Abhishek Asthana
Hallam Energy, Sheffield Hallam University, United Kingdom
Biography
Dr Abhishek Asthana (CEng, MIET, FHEA, PhD) is Reader in Energy Engineering and the Director of Hallam Energy, the energy research group at Sheffield Hallam University (SHU). In 2009, he co-founded Hallam Energy and has since led and delivered more than 50 projects of industrial energy research, consultancy and knowledge transfer. He has won £3.5 million funding for SHU, co-authored 37 scientific papers and 1 book, invented 4 patents and developed 5 commercial software packages. He is the course director for BEng Energy Engineering and MEng and BEng Chemical Engineering programmes at the university. In 2015, he established a Doctoral Training Alliance (DTA) in Energy to train PhD students conducting energy research. The DTA has now grown to 90 PhD students and 180 Supervisors across 19 British Universities in the University Alliance, UK, and Abhishek is currently its Deputy Director. He also recently led the alliance to success in winning €6.5 Million funding from the European Commission’s Marie SkÅ‚odowska-Curie Actions COFUND to further expand the DTA programme.
Abstract
Abstract : World markets for conventional and advanced biofuels over the next five years