Explore the Humboldt Network

Dr. Sunil Kumar 

• Program: Humboldt Research Fellowship
• Selection date: March 2018
• Business address (at time of selection): National Environmental Engineering Research Institute, Nagpur, India
• Current contact address: Solid and Hazardous Waste Management Division, National Environmental Engineering Research Institute, Nagpur, India
• Area of ​​expertise: Urban Planning and Development, Landscape, Traffic, and Infrastructure Planning
• Keywords: Municipal Solid Waste Management, Next Generation Technologies, Pyrolysis, Gasification, Waste to Energy Plants
• Host: Prof. Dr. Hiroshan Hettiarachchi (United Nations University, Dresden, Germany)

Dr. Mahendra Bishnoi 

• Program: Humboldt Research Fellowship
• Selection date: March 2018
• Business address (at time of selection): National Agri-Food Biotechnology Institute (NABI), Mohali, India
• Current contact address: National Agri-Food Biotechnology Institute (NABI), Mohali, India
• Area of ​​expertise: Pharmacology
• Keywords: Thermogenesis, Energy expenditure, Sensory, Browning, TRPM8
• Host: Prof. Dr. med. Katharina Zimmermann (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany)

Dr. Trivikram Nallamilli 

• Program: Humboldt Research Fellowship
• Selection date: March 2018
• Current contact address: Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Tirupati, Tirupati, India
• Area of ​​expertise: Statistical Physics, Soft Matter, Biological Physics, Nonlinear Dynamics
• Keywords: complex coacervation, food, foam, rheology, pickering foam, texture, pol, oleogel, foam, gels
• Host: Prof. Dr. Thomas A. Vilgis (Max-Planck-Institut für Polymerforschung, Mainz, Germany)

Dr. Harshitha Barike Aiyappa 

• Program: Humboldt Research Fellowship
• Selection date: March 2018
• Business address (at time of selection): CSIR National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India
• Current contact address: Physical Chemistry Division, CSIR National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India
• Area of ​​expertise: Electrochemistry
• Keywords: Electrochemistry, Electrocatalysis, Metal Organic Framework, Nanotechnology, Carbon
• Host: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schuhmann (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany), Prof. Dr. Martin Muhler (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany)

Prof. Dr. Surender Baswana 

• Program: Humboldt Research Fellowship
• Selection date: November 2017
• Business address (at time of selection): Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur, India
• Current contact address: Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur, Kanpur, India
• Area of ​​expertise: Theoretical Computer Science
• Keywords: Graph Algorithms, Data Structures, Incremental, Dynamic Algorithms, Decremental
• Host: Prof. Dr. Friedhelm Meyer auf der Heide (Universität Paderborn, Germany)

Dr. Selvakumar Murugesan 

• Program: Humboldt Research Fellowship
• Selection date: November 2017
• Business address (at time of selection): Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, Republic of Korea
• Current contact address: Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Mangalore, India
• Area of ​​expertise: Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering
• Keywords: Biopolymers, microbial resistance, electrospun scaffold, bioactive glass
• Host: Prof. Dr. Thomas Rainer Scheibel (Universität Bayreuth, Germany)

Dr. Wahajuddin 

• Program: Humboldt Research Fellowship
• Selection date: November 2017
• Business address (at time of selection): CSIR Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow, India
• Current contact address: Pharmaceutics & Pharmacokinetics, CSIR Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow, India
• Area of ​​expertise: Pharmacology
• Keywords: Infectious disease, Therapeutic Drug Monitoring, Pharmacometrics, Clinical Pharmacology, Precision Medicine
• Host: Prof. Dr. med. Uwe Fuhr (Universität zu Köln, Germany)

Prof. Dr. Sankaran Shanmugam 

• Program: Humboldt Research Fellowship
• Selection date: November 2017
• Business address (at time of selection): Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, Chennai, India
• Current contact address: Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, Chennai, India
• Area of ​​expertise: Metallurgical, Thermal and Thermomechanical Treatment of Materials
• Keywords: UFG Al (Sc, Zr) alloys, Severe cold rolling, Atomprobe tomography, Diffusion, High resolution TEM
• Host: Prof. Dr. Joachim Mayer (Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen, Germany), Prof. Dr.-Ing. Gerhard Wilde (Universität Münster, Germany)

M.Sc. Mitavachan Hiremath 

• Program: International Climate Protection Fellowship
• Selection date: September 2017
• Business address (at time of selection): Center for Sustainability, Policy and Technology Management, Bengaluru, India
• Current contact address: Center for Sustainability, Policy and Technology Management, Bengaluru, India
• Area of ​​expertise: Energy Process Engineering
• Keywords: Carbon Capture & Storage (CCS), Climate Change Mitigation, Integrated Assessment, Renewable Energy Sources, Low Carbon Pathways
• Host: Dr. Peter Viebahn (Wuppertal Institut für Klima, Umwelt, Energie gGmbH, Germany)

Dr. Rajeshwari Dutta 

• Program: Humboldt Research Fellowship
• Selection date: July 2017
• Business address (at time of selection): Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune, India
• Current contact address: Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune, India
• Area of ​​expertise: Astronomy
• Keywords: star formation, galaxies, interstellar medium, cold gas, absorption lines
• Host: Prof. Dr. Martin Zwaan (Europäische Südsternwarte (ESO), Garching, Germany)