Curriculum vitae
Research experience
Sept 2026 – present
Postdoctoral researcher · LRESE, EPFL
Multiphysics modelling towards efficiency and stability improvement of gas-fed CO2 electrolysis (Prof. Sophia Haussener).
June 2021 – Aug 2026
Doctoral assistant · LRESE, EPFL
Quantitative assessment of transport limitations in CO2 electrolyser systems (Prof. Sophia Haussener).
Jan – June 2020
Research assistant · IIT Delhi
Reduced-order state-of-charge model for Li-ion cells, Thermofluids & Energy Systems Lab.
May 2018 – Nov 2019
M.S. research scholar · IIT Delhi
Parallel lattice Boltzmann solver for microfluidic droplet flows.
Education
2021 – 2026
Ph.D. Energy Sciences · EPFL, Lausanne
2018 – 2019
M.S. (R) Thermal Engineering · IIT Delhi
GPA 10/10, Gold Medal
2013 – 2017
B.Tech. Mechanical Engineering · IIT Gandhinagar
GPA 8.8/10
Teaching & supervision
Autumn 2021, 2023, 2025
Teaching assistant · Solar Energy Conversion Devices and Plants (ME-468), EPFL
Graduate course on solar fuels (photoelectrochemistry, photocatalysis, solar thermochemistry), solar electricity (PV and concentrated solar power) and solar heat, with computational and laboratory projects.
Spring 2023
Teaching assistant · Advanced Heat Transfer (ME-465), EPFL
Graduate course on radiative, conductive and convective heat transfer, with emphasis on Monte Carlo and other computational methods for coupled problems.
Feb – May 2023
Supervisor · Master's semester project, LRESE, EPFL
“Modeling planar electrodes for CO2 electro-reduction: comparing 1D and 2D models”: 1D Nernst–Planck and 2D Navier–Stokes / convective-transport COMSOL models of planar CO2-reduction electrodes.
Awards
2021
EPFLglobaLeaders doctoral fellowship
Marie Skłodowska-Curie, Horizon 2020
2020
Gold Medal, M.S. Thermal Engineering, IIT Delhi
2017
Best poster award, IIT Kanpur
Skills
Modelling
Coupled nonlinear transportPorous electrodesIon-exchange & bipolar membranesTransient & degradation modelsParameter calibrationSensitivity analysis
Programming & tools
PythonC/C++ & MPIFortranMATLABCOMSOL MultiphysicsAnsys Fluent