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Jitendra Sangwai

Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

ORCID iD 0000-0001-8931-0483

About

Dr. Jitendra S. Sangwai is currently working as a Professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras. He did his Ph.D. in chemical engineering with Professor Santosh K Gupta at IIT Kanpur and M.Tech. in chemical engineering with Prof. Sirshendu De from IIT Kharagpur. Dr. Sangwai worked with Schlumberger, an oil and gas multi-national company, for a brief period before moving to academia. Dr. Sangwai’s research interest lies mainly in the field of carbon capture and sequestration (CCS), gas hydrates, upstream oil and gas engineering, etc. He has published approximately 200 peer-reviewed international journal papers and 150 conference publications. Dr. Sangwai has filed 25 Indian patents and 18 international patents. He has graduated 25 PhD degree students, most of whom are working as faculty in IITs, and Institute of National Importance.

Dr Sangwai has been recognized with various awards. The Government of India awarded him the National Geoscience Award for outstanding research contributions in oil, natural gas, and gas hydrates, as well as two National Awards for the Technology Innovation. He has also received the Society of Petroleum Engineers' Distinguished Achievement Award for the Petroleum Engineering Faculty of the South Asia and Pacific region and Regional Service Award. IIT Madras bestowed him with the Young Faculty Recognition Award for excellence in teaching and research, the Institute Research and Development Awards (both at Early- and Mid-Career level), and the Shri. J. C. Bose Patent Award. Intellectual Ventures awarded him with six invention awards. He has been recognized as Top 3% Highly Cited American Chemical Society (ACS) Authors from India, ACS’s Energy & Fuels Recognition to Most Cited Articles, and Top 1% Highly Cited Author of the Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research. ACS journal, Journal of Chemical and Engineering Data, has highlighted him as ‘One among 25 Emerging Investigators’ on the journal’s cover page and in the Editorial of the issue. Dr Sangwai also serves as an Associate Editor of the prestigious journal, Energy & Fuels, published by the American Chemical Society. He is a Fellow of Indian National Academy of Engineering (FNAE) and The National Academy of Sciences, India (FNASc).

Employment

  • Indian Institute of Technology Madras Professor
    2010 - Present

Education

  • Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur PhD
    2003 - 2006

Projects & Funding

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Publications (259)