Anil Kumar SarmaDr Anil Kumar Sarma, is a Scientist-E/Director at Sardar Swaran Singh National Institute of Bio-Energy (Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, Govt of India), Punjab, India. He is an MTech in Energy Technology (2002) and PhD in Energy from Tezpur Univrsity (2006). He remains guest faculty at Tezpur University, Research Associate at IIT Guwahati (2007-2008), visiting researcher at Seikei University, Japan (2008-2009), joined and left from faculty at RGIPT before joining his present position at Sardar Swaran Singh National Institute of BioEnergy. He has been working as a scientist at SSS-NIBE since July 2009. He has been rendering his duty as Head of Office at SSS-NIBE and coordinator for Indo US collaboration under SAGE. He delivered invited lectures in several platforms such as training programs and conferences of national and international stature. He was awarded with Bharat Jyoti Award (14th Feb,2012) by India International Friendship Society, for Meritorious Services, Outstanding performance and Remarkable role in his field. He was selected as a member of sustainability and development by the Japanese Society. Recently he has been appointed as the honorary Research Advisor, by Nan Yang Academy of Sciences (NAAS), Singapore and as a college member for GCRF (UK). He is also a reviewer of renewable and bioenergy projects for several bodies of Govt of India and remains a key catalyst of the Institute since the inception. His frontier areas of interest include biodiesel production and catalysis: Biocrude oil production, fractional distillation and characterization including application in IC engines leading to biorefinery development from oilseeds, catalyst development from agrowaste for fuel additive synthesis. He has published over 50 publications in reputed journals and proceedings which are readily available in google scholar citations. He has guided 4 PhD, 4 post-doctoral fellows, 15+ Master’s students for their dissertation works. Read More Read Less