About Me

I am a DST-INSPIRE Faculty in the Department of Chemical Engineering at IIT Roorkee. My research develops non-thermal plasma (dielectric barrier discharge) catalysis to drive energy-intensive chemical transformations under mild, electrified conditions: ammonia synthesis, methane decomposition to turquoise hydrogen, CO₂ conversion and lignocellulosic biomass gasification. My broader interests span heterogeneous catalysis, catalyst synthesis and characterisation, photocatalysis and in-situ/operando spectroscopy, with the goal of linking catalyst structure to performance for sustainable fuels and chemicals.