Ramesh L. Gardas

WORK HISTORY

EDUCATION

ABOUT RAMESH L. GARDAS

Ramesh Laxminarayan Gardas was born and brought up in Surat, Gujarat. He completed B.Sc, M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Chemistry from the Veer Narmad South Gujarat University. Then he joined University of Coimbra and University of Aveiro, Portugal, and Queen’s University Belfast, UK for his postdoctoral research on physico-chemical properties and applications of ionic liquids. Then, Dr. Gardas joined the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India, in August 2010, as an Assistant Professor in Chemistry, and promoted to Associate Professor in July 2015 and to full Professor in March 2020. Dr. Gardas has more than 23-years of research and 13-years of teaching experience. So far, he has been completed 8 projects (as PI and Co-PI) worth more than Rs. 6.5 crores, guided 14 Ph.D. and 17 M.Sc. project students. Co-authored 4 patents, 4 book-chapters, 7 conference papers, and 200 research publications which received more than 8600 citations with h-index = 47 and average citations per paper of above 39. He delivered more than 300 invited talks and guest lectures. Dr. Gardas’ research group focusses on ‘Chemical Thermodynamics’ and ‘Phase Equilibria’ of industrially important solvents and their mixtures. His research group, is unique in the country, focusses on both ‘Science’ and ‘Technology’ part of the contemporary field – “Ionic Liquids/ Deep Eutectic Solvents as an alternative to Volatile Organic Solvents” and significantly contributing in connecting them. His research group substantially contributed to the development of non-conventional and environmentally benign solvent systems. Generated extensive databases on their thermodynamic properties and structure-composition-property correlations useful in refrigeration, separation science and crude oil industry. These will have far-reaching implications in the design of application-specific solvent systems. His research group strives to design the task-specific ionic liquids and to provide an important insight into physical chemistry to regulate their properties for varied technological applications such as phase change materials, CO2 capturing, dissolution of tank bottom sludge, electrolytes in solar cell and supercapacitors, absorbents for a refrigeration system, desulfurization of fuels, and also the extraction of metal ions, biomolecules and value-added products.