Professor Kaushik Rajashekara won Global Energy Prize 2022

Professor Kaushik Rajashekara won Global Energy Prize 2022

• Indian-origin professor of engineering at the University of Houston, KaushikRajashekara has won the prestigious Global Energy Prize.
• Rajashekara was given the award in the New Ways of Energy Applications category for his contributions to transportation electrification and energy efficiency technologies while reducing power generation emissions.
• Only three people in the world were selected this year for the honour, bestowed by the Global Energy Association, out of a record 119 nominations from 43 countries. Rajashekara is joined as a 2022 laureate by Viktor Orlov, chief specialist of the Centre for Innovative Technologies (Rosatom in Russia) and pioneer in thermonuclear physics; and MercouriKanatzidis, professor of chemistry and materials science at Northwestern University and senior researcher at the Argonne National Laboratory.

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Published date : 28 Jul 2022 05:12PM