A Bit About Dr. N. Sendhil Kumar

 Dr.Sendhil Kumar Natarajan is working as an Assistant Professor & Head in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, NIT Puducherry. He did B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering and M.Tech., in Energy Technology in Pondicherry Engineering College in the year of 2001 and 2003. Later, he joined as a Research Scholar, at IIT Madras, under Half Time Teaching and Research Assistantship (HTRA Scheme – Full time), MHRD scholarship and obtained his Ph.D in the area of solar energy in the year of 2008. After his Ph.D., he joined as Senior R&D Engineer, at CSEM-UAE, Ras Al Khaimah, UAE. Later, he joined as a Post Doctoral Research Fellowship at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom under European Union Project. He got young faculty award and outstanding researcher award in the field of Solar Thermal. He published 30 International Journals and 40 National and International conferences in the area of energy. Two of his research publication cited as the hottest article in the science direct. Apart from this, four of his International journal about receivers got more than 100 citations and the total citations of 921nos. Based on his research work, he filed four patents in the area of solar energy. He has three funded projects (One completed and two on-going). One is from DST-SERB as a PI for Concentrating Solar Systems, the second one is from DST-UKIERI as a Co-PI for fuel cell research, and the third one is from BRICS as a Co-PI for Solar Based Biomass Conversion. His research area is Solar Thermal system and CSP system, CPV, Integration of high temperature solar thermal systems, Heat transfer and fluid flow and Fuel cells.