Dr. Dipak Ashok Jadhav did PhD from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur on Scaling up of microbial fuel cell and development of scaling up microbial fuel cell for sanitation applications. Earlier, he was associated as a Research Professor at Department of Environmental Engineering at Korea Maritime and Ocean University (KMOU) Busan, South Korea. He also worked as Assistant Professor, Maharashtra Institute of Technology, Aurangabad, India. During his Master thesis research, he received DAAD fellowship in 2011-2012 to work in Technical University Braunschweig Germany. He has received several prestigious awards and fellowship including Young Technological Innovation Award (GYTI) at Rashtrapati Bhavan, IEI-Young Engineers Award, IEI-Promising Engineers Award, NRF-BP fellowship, Swachhta Sarthi Fellow, DAAD fellowship, IGCS fellowship, Silver medal for post graduate studies at IIT Kharagpur, etc. His research area is microbial fuel/electrolysis cell, Bioelectrochemical system, Sanitation, Bioenergy research, Waste to Energy recovery. Field demonstration of Bioelectric toilet concept developed by him was appreciated by Ministry, Govt of India with Swachthon 1.0 Award in 2018. Recently, he also featured in the Top 2% scientist in the world as per data compiled by Stanford University, USA and Elsevier. He has presented research work at national and international conferences in the area of bioelectrochemical system and bioenergy. He delivered keynote lectures in IITs, NITs, foreign universities based on waste-to-resource recovery. He is also serving as associate editor, editorial board member /reviewers for many International Journals and member for several scientific societies in the field of microbial fuel cell, microbial electrochemical system and bioenergy research.
Dr. S. B Khaple is working as an Associate Professor in Civil Engineering Department at the JSPM Narhe Technical Campus, Narhe-41, Pune-Maharashtra (India). He obtained his Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Civil Engineering from PDA College of Engineering, Kalaburagi-Karnataka. Further, he gained Ph.D. degree from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, West Bengal- India. He worked as an Assistant Professor in Department of Civil Engineering, Central University of Karnataka, Kadaganchi, Kalaburagi (Karnataka) and has extensive teaching experience in the area of Fluid Mechanics, Hydraulics and Water Resources Engineering.
He is a member of the institution of Engineers (India); Member of Indian Society for Hydraulics, Member of Indian Society of Technical Education and Member of Indian Concrete Institute and many more. He awarded the Senior Research Fellow (SRF) from Research Designs & Standards Organisation (RDSO), Lucknow, Govt. of India and He is having experience in research related to Turbulence: Velocity Distribution, Turbulence Intensity, Secondary Currents and Dip Phenomenon, Fluvial Hydraulics: Sediment transport, Local Scour around hydraulic structures. Open Channel Hydraulics: Experimental Fluid Mechanics, Numerical flow modeling, free overfall, Hydraulic Engineering and Water Resources Engineering. He is working as R&D coordinator at institute level. He is also serving as Editorial Board Member/Reviewers for National and International Journals.
Currently, Dr. S. B Khaple is actively working as Head of the Department, Civil Engineering, JSPM-Nathe Technical Campus, Narhe Pune-41, Maharashtra (India).
Pawan S. Wable (PhD, IIT Kharagpur) is a researcher specializing in hydrology and watershed management. His research is particularly focused on drought indices, water balance studies, and innovative conservation practices tailored for semi-arid and forested ecosystems.
He earned his B.Tech in Agricultural Engineeri
