Professor Dinesh Kabra

Prof. Dinesh Kabra is Professor in department of Physics at IIT Bombay, Mumbai - India. DK is also an adjunct faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Ohio-State University, USA. He is co-director for IIT Bombay- Ohio State University frontier research Centre. Prior to joining the IIT Bombay, DK was an independent Herchel Smith Research Fellow at Cavendish Laboratory in University of Cambridge (UCAM), UK. He was also an honorary postdoctoral fellow of Trinity-hall college, UCAM-UK. He did his PhD at JNCASR, Bengaluru-India. DK is recipient of DST Solar Challenge Award 2022, Early Research Achiever Award 2015 and Best Paper Award 2016 of Industrial Research & Consultancy Centre, IIT Bombay. His research focus involves Energy Materials and devices, like; single junction PV; tandem Solar Cells, Transparent PV, In-door PV and optoelectronic devices. He is an expert in transferring the fundamental photo-physics and device physics of emerging photonic materials into the design of high-performance devices. DK is an invited speaker in most of the reputed national and international conferences related to his field of research. He is a reviewer to various national and international funding agencies. His research group has published more than 200 peer reviewed reputed publications and more than 20+ international and national patents, many of them licensed and tech-transferred to the industries in the domain of energy and optoelectronics. DK is co-founder of Advanced Renewable Tandem-Photovoltaics (ART-PV) India Pvt Ltd in the domain of Solar cells.