Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IIT Roorkee) gets a new Director. President Droupadi Murmu on Wednesday approved the appointment of Professor Kamal Kishore Pant as the new director of IIT Roorkee. Prof. (Dr.) K K Pant is at present the Dean Faculty at IIT Delhi and a professor for the Department of Chemical Engineering. He is also the Petrotech (FIPI) Chair Professor at IIT Delhi.

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An alumnus of IIT Kanpur, Prof. Pant completed his B. Tech from HBTI Kanpur and his M. Tech from IIT Kanpur. He also did his Ph. D from IIT Kanpur.

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Over a long illustrious career spanning over 30 years, Professor Pant has established his name within the industrial research and academia. As one of the leading academicians of the country, Prof. Kant is working on multiple technologies of national and international import. Among them are the work on coal to methanol conversion, e-waste and plastic management, hydrogen generation, CO2 capture and conversion, biomass valorization, etc., using catalysis and reaction engineering.

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He has to his credit over 220 publications with over 11746 citations and numerous patents. He has also completed over 50 high impact projects and consulted on projects of over Rs. 1.02 billion for private as well as Government of India.

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He has many awards and accolades to his name. Among them are the prestigious Gandhian Young Technological Innovation (GYTI) award, which was conferred to him twice. He also has been awarded thrice with Dr. A V Rama Rao award for best Ph.D. supervision, Dr. S. S. Deshpande Award, Herdilia Award by Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers, and many more.

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As a professor of the Chemical Engineering, Prof. Pant teaches courses on Transport Phenomena, Advance Transport Phenomena, Advance Chemical Reaction Engineering, Plant Design and Economics, Petroleum Refinery Engineering, Petrochemical Technology, Chemical Reaction Engineering, Heterogenous Catalysis and Catalytic Reactors, and Biomass conversion and utilization.

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Professor Pant is also an Adjunct faculty at University of Saskatchewan in Canada, Joint Faculty at CRDT IIT Delhi and Honorary Faculty at University of Queensland in Australia. He would be taking over from Prof. Ajit Kumar Chaturvedi. As per report.