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Most effective desalination membrane works 1000 times faster than present technology

–Dr. Aparna Deshpande Most of the industrial equipment used for water desalination use carbon nanotubes-based filters. As freshwater resources are limited industrial scale saltwater purification technique plays a key role globally. As most of the manufacturing sectors need fresh water as a raw material, sea water desalination is practiced on a very large scale. The …

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Sustainable solution for smooth rush-hour traffic using new simulation techniques

Dr Aparna Deshpande How about foreseeing a day where your daily drive to work place is channelized in a way so that you don’t have to pull on a red light. In a recent study, researcher from MIT have developed a machine-learning approach which ensures a smooth flowing traffic of autonomous vehicles at signalized intersection. …

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Breakdown of PET plastic possible in few hours by an enzyme

Dr. Aparna Deshpande The rapidly increasing production of disposable plastic products overwhelms the world’s ability to deal with them. Plastic pollution is most visible in developing Asian and African nations along with the developed world countries with low recycling rates. A team of researchers at Leipzig University have now discovered a highly efficient enzyme that degrades …

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Symbiotic combination of solar panels with farms & canals: The smart energy and water management

-Dr. Rohini Kitture The increasing global population accompanied with the increasing demand in energy, food, facilities, made the need for retaining and getting the maximum out of the existing inevitable. The scene of many farmers switching from conventional food farming to solar/energy farming, in the pursuit of higher return on investment, alarmed a bigger food …

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Ramanujan Prize 2021 bagged by mathematician from Ramanujan’s country

– Dr. Deepti Sidhaye From being the only girl student in her postgraduate class to now teaching a postgraduate class with a large number of girl students as a Professor in her Alma Mater, Indian Statistical Institute. From not even being aware that Mathematics could be a career option to being an idol for those …

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Team Australia comes up with solid plan for CO2 mitigation

-Dr. Richa Bobade As per the US EPA report, emissions in 2019 were 6558 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent. The current estimations of greenhouse gas emissions and global warming suggest the need to develop net carbon zero technology. Hence innovation is needed across industries to help combat emissions and decarbonize their processes. Universities and …

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Can hydrogen usage as fuel cause more global warming than CO2?

– Dr. Aparna Deshpande Hydrogen is proposed to be an effective alternate fuel with low greenhouse gas emissions. The calorific value of hydrogen makes it more energy efficient as compared to lithium-ion batteries. But when it is released in air it has a warming effect in the atmosphere. A new study done by UK government …

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Agrivoltaics: The gen-next double decker farming of energy and food.

-Dr. Rohini Kitture. Humans, the highly evolved species on the planet, always strive to develop the best of everything. Be it the invention of wheel or fire to ease few tasks or developing satellites/space stations to seek more about the universe, humans always try to conquer the limitations and explore more. This exploration sprouted in …

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Dr Smita Chaturvedi
Smita is an experimental condensed matter physicist. The quest for multifunctional materials motivates her. Smita finished her PhD from RDVV Jabalpur and BARC Mumbai in the year 2002 and worked as a research associate in IIT Mumbai and Oakland University, Michigan. Smita was awarded as a Fulbright Nehru Academic and Professional excellence fellow in 2018-19. Smita holds more than a decade of research and teaching experience. She possesses good knowledge about education system and research opportunities in India as well as abroad. Music and gardening are her mindful meditations.
Dr. Priyadarshini Karve
Dr Priyadarshini Karve has worked in the areas of household energy, decentralised waste-to-fuel technologies, climate change mitigation and adaptation, sustainable and climate-ready urbanisation, etc. She runs her own social green enterprise Samuchit Enviro Tech in Pune, focused on enabling access to sustainable products and services. She is also a co-founder of OrjaBox, a startup promoting solar thermal technologies. Dr Karve is a Founder Member of Clean Energy Access Network (CLEAN - a multi-state society of decentralised renewable energy practitioners and entrepreneurs) and Cleaner Cooking Coalition (CCC - an international organisation focused on promoting user-centric cooking energy technologies that are good for health as well as climate). She is also the National Convener of Indian Network on Ethics and Climate Change (INECC - focused on climate justice issues and working to bring people's voices in policy choices). Her work has been recognised by several national and international awards and honours.
Sanjay Khare
Sanjay Khare ,after his graduation in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, in 1986 has been associated with major Japanese & European Automotive OEMs in Indian Subcontinent for 35 years . Widely travelled across Europe & Asia , he has held positions across diverse functions of Automotive Corporations.
In his current role as Board Member and Vice President at Skoda Auto Volkswagen India , he is Chief Sustainability Catalyst to guide actions at Skoda Auto Volkswagen India along with the sister brands Audi, Porsche & Lamborghini.
He leads an active Climate Resilience program where the automotive major in India has already achieved Zero Waste to Landfill, Water Positive & Zero liquid Discharge Certification, Zero Accidents , targeting an 18.5 MW of installed Roof Top Solar plant at a single Automotive site in India in 2021 and fully Carbon Neutral Production by 2025.
Sanjay has done his Executive MBA from Management development Institute ,Gurgaon specialising in Strategy & Marketing . He has active interests in driving Cultural Change, Competency building , Human Motivation topics while adopting/ innovating the technological advancements and total quality revolution.He is also a Qualified Independent Director registered with Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Govt. of India. An active speaker on Automotive & Sustainability topics on National & International forums.
In personal life, he is an Endurance Cyclist having participated in many adventure ride expeditions . He also spends his time in developing mastery on Indian Classical Music instrument Sitar.