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Makarand Ghangrekar

Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, National Institute of Technology, Puducherry, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

ORCID iD 0000-0002-0691-9873
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Prof. Makarand Madhao Ghangrekar is Director, National Institute of Technology, Puducherry and Professor in Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of technology Kharagpur, India. He is Fellow Indian National Academy of Engineering, Member European Academy of Sciences and Arts, Member ASCE. He was former Head of School of Environmental Science and Engineering and also PK Sinha Centre for Bioenergy and Renewable. He had been visiting Scientist to Ben Gurion University, Israel and University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, under Marie Curie fellowship by European Union. He also worked as Visiting Professor at University of Applied Sciences, Augsburg, Germany. He has been working in the field of anaerobic wastewater treatment, bioenergy recovery during wastewater treatment using microbial fuel cells and bio-electrochemical systems. He is recognized worldwide in scientific community for his research contribution in the development of bio-electrochemical processes and his research group stands among the top two research labs in the world in terms of scientific publications. The first of its kind MFC based onsite toilet waste treatment system ‘Bioelectric toilet’ developed by him received wide publicity in electronic and print media.

He has guided 30 Ph.D. Research Scholars and 65 Master students’ projects. He has contributed 306 research papers in journals of international repute, and contributed 86 book chapters. His research work has been presented in more than 300 conferences in India and abroad. He has authored a book ‘Wastewater to Water’ published by Springer and two edited books by Wiley VCH (i) Microconsituents in Wastewater and (ii) Microbial Electrochemical Technologies.

He has delivered invited lectures in the various reputed universities in the world to name a few UiT, Narvik Norway; TU Delft, Netherlands; Newcastle upon Tyne, UK; University of Bremen, Germany; University of Tartu, Estonia; University of California, Berkeley, USA; Hong Kong University, etc. He has received recognition of his research contribution by getting elected as Fellow, INAE; VAISWIK award 2020, Member ASCE; received Swachha Bharat Award 2017 by Government of India; Gandhian Young Technology Innovation awards; National Design Award; Best paper Awards by Institution of Engineers, India. Since, 2022 he is inducted as Member European Academy of Sciences and Arts.

Employment

  • National Institute of Technology, Puducherry Director
    2024 - 2029
  • Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur Professor
    2004 - Present
  • Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

Education

  • Indian Institute of Technology Bombay PhD
    1992 - 1996

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Publications (95)