Dr. Vivekanand

Dr Vivekanand recently joined and is working as Assistant Professor cum ‘Ramalingaswami Re-Entry Fellow’ (Highly prestigious fellowship from DBT-GoI) at Malaviya National Institute of Technology (MNIT), Jaipur, India. He has completed PhD from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee, India.  He  has also  been  awarded  another  highly prestigious  ‘National Doctoral Fellowship’  from All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), New Delhi and Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) Assistantship at IIT Roorkee, India. 

 

He was working as postdoctoral research scientist for 7 years in Sweden and Norway. At University of Gothenburg, Sweden he was awarded  seed  grant from  ‘The Royal Society of Arts and Sciences’  Sweden to work on low  lignin  oats. Subsequently,  he worked on ‘Biomass to Bioenergy’ projects with  premier Norwegian  Biomass  Research Group at Norwegian University of Life Science at Norway’s National Facility of Biogas. He has keen research interest and expertise in biomass (Seaweed, lignocellulose, agro-horticultural, biogenous residual materials)   pretreatment,  bioprocessing as  well  as  its  conversion for  bioenergy  applications.  He is closely  associated  with Norwegian Centre for Bioenergy Research, Norwegian Institute for Agricultural & Environmental Research (NIBIO), SLU, Cambi and TINE AS for conducting biomass-based research targeting the development and advancement of upcoming generation of biofuels.