PU undergraduate student appointed as Visiting Fellow

Chandigarh May 17, 2019 

 Rasmeet Singh, 2nd year student of B.E (Chemical) at Dr. S. S. Bhatnagar 
University Institute of Chemical Engineering & Technology Panjab University, Chandigarh (SSBUICET) has been appointed as a visiting fellow in the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, Sydney, Australia for the period of two months to participate in an Australian research project w.e.f 2nd June, 2019. Its first such case of UICET.

  Rasmeet is pursuing his research work along with his bachelor’s degree under the supervision of Dr. Sanjeev Gautam, Asst. Prof., Advanced Functional Materials Lab, Dr. SSBUICET, Panjab University.  Generally, under graduate students in UICET starts working on some research projects, if they are interested for higher studies after their bachelor’s degree. 

He has been appointed to conduct research on “Designing and Development of pretreatment Filtration System for Water and Wastewater” at University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia.

Dr. Sanjeev Gautam has started a hydrogen based fuel cell and hydrogen storage research along with other energy harvesting resources like photovoltaics, perovskite solar cells and thermoelectric. Mr. Rasmeet is currently working on the development of hybrid graphene compounds for hydrogen storage properties and wastewater purification.