ICMFHT Keynote Speaker
Dr. Prashant Valluri, University of Edinburgh, UK
Prashant Valluri was born and brought up in Mumbai, India. He read Chemical Engineering at Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Technological University (Lonere, India) graduating with a Bachelor of Technology degree in 1998. He then worked at Unilever Research India in Mumbai until 2000, after which he pursued his PhD at Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London under the supervision of Prof Omar Matar and the late Prof Geoffrey Hewitt. His PhD topic was on understanding multiphase fluid dynamics in separation columns with structured packings. After his PhD in 2004, he continued at Imperial College London as a post-doctoral research associate in industry-academia projects concerning multiphase flows in energy and FMCG sectors. He joined the School of Engineering at The University of Edinburgh as a Lecturer in 2009 and was promoted to Personal Chair in Fluid Dynamics in 2020. He has expertise in numerical and theoretical techniques to study complex industrial multiphase flows. His research has resulted in development of three bespoke open source flow solvers: TPLS 3.0, GISS and VaPor. These have revealed fundamental insights in energy and medical applications including thermal management of microelectronics, multiphase pipeline flows, post-combustion carbon capture and mapping of brain temperatures.