Research will be conducted in a team-based approach. Research in The Academy will be truly multi-disciplinary which will allow discoveries to be made at the interface of disciplines.
The Academy’s intention is to organize research into classes of problems that seeks to address a key research-theme or sector-goal.
Six key research themes have been identified:
Project Number
IMURA0630
Project Status
Candidate Allotted
Experimental and modeling studies of metal/2D layered semiconductor interfaces
Research Themes
Smart Materials, Clean Energy
Monash University Supervisor
- Nikhil Medhekar
IIT-Bombay Supervisor
- Saurabh Lodha
Project Number
IMURA0399
Project Status
Candidate Allotted
Nanostructure Stabilization in Energy Materials
Research Themes
Smart Materials, Clean Energy
Monash University Supervisor
- Nikhil Medhekar
- Laure Bourgeois
IIT-Bombay Supervisor
- Sankara Sarma V Tatiparti
Project Number
IMURA0612
Project Status
Candidate Allotted
Highly efficient metal oxide sulfur composite for metal-sulfur batteries
Research Themes
Clean Energy
Monash University Supervisor
- Douglas R. MacFarlane
IIT-Bombay Supervisor
- Sagar Mitra
Project Number
IMURA0221(A)
Project Status
Student completed
Pratham Arora
Techno-economic evaluations of biomass gasification with carbon capture for syngas feedstock to ammonia production
Research Themes
Clean Energy, Infrastructure Engineering
Monash University Supervisor
- Andrew Hoadley
IIT-Bombay Supervisor
- Sanjay Mahajani
- Anuradda Ganesh
Research Themes
Smart Materials, Clean Energy
Monash University Supervisor
- Rico Tabor
IIT-Bombay Supervisor
- Ajay S Panwar
- Dipti Gupta
Project Number
IMURA0057
Project Status
Candidate Allotted
A numerical study of creation of optimal fracture networks for heat extraction from engineered geothermal reservoirs
Research Themes
Clean Energy, Infrastructure Engineering
Monash University Supervisor
- Ranjith Pathegama
IIT-Bombay Supervisor
- D. Chandrasekharam
Project Number
IMURA0609
Project Status
Candidate Allotted
Intelligent operation and control of microgrid at ultra-high penetration of renewable energy
Research Themes
Clean Energy
Monash University Supervisor
- Behrooz Bahrani
IIT-Bombay Supervisor
- Zakir Hussain Rather
- Suryanarayana Doolla
Project Number
IMURA0717
Project Status
Candidate Allotted
Permeability and strength of methane-hydrate bearing reservoir rocks
Research Themes
Clean Energy
Monash University Supervisor
- Ranjith Pathegama
IIT-Bombay Supervisor
- V. Vishal
Project Number
IMURA0164
Project Status
Candidate Allotted
Fabrication and Experimental Characterization of Spin Polarized Light Sources
Research Themes
Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Computational Modelling, Clean Energy
Monash University Supervisor
- Zie Liu
IIT-Bombay Supervisor
- Dipankar Saha
- S Ganguly
Project Number
IMURA0305
Project Status
Candidate Allotted
Enhanced and desirable lipid synthesis in algae for efficient biofuel production
Research Themes
Clean Energy
Monash University Supervisor
- John Beardall
- Madhu Chetty
IIT-Bombay Supervisor
- Pramod Wangikar