Rudrodip Majumdar

About

Rudrodip Majumdar is currently an Associate Professor in the Energy, Environment, and Climate Change Programme at NIAS w.e.f. 01 July 2025. Previously, he served as an Assistant Professor at the institute from August 2019 to June 2025. He has a PhD in Nuclear Engineering from North Carolina State University in the USA and an M.Tech. in Nuclear Engineering from IIT Kanpur. Before joining NIAS, Rudrodip worked as an Institute Postdoctoral Fellow at IIT Bombay and as a Postdoctoral Research Assistant at North Carolina State University. Rudrodip’s professional research interests centre around Sustainability, encompassing Renewable and Clean Energy, Nuclear and Plasma Fusion Energy, Industrial Applications of Plasma, and Analyses of Energy-efficient Sustainable Systems. To date, Rudrodip has published 36 research articles in reputed International Journals, 14 Chapters in Edited Volumes (Monographs) of Repute, and 23 papers in International Conference Proceedings. His recent work on the evaluation of energy transition-readiness in low-to-medium-income households in Bengaluru has been highly appreciated by the Office of the Principal Scientific Advisor to the Government of India. By nomination, Rudrodip has been selected as a Review Editor of the Energy Storage section in Frontiers in Energy Research Journal.

Employment

• National Institute of Advanced Studies Associate Professor
  2025 - Present
• National Institute of Advanced Studies Assistant Professor
  2019 - 2025
• Indian Institute of Technology Bombay Institute Postdoctoral Fellow
  2016 - 2019
• North Carolina State University Post Doctoral Researcher
  2015 - 2016

Education

• North Carolina State University Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
  2011 - 2015
• Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur Master of Technology (M.Tech.)
  2009 - 2011
• West Bengal University of Technology Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.)
  2005 - 2009

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (67)

• A Methodological Framework for Strategic Electricity Generation Planning in India: Assessing Resource Adequacy Through Probability Risk Metrics
  Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering 2026 DOI: 10.1007/978-981-95-3389-3_32
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• Evaluation of Energy Transition Readiness in the Residential Cooking Sector Among the Low and Medium-Income Households in Bengaluru
  Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering 2026 DOI: 10.1007/978-981-95-3389-3_31
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• Hydrogen Supply Chain Effectiveness: Conceptualizing Uncertainties Through Genetic Simulations
  AI and Sustainability for Global Security [Advances in Computational Intelligence and Robotics (ACIR) Series] 2026 DOI: 10.4018/979-8-3373-1077-0.ch005
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• Nondegradable Waste Incursion, Environment and Ecology: A Case of Densely Populated Urban Settings in India
  Geospatial Science for Urban Ecosystems - Insights from India and Beyond (The Urban Book Series) 2026 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-07155-2_10
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• Geospatial Analysis of Land-Use and Land-Cover Changes in the Sikkim Himalaya, and Insights for Sustainable Future
  2026 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-12737-2_6
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• Experimental Study on the Adsorption Behaviour of Molecular Sieve-3A at Various Charging Temperatures
  Proceeding of Proceedings of the 28th National and 6th International ISHMT-ASTFE Heat and Mass Transfer Conference December 9-12, 2025, IIT Jodhpur, Karwar-342030, Jodhpur (Rajasthan), India 2026 DOI: 10.1615/ihmtc-2025.1770
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• Investigation of Stratification Performance in Oil-Based and Water-Based Cylindrical Thermal Storages for Industrial Applications
  Volume 3: Advances in Thermal Technologies; Advances in Semiconductor Manufacturing; Clean Energy Technologies & Systems; Cyber Physical Systems + AI / ML 2025 DOI: 10.1115/imece-india2025-159333
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• Techno-Economic analysis of solar thermal seasonal thermochemical storage for Indian Himalayan cities
  Applied Thermal Engineering 2025 DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2025.126090
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• Energy efficiency and circularity: insights from adoption trends of washing machines, critical materials demand, and responsible use strategies
  Energy Efficiency in Critical Times: Security, Economics, and Transition 2025 DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-443-28949-1.00001-1
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• Assessing water consumption in Indian thermal power plants and parametric strategy for optimal usage: An explanatory approach using machine learning algorithms
  Water Use Efficiency, Sustainability and The Circular Economy 2025 DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-443-26749-9.00018-1
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