Professor Tapas Mallick

I am a Professor and Chair in Clean Technologies, Renewable Energy and Lead of the Solar Energy Research Group within the Environment & Sustainability Institute. I am also the Director and Scientific Advisor of BuildSolar Limited. I am a Distinguished Adjunct Professor at the Department of Mechanical and Energy Engineering, College of Engineering, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Saudi Arabia. I am also Visiting Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India. My research focus is applied solar energy and, with my research team, I look at bridging the urban and rural energy divide through solar energy implementation. I am particularly interested in teaching advanced solar energy engineering and heat transfer for renewable energy systems. I am actively involved various RCUK, European and Industrial funded research projects in the area of Solar Energy. I am part of SUPERGEN solar consortium, EUED centre - key research consortium in the UK. In addition, I am Associate Editor and Subject Editor of the Journals Energies and IET Renewable Power Generation. I have strong relationship with many ODA countries spans accross Indian continent, Middle East, and sub-saharan African continent. I have supervised twenty-two PhDs to completion and engaged several governmental level panel accross the world. In 2016 I received British Indian Award for services to Education in the UK and in 2018 BuildSolar received Best Innovation for Sustainability award in Cornwall.

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Research Interests:

• Renewable energy
• Concentrating solar photovoltaics
• Thermal Energy Storage
• Heat transfer, optics and electrical modelling
• Building integrated photovoltaics
• Static solar concentrators
• Integrated renewables (biomass, wind and solar integration)
• Novel materials for solar electricity
• Solar electricity for sustainable building
• Building energy efficiencies and smart glazing

Current Projects:

• EPSRC funded End User Energy Demand Technology 2 project on smart Phase Change Materials for smart glazing.
• EPSRC funded End User Energy Demand Technology 1 project on building integrated concentrated photovoltaics for Advanced building facade technologies.
• EPSRC funded SUPERGEN Energy Stroage project n-COSH
• EPSRC funded Joint UK-India Clean Energy Centre
• EPSRC funded UK-India Clean Energy Centre Flexible funding
• EU funded Energy independent farming project
• EU funded E2C project

Qualifications:

• 2003 PhD in Solar Energy Engineering (University of Ulster)
• 1998 MTech in Energy Science and Technology (Jadavpur University, India)
• 1996 MSc Physics (Visva-Bharati University, India)
• 1994 BSc Physics (Visva-Bharati University, India)

Career

• 2018 Director and Scientific Advisor of BuildSolar Limited
• 2013 Chair in Clean Technologies, University of Exeter
• 2011-2012 Senior Lecturer, Heriot-Watt University
• 2007-2011 Lecturer, Heriot-Watt University
• 2003-2007 Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Ulster and Warwick University

Editorial Board

• Section Editor-in-Chief of Energies Journal, March 2015 to date
• Subject Editor for IET Renewable Power Generation, April 2016 – to date
• Guest Editor for International Journal of Energies, Sep 2015, Switzerland
• Editorial Board Member for “Advanced Energy: International Journal – AEIJ”, Jan 2013 to date
• Editorial Board Member for Advanced Solar Thermal Energy, Jan 2013 to 2019
• Guest Editor for International Journal of Photoenergy, 2012