Biography
Dr. Shekhar R Kulkarni is a Research Scientist in Team Roberts at KAUST. Shekhar joined KAUST in 2019; working as a postdoctoral fellow until 2023 and a research scientist until 2024 at the KAUST Catalysis Platform (KCP) and thereafter as a research scientist at the Clean Energy Research Platform (CERP)
At KAUST, Shekhar has focused his efforts on translating the laboratory-scale processes into pilot-scale operations and beyond - primarily the ultrasonically-enhanced oxidative desulfurization (uODS) and the advanced oxidation-based water treatment project.
He has >35 peer-reviewed publications; 1 granted US patent (with more than 10 patents pending) and served as an expert reviewer for >15 reputed scientific journals.
Education
Shekhar holds PhD in Chemical Engineering from Ghent University, Belgium and a MS in Chemical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Madras. Shekhar has also worked as a Process Engineer at Texol Engineering, India for two years.
