Aniket S. Ambekar
Postdoctoral researcher
Eindhoven University of Technology
Department
Department of chemical engineering and chemistry
Contact information
Room
(building - room): Helix – STW 0.21
Email address
a.s.ambekar@tue.nl
Key expertises
Multiphase Flows, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Porous Media, Packed Bed Reactors
About me
I obtained a Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Pune, followed by a Master's degree in Energy Engineering from the National Institute of Technology Trichy. After which, I completed my PhD from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, where I focused on understanding the fundamentals of pore- and particle-scale multiphase flows in porous media and packed bed reactors. Following my PhD, I began my post-doctoral journey as a Maria Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship at Eindhoven University of Technology and Technical University of Munich.
About my research
My current research project is on electrochemical reactors for sustainable alkane dehydrogenation. The ambition of the project is to develop advanced computational fluid dynamics for electrochemical reactor to optimize the non-oxidative dehydrogenation of short-chain alkanes. I will emphasize on up-scaling and the development of novel reactor designs with optimized geometries by incorporating detailed mechanisms of mass and heat transfer, electrochemical transport coupled to the reaction kinetics in the computational model. This work will bridge the gap between material science advancements and practical reactor engineering, supporting the transition to a sustainable, CO2-neutral chemical industry.
Academic career
Bachelor
2009-2013: University of Pune, India
Master
2014-2016: National Institute of Technology Trichy, India
PhD
2016-2022: Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India, under the supervision of Prof. Vivek V. Buwa
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Researcher
2022-2024: Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands and Technical University of Munich, Germany, under the supervision of Prof. J.A.M. Kuipers and Prof. O. Hinrichsen
Postdoctoral Researcher
2024 Onwards: Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands, under the supervision of Prof. J.A.M. Kuipers
Awards and scientific honors
Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis Award (3rd Position), 2024, by the 16th International Conference on Gas–Liquid and Gas–Liquid–Solid Reactor Engineering
Shah-Schulman Award 2023, for the best Phd Thesis in the area of interface and collide sciences, by the Indian Institute of chemical Engineers
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Grant, 2022, by the European Union
Distinction in Doctoral Research, 2022 by the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
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