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Dr. Nanda Kishore Assistant Professor
	Contacts: Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati Guwahati - 781039 INDIA Phone : +91 361 2582276 (O) Fax : +91 361 2582291 e-mail : nkishore@iitg.ernet.in
Education • 2003 - 2008: Ph.D. (Chemical Engineering) ♦ Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur-208016, Uttar Pradesh, India. • 2001 - 2003: M.Tech. (Chemical Engineering) ♦ Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur-208016, Uttar Pradesh, India. • 1997 - 2001: B.Tech. (Chemical Engineering) ♦ Department of Chemical Engineering, University College of Technology, Osmania University, Hyderabad-500007, Andhra Pradesh, India.
Work Experience • 21 December 2009 - 31 March 2011: Brunel Research Fellow-2009 (1851 Research Fellowship Award, offered by Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851), University of Southampton, Southampton - SO17 1BJ, UK. • 11 February 2008 - 11 December 2009: Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Warangal, Andhra Pradesh-506004, India • 24 January 2003 - 30 June 2003: Senior Research Fellow, Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh - 208016, India.
Membership of Professional Bodies • Associate Member (AM097198-5), Chemical Engineering Division, The Institution of Engineers, India • Life Member (LM-43346) of Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers Fields of Specialization • Computational Fluid Flow and Heat/Mass Transfer • Transport phenomena with Bubbles, Drops and Particles in Non-Newtonian fluids • CFD Simulation of Fluidized Beds, Multiphase Flow, etc. Reviewer • Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, ACS Publications • Chemical Engineering & Technology, Wiley-VCH publications • International Journal of Modelling and Simulation, ACTA Press • Powder Technology, Elsevier publications • Journal of Applied Polymer Science, Wiley Publications
Invited Talks: • " Drag and heat transfer coefficients of unconfined, confined and multiple spheroid particles at moderate Reynolds and Prandtl numbers" in the Alumni Science Evening, Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851, London, United Kingdom (Feb. 8, 2011). • " Design of Experimental Setups for Engineering Practice: Heat Transfer Equipments" in the Short Term Training Program, DESFEP-2008 at National Institute of Technology Warangal, sponsored by the Ministry of the Human Resource and Development, Government of India (Sep. 4, 2008). • " Flow and drag phenomena of single and multiple fluid spheres in power-law liquids at moderate Reynolds numbers" in the Division of Mathematical and Information Sciences, CSIRO, Melbourne, Australia (May 26, 2008). • "Numerical investigation of drag and mass transfer phenomena of single fluid spheres in power-law liquids" in the Department of Chemical Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Warangal, Andhra Pradesh, India (Dec. 6, 2007).
Workshops / Training Programs: • Resource person in the MHRD, GOI sponsored Short Term Training Program on "Design and Experimental Setups for Engineering Practice", conducted in National Institute of Technology Warangal, Andhra Pradesh, India, September 2008. • Attended a two weeks programme on "Pedagogical Training in Engineering Education", conducted in Engineering Staff College of India (ESCI), Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India, 13-25 October 2008.
Awards and Achievements: • 1851 Research Fellowship Award 2009 (Brunel Research Fellow-2009), awarded by the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851, United Kingdom. • Chem. Eng. Res. Des. Most cited author 2006-2009, for the paper "Sedimentation in emulsions of mono-size droplets at moderate Reynolds numbers", vol. 84, issue 12A (2006) 1180-1193. • Senior Research Fellowship (SRF) from Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) for the project, "Degradation of polymer through heterogeneous catalytic depolymerisation in presence of molecular oxygen", Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Kanpur; January 2003 -June 2003.