Prof. (Dr) Dharam Buddhi

Vice Chancellor,The Uttaranchal University

 
 
 
 

Professor (Dr) Dharam Buddhi, an alumnus of IIT Delhi (PhD Energy Systems) and Ex-Professor, School of Energy and Environmental Studies, Devi Ahilya University, Indore and became University full Professor in the year 2000. Dr Buddhi has also worked in the industry as a Director (Technical), Chief Technical Advisor & Head R & D and also transferred the technology.

His areas of Research includes Renewable Energy, Energy Conservation, Energy Storage and Green Buildings. He has been an international consultant to the Asian Development Bank during 2016-2018 for a Green Power project in Sri Lanka.

Presently, Prof (Dr) Buddhi is the Indian Coordinator of the Indo-Australia collaboration Project on “Thermal Energy Storage for Food/Grain Drying with CST/RE to Lower Pollution”. He was a member of the ‘Program Advisory Committee’, on Technology System Development, Department of Science and Technology, GOI.

He has also been a Visiting Professor at UPC Barcelona, Spain, Mie University, Japan, Kun Shan University, Tainan City, Taiwan and Auckland University New Zealand.

He was on the Editorial Board of “Energy Conversion and Management”, an Elsevier International Journal and is a Reviewer of severally globally renowned Research Journal and a member of numerous professional bodies. He has guided more than 90 M. Tech students theses.

He guided 16 research scholars leading to PhD. Degree in the field of Heat Transfer, Solar Energy, Green Buildings, Thermal Load Management, Fuel Cell, Cold Chain Solutions & RAC and has published/presented more than 126 research papers and reviews and 68 patents to his credit out of which a few are granted.

He has international academic and industrial exposure of the U.K, Portugal, Germany, Italy, Spain, France, Switzerland, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, Taiwan, Sri Lanka, Australia and the US.

He also has a very high number of citations in 10000+ publications. As per the report of the Government of India, International Comparative Research Base (2009-14) by the Department of Science & Technology, his paper was ranked number one.