Professor Sankar Bhattacharya
- Graduate Certificate in Higher Education, Monash University, 2010
- Hub Director
- Monash University
Professor Bhattacharya came to academia in mid-2009 after two decades in the industry – at the International Energy Agency in France, Anglo Coal Australia and CRC for Lignite in Australia, and Development Consultants in India. He commissioned the first CFBC in Australia, led the first Oxygen-blown HTW and Transport gasifier trials of Victorian brown coal, and worked as a commissioning engineer for coal-fired plants in India. Since 2012, he has supervised six post-doctoral researchers and 36 students to PhD completion. They are based in industry and academia in Australia, Bangladesh, China, Germany, India, Malaysia, Sweden, Thailand, the UK, and the USA. He currently leads a group of 16 PhD students and researchers working on critical minerals extraction from wastes, gasification of solid fuels, processing of wastes and CO2 to liquid fuel and chemicals, Chemical Looping for CO2 capture, and high-value platform chemicals production from biomass.
Professor Bhattacharya believes in the near to intermediate-term application of engineering research. Most of his research projects are, therefore, affiliated with industries in Australia and overseas. Professor Bhattacharya has presented extensively at academic and industry conferences in Australia and overseas and advises research bodies and governments nationally and internationally.
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