Faculty Details

Dr. Rohit Sharma is currently serving as Senior Assistant Professor and Programme Chair-Mechanical at VIT Bhopal University, India. He earned his Ph.D. from Politecnico di Milano (POLIMI), Italy in Energy and Nuclear Science & Technology in 2017. His research focused on the near-field region of turbulent swirling jets in the combustion & propulsion laboratory. Notably, Dr. Sharma received an esteemed Erasmus Mundus fellowship sponsored by the European Commission in 2013 to pursue his Ph.D. Prior to his doctorate, Dr. Sharma received his M.Tech in Thermal Engineering from NIT Warangal in 2013 and a B.E. in Mechanical Engineering from LNCT Bhopal in 2010. Over the years, he has amassed extensive experience in the field of research and academia. For three years, he worked as a Senior Project Research Scientist at IIT Bombay. He also served as an Assistant Professor at NIT Jalandhar for some time and gained invaluable industrial experience as a Graduate Engineer Trainee at Vardhman Yarns for one year.Dr. Sharma has an impressive record of 25 publications in esteemed journals and conferences and has been honored with best research paper and poster awards. As a core team member, he actively participated in the student solar ambassador workshop organized under the SoULS project at IIT Bombay, which achieved the Guinness World Record on 2nd October 2018 for lighting the most LED lights based on solar energy. He has contributed to other sponsored projects such as the Energy and Economic Growth (EEG) project in collaboration with the University of California, Berkeley, USA, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, USA. Also, he worked on the TATA Research project in collaboration with Boston College, USA, under the SoULS, IIT Bombay umbrella. He has recently been awarded an International Travel Grant (2022) in the Young Scientist category and a Seminar/Symposia Grant (2023) by SERB, Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, serving as the Principal Investigator. He has traveled to numerous countries, including France, Greece, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Saudi Arabia, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom, to present his research at various international conferences. Dr. Sharma has successfully organised several international conferences and workshops as Organising Secretary and Convener. His diverse research interests encompass Experimental Fluid Dynamics, Optical Diagnostics, Flow Visualization, Internal Combustion Engines, Proper Orthogonal Decomposition, Predictive Modelling, Rural Electrification, and Off-grid Solar Energy.