Venkat Mohan

Dr S Venkata Mohan pursued his B.Tech, M.Tech and PhD from Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati, India. He was Visiting Professor at Kyoto University, Japan,  Alexander von Humboldt (AvH) Fellow at Technical University of Munich, Germany and Kyung Hee International Fellow, South Korea (2018). His research interests are on developing self-sustainable processes through a nexus approach for the production of low-carbon energy/chemicals/ materials adopting a regenerative resource management approach.

He developed technology for biohydrogen production and demonstrated an integrated biorefinery platform with a multi-product portfolio. He authored more than 400 research articles, 60 book chapters, edited 5 books and has 9 patents and supervised 31 PhDs. His publications had more than 24,000 citations with an H-index of 84 (Google Scholar). He is the recipient of the ‘Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar (SSB) Prize’ from the Government of India and elected Fellow of the National Academy of Engineering and Biotech Research Society of India. He is serving on the Editorial Board of various journals including Bioresource Technology,  Transactions of the Indian National Academy of Engineering, Environmental Technology, Materials Circular Economy, Carbon Resources Conversion, etc.