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People and Personalities

Heat Transfer Engineering is pleased to announce that Dr. Sarit Kumar Das has joined the Editorial Staff of the journal as an Associate Editor. Dr. Das is a professor of the Heat Transfer and Thermal Power Section of the Mechanical Engineering Department at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras, India. He received his B.E. and M.E. degrees from Jadavpur University, Calcutta, in 1984 and 1986, respectively. He submitted his Ph.D. dissertation from Sambalpur University in 1992 while working as a lecturer at the Regional Engineering College, Rourkela. Thereafter, he carried out post-doctoral research at the University of Federal Armed Forces, Hamburg, Germany, in 1993–94. He joined IIT Madras as an assistant professor in 1995. Subsequently, he was elevated to the posts of associate professor and professor in 2000 and 2004, respectively. He has published two books and more than seventy research papers, fifty of them in reputed international journals. He has guided a number of scholars for Ph.D. and M.S. (masters by research) degrees, in addition to a large number of M.Tech scholars. He has handled several research projects of national importance alone as well as with international collaborations. He had been a visiting professor at the University of Federal Armed Forces, Hamburg, Germany, and the University of Lund, Swiden. He has been invited to deliver lectures in a number of universities and institutes, including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Lund, University of Warwick, University of Karlsruhe, Helmut Schmidt University, Korea Electric Power Research Institute, and the Argonne National Laboratory. He is a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of the Heat Exchanger and Heat Transfer Engineering. His research interests include the design and dynamic analysis of heat exchangers, pool boiling heat transfer, heat transfer in nano-fluids, thermophysical properties of packed beds, transport in fuel cells, jet instabilities, heat transfer in porous media, exergy analysis of heat transfer processes, computational fluid dynamics, and liquid metal heat transfer. He is the recipient of DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) and Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship of Germany.