Prof. Dharam Buddhi

Vice Chancellor - Uttaranchal University

He is an Academic, Administrative and Innovative leader.

He is an alumnus of IIT Delhi and Ex-Professor, School of Energy and Environmental Studies, Devi Ahilya University, Indore. Dr Buddhi has also worked in industry as Director (Technical), Chief Technical Advisor & Head R & D and also transferred the technology.

Prof. Buddhi got Lifetime Achievement Award 2023 for outstanding contribution in Academics and Research.

He is globally Ranked in the top 2% researchers worldwide in the field of energy in the year 2021, 2022, 2023 by Stanford University/Elsevier.

His areas of research are Renewable Energy, Energy Conservation, Green Building and Energy storage.

Ex-Vice Chancellor, Suresh Gyan Vihar University, Jaipur,

Indian Project Coordinator of Indo-Australia collaboration Project on “Thermal Energy Storage for Food/Grain Drying with CST/RE to Lower Pollution”.

International consultant to Asian Development Bank during 2016-2018 for Green Power project in Sri Lanka.

Prof. Buddhi received grants from DST, MNRE, MHRD, European Union & AICTE etc.

He has been also member of ‘Program Advisory Committee’ on Technology System Development, Department of Science and Technology, GOI.

Dr Buddhi was on the Editorial Board of “Energy Conversion and Management”, an Elsevier International Journal and is Reviewer of severally globally renowned Research Journal and a member of numerous professional bodies. He has guided more than 90 M.Tech. students.

He guided 20 research scholars leading to Ph.D. degree in the field of Heat Transfer, Solar Energy, Green Buildings, Thermal Load Management, Fuel Cell, Cold Chain Solutions & RAC and has published/presented more than 250+ research papers and reviews and 150+ patents to his credit out of which a few has been granted. He has the credit of first patent granted at Devi Ahilya University, Indore.

Dr Buddhi has international academic and industrial exposure of U.K, Portugal, Germany, Italy, Spain, France, Switzerland, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, Taiwan, Sri Lanka, Australia and US.

Dr Buddhi has very high citations of the order of 14000+ of his publications. As per the report of Government of India, International Comparative Research Base (2009-14) by Department of Science & Technology, Top 10 publications in Energy, Dr Buddhi's paper was ranked number one.