S Venkata Mohan

Dr S Venkata Mohan (born 1 July 1970) is an Indian engineer who has specialization in Environmental Engineering, Environmental Biotechnology, Bioenergy, Bioengineering.^[1] He was awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in 2014.^[2]^[3]^[4]

Dr.S.Venkata Mohan has received B.Tech. (1991), M.Tech. (1993) and PhD (1998) with Civil/Environmental Engineering as specialization from Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati, India. Currently, he is working as Principal Scientist in CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad since 1998. Dr. Mohan’s focal objective of research is to develop integrated and sustainable waste remediation technologies giving prime emphasis on sustainable biofuel production viz. biohydrogen (acidogenic fermentation), bioelectricity (microbial fuel cell (MFC)), etc. and resource recovery from waste through production of biobased products viz., bioplastics, fatty acids, biodiesel, etc. from waste besides treatment in the frame work of 'waste biorefinery'.

Honors and Awards

1. Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar (SSB) Prize for Science and Technology for the year 2014 in Engineering Sciences

2. National Bioscience Award-2012, Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Government of India

3. ‘ProSPER.NET-Scopus Young Researcher Award in Sustainable Development for year 2010’ in Energy Category by United Nations University, M/S Elsevier and International Bureau of the BMBF, Germany.

4. ‘NASI-Scopus Young Scientist Award in Earth, Oceanographic & Environmental Sciences’ for year 2010 by The National Academy of Sciences, India and M/S Elsevier.

5. Alexander von Humboldt (AvH) Fellow, Technical University of Munich, Germany

6. Visiting Professorship, Kyoto University, Japan

7. The Nawab Zain Yar Jung Bahadur Memorial Prize for the year 1994-95 by The Institution of Engineers (India).

8. Membership in Professional and Scientific Organizations

        1. Fellow- Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) 
        2. Fellow- Andhra Pradesh Akademi of Sciences (APAS) 
        3. Fellow- The Institution of Engineers (India) (FIEI)  
        4. Fellow-  The Biotech Research Society of India (BRSI)  
        5. Full Member - The Institute of Advanced Studies on Sustainability, Institute of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, Germany

9. Editorial Assignments

       1.	Editor (Subject), Journal of Energy, Hindawi (2012-)
       2.	Editorial Board Member
                  •Bioresource Technology (2015- )
                  •The Open Waste Management Journal published by Bentham Science Publishers (2008- )
                  •The Open Biotechnology Journal published by Bentham Science Publishers (2007- )
                  •Dataset Papers in Atmospheric Sciences, Hindawi Publishing Corporation (2012-)
                  •The Advances in Energy Research, An International Journal (ERi), KIST (2013- )
                  •JUET Research Journal, India (2013- )
       3.	Editorial Boad, ISMET News International Society of Microbiology and Technology  (ISMET) (2015-)
       4.	Guest Editor: Special Issue on Microbial Fuel cell, Bioresource Technology (2015)

References

↑ http://ssbprize.gov.in/Content/Detail.aspx?AID=498
↑ "Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar awards for 10 scientists". BusinessLine. 26 September 2014. Retrieved 28 September 2014.
↑ "Dr. P.S.Ahuja Announces Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award 2014". Dr. P.S.Ahuja Announces Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award 2014. 26 September 2014. Retrieved 28 September 2014.
↑ http://ssbprize.gov.in/WriteReadData/LatestUpdates/201409260153504671808ssb_awardees2014.pdf

Recipients of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in Engineering Science

Homi Sethna (1960) Man Mohan Suri (1962) P. Brahm (1963) Bal Raj Nijhawan (1964) A. S. Rao (1965) Jai Krishna (1966) T. R. Anantharaman (1967) K. R. Chakravorty (1968) A. Bhattacharyya (1971) Govind Swarup & Rajinder Pal Wadhwa (1972) Man Mohan Sharma (1973) Roddam Narasimha (1974) Udipi Ramachandra Rao (1975) Rajinder Kumar & Vaidyeswaran Rajaraman (1976) S. N. Seshadri& Dig Vijai Singh (1978) Palle Rama Rao (1979) V. S. R. Arunachalam (1980) Suhash Chandra Datta Roy (1981) R. A. Mashelkar (1982) K. Kasturirangan & S. S. Sukhatme (1983) D. D. Bhawalkar & Paul Ratnasamy(1984) P. R. Rao (1985) Manohar Lal Munjal (1986) Shrikant Lele (1987) B. D. Kulkarni (1988) Srikumar Banerjee & G. V. Rao (1989) S. K. Pal (1990) Gangan Pratap (1990) J. B. Joshi (1991) Vivek Shripad Borkar (1992) Dipankar Banerjee & S. K. Bhatia (1993) G Sundarrajan (1994) Kamanio Chattopadhyay (1995) Devang Vipin Khakhar (1997) Ashok Jhunjhunwala & Anurah Sharma (1998) Ashutosh Sharma (2002) Atul Chokshi & Soumitro Banerjee (2003) S Choudhari & Vivek V Ranade (2004) V. Ramgopal Rao & Kalyanmoy Deb (2005) Ashish Lele & Sanjay Mittal (2006) R Govindrajan & Dr B. S. Murthy (2007) Ranjan Kumar Mallik (2008) Giridhar Madras & Jayant Haritsa (2009) G. K. Ananthasuresh & Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay (2010) Sirshendu De & Upadrasta Ramamurty (2011) Bikramjit Basu & Suman Chakraborty (2013) Soumen Chakrabarti & S Venkata Mohan (2014) Yogesh Moreshwar Joshi (2015)

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