Asst. Prof. Suraj Gupta
Assistant Professor at Jožef Stefan International Postgraduate School
Research associate
- Phone: +386 1 477 3871
- Room: K932
- Email: suraj.gupta@ijs.si
- Personal website
Biography
Dr. Suraj Gupta completed his master’s degree
in Physics and Materials Science from the University of Mumbai, India (2011).
He completed his PhD in 2016 from the Department of Physics, University of
Mumbai (India). Later, he joined the Department of Chemical Engineering at IIT
Bombay (India) as a National Postdoctoral Fellow (2017). A year later (2018),
he moved to the School of Engineering at University of Liverpool (UK) as a
Commonwealth Rutherford Fellow. Presently, he is staffed at the Advanced
Materials Department of the Josef Stefan Institute in Slovenia.
Education
Professional background
March 2018 – Feb 2020: Commonwealth Rutherford Fellow, School of Engineering, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom.
Project Coordination
2025 – 2027: Efficiency enhancement of water electrolyzers driven by
nuclear residual heat – Slovenia – United Kingdom bilateral cooperation project
2023 - 2027: ANEMEL - ANion Exchange Membrane
Electrolysis from Low-grade water sources - European Innovation Council (EIC), Grant Agreement No. 101071111
2023 - 2026: BoroCat - Experimental realization
of 2D BORidene electrOCATalysts for anion-exchange membrane water electrolyzers
– Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency (ARIS), Project Number - J2-50055
Other Scientific Activities
2023 – Reviewer and rapporteur for M-ERA.NET
projects
2019-20 – Reviewer and selection panellist for research projects under “Early Career Researchers and Returners Fund, Round 7” at University of Liverpool, United Kingdom
2024 –
Member of the Slovenian Chemical Society
2023 - Member of the Slovenian Microscopy
Society
2018 – Life Member of the Materials Research Society of India, Mumbai Chapter
2018 – Life Member of the Indian Association of Hydrogen Energy and Advanced Materials
2024 -
COST Action CA22123 - European Materials Acceleration Center for Energy
(EU-MACE) – Management Committee Member
Awards, Honors and Achievements
2023 - Best Poster Award at the Materials
Today Conference, Singapore
2020 – Awarded membership from the American
Chemical Society
2020 – Top Downloaded Paper, from Wiley, for
publication in Advanced Functional Materials
2018 – Seal of Excellence, from European Commission, for project under Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship
2018 – Awarded Life Membership from the Indian Association of Hydrogen Energy and Advanced Materials
2017 – Seal of Excellence, from European Commission, for project under Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship
2017 – Young Scientist Award, from the Indian Association of Hydrogen Energy and Advanced Materials
2016 – Gold Medal and Best Thesis Award, from the Indian Physics Association
2014 – Best Research Paper Award, at the Int. Conference on Energy Materials, Chennai, India
2014 – International Travel Grants, from the Department of Science & Technology, India
Research interests
2D materials