy Systems, Design and optimization of renewable energy systems, etc. Since 1994, Prof. Bandyopadhyay has been associated with and contributed towards various developmental, industrial, and research activities involving different structured approaches to process design, energy integration and conservation as well as renewable energy systems design. Prior to joining IIT Bombay, he worked for M/s Engineers India Limited, New Delhi. He is currently one of the Editor-in-Chiefs for Process Integration and Optimization for Sustainability (Springer Nature) as well as Associate Editor for Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy (Springer