Tapas Kumar MallickProf. Tapas Kumar Mallick is currently the Chair in Clean Technologies (Renewables) within the Environment and Sustainability Institute (ESI) and leads the Solar Energy Research Group at the University of Exeter, in the United Kingdom. He is Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Advisor to the Build Solar Ltd., a spin-out company from the University of Exeter. He is also Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Mechanical and Energy Engineering at the Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, in Saudi Arabia, and Adjunct Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India. Prof. Mallick has lead several international projects, including the UK-India project “BioCPV”, empowering 24/7 electricity to 46 households in rural Indian villages. Prof. Mallick is also the Section Editor for Energy Sources in the Journal of Energies. He received the British Indian Award for Services to Education in 2016, and Cornwall Sustainability Award in 2018. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) and of the World Society of Sustainable Energy Technologies, FWSSET. He has published over 450 research articles, holds two patents on solar technology, has successfully supervised 34 PhD candidates to completion, has delivered over 50 keynote speeches around the world, and has acted as expert panel chair/member for many organisations in the UK and globally. Read More Read Less