Priyadarshini Karve

Priyadarshini Karve
Residence
Nationality Indian
Fields Renewable Energy, Sustainable development
Institutions Appropriate Rural Technology Institute
Alma mater University of Pune
Notable awards Ashden Award for Renewable Energy, Prof. Yashwantrao Kelkar Youth Award, World Technology Award

Priyadarshini Karve (born 1971) is an Indian physicist and inventor. She is currently the Managing Director at Samuchit EnviroTech Pvt Ltd (SET) (2005 onwards), Pune, and also Chairman of the Board of Directors, Nexus Carbon for Development Singapore, a not-for-profit international alliance of NGOs and social enterprises (2011 onwards). She is also a visiting faculty at the Symbiosis School for Liberal Arts (Symbiosis International University) and her courses are mainly related to Sustainable Development, Climate Change, Impact of Science and Technology on History, renewable energy, sustainable development, and other social and educational issues (207 onwards). She is a Co-Editor, Shaikshanik Sandarbh Bimonthly, a periodical on Science and Education. She is an honorary faculty for a number of local, national and international workshops and short term courses related to science education, sustainable development, renewable energy technology, energy policy, energy and gender, climate change, etc. (2000 onwards).

Education and Career

Karve did her M.sc. (Physics with Specialisation: Energy Studies, LASER), University of Pune, 1993, and later pursued her Ph.D. (Physics) from the University of Pune in 1998. As a student, she worked on a three-month project to create compact fuel for stoves used in rural areas using sawdust and sand. Her experience with the sooty, inefficient stoves that rural women dealt with on a daily basis spurred her to join the Appropriate Rural Technology Institute, an NGO based in Maharashtra, where she experiments with cook stove designs and biomass fuels.[1] She also endeavoured to develop a sustainable channel for people in rural areas to access biomass energy technologies. She was part of the team that developed the biowaste-to-charcoal technology, which won the Ashden Award for Renewable Energy in 2002.[2]

Honors and Awards

Publications

References

  1. "ARTI". ARTI. Retrieved 14 October 2014.
  2. "Science of the home and hearth". The Hindu. Retrieved 14 October 2014.
  3. "Dr. Priyadarshini Karve". Symbiosis School for Liberal Arts. Retrieved 14 October 2014.
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