Dr. Amit Kumar Mishra
Assistant Professor (Grade I)
Department of Materials Science and Metallurgical Engineering
Indian Institute of technology Bhilai (IIT Bhilai), Chhattisgarh, India
✉️amitmishra@iitbhilai.ac.in | amitmishrac41@gmail.com
🔬 RESEARCH INTEREST
- Energy storage materials
- Thermal-optical properties
- Thermoelectric applications
- Sustainable composite materials
- Thermal management/electronics cooling applications
- Thermal energy storage
- Nanotechnology and renewable energy
🎓 EDUCATION
- Ph.D. (Chemical Sciences): HBNI-Department of Atomic Energy (DAE),Mumbai (Awarded: Jan. 2020)
- M.Sc.: Chemistry, Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Varanasi, India
- B.Sc.(Hons.): Chemistry, Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Varanasi, India
💼 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
- Feb. 2026–Onwards: Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of technology (IIT) Bhilai, India
- Jul. 2025–Jan. 2026: Marie Curie Fellow (MSCA), Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany
- Jul. 2023–Jun. 2025: Postdoctoral Fellow, Politecnico di Torino (PoliTO), Italy
- Jul. 2020–Jun. 2023: Institute Postdoctoral Fellow, IIT Kanpur, India
👨🏫 TEACHING
- MML 351 : Technologies of Thin Film Fabrication
✍️ SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
- Amit Kumar Mishra,B. B. Lahiri and John Philip, Carbon black nano particle loaded lauric acid-based form-stable phase change material with enhanced thermal conductivity and photo-thermal conversion for thermal energy storage, Energy, 191, 2020, p 116572.
- Amit Kumar Mishra, B. B. Lahiri and John Philip, Superior thermal conductivity and photo-thermal conversion efficiency of carbon black loaded organic phase change material, J. Mol. Liq., 285, 2019, pp 640-657.
- Amit Kumar Mishra, Matteo Morciano, Biruk Wondifraw Agegnehu, Elena Campagnoli, Valter Giaretto, Andrea Bottega, Matteo Fasano, Luigi Mongibello, Eliodoro Chiavazzo Dynamic PCM strategies with nano-enhanced composites for optimal thermal energy storage and management, Chem. Eng. J. Adv., 23, 2025, p100789.
- Amit Kumar Mishra, Matteo Morciano, Elena Campagnoli, Valter Giaretto, Matteo Fasano, Eliodoro Chiavazzo, Coffee and turmeric bio-based shape-stabilized composite PCMs for thermal and solar energy storage applications, Sol. Energy Mater. Sol. Cells, 297, 2026, p 114136.
- Amit Kumar Mishra, B. B. Lahiri and John Philip, Effect of surface functionalization and physical properties of nanoinclusions on thermal conductivity enhancement in hexadecane phase change material, ACS Omega, 3, 2018, pp 9487–9504.
- Amit Kumar Mishra B. B. Lahiri and John Philip, Thermal conductivity enhancement in or-ganic phase change material (phenol-water system) upon addition of Al2O3, SiO2 and TiO2 nano-inclusions, J. Mol. Liq., 269, 2018, pp 47-63.
- Ashwini Kumar Rawat, Subhajit Chakraborty, Amit Kumar Mishra and Debabrata Goswami, Achieving Molecular Distinction in Alcohols with Femtosecond Thermal Lens Spectroscopy, Chem. Phys., 561, 2022, p 111596.
- Sunil Kumar, Abhinay Thakur, Amit Kumar Mishra, Rajeev Kumar, Manickam Selvaraj, Arun Karnwal, Dimple Kumari, Anshuman Srivastava, Ubaid Ahmad Khan, Nidhi Asthana, Ambrish Singh, Laxman Singh, Materials and Processes in Nanogenerators for Energy Harvesting: A Review of Chemical Modification Strategies and Paradigms, J. Alloys Compd., 2025, p184278.
- Ashwini Kumar Rawat, Subhajit Chakraborty, Amit Kumar Mishra and Debabrata Goswami, Investigating the pH Dependence of Thermal Signatures in Monohydric and Polyhydric Alcohols using Time-Resolved Thermal Lens Spectroscopy, Opt. Mater. 137, 2023, p 113623.
- Ashwini Kumar Rawat, Subhajit Chakraborty, Amit Kumar Mishra and Debabrata Goswami, Unraveling molecular interactions in binary liquid mixtures with time-resolved thermal-lens-spectroscopy, J. Mol. Liq., 336, 2021, p 116322.
- Amit Kumar Mishra, B. B. Lahiri, Vijay Solomon and John Philip, Nano-inclusion aided thermal conductivity enhancement in palmitic acid/di-methyl formamide phase change material for latent heat thermal energy storage, Thermochim. Acta, 2019, p 178309.
🏆 AWARDS AND HONORS
- 2025: ‘Awarded the prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie (MSCA) postdoctoral fellowship at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany
- 2025:‘Achieved the highest (100 %) score in the European Commission (EU)-MSCA Fellowship
- 2023:‘Postdoctoral fellowship from Politecnico di Torino, Italy
- 2020:‘Institute postdoctoral fellowship (I-PDF) from IIT Kanpur, India
- 2019:CSIR travel grant to present the research findings in THERMAM-2019, held at Izmir, Turkey during September 22-24
- The Best Oral Presentation Award in the International Conference on Advanced Materials (ICAM-2019)
- The Best Poster Presentation Award in 5th International Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICONN-2019)
- Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE), 2016
- Junior Research Fellowship By Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), India, 2014