Professor Tapas Mallick

I am a Professor and Chair of Clean Technologies, Renewable Energy and the lead of the Solar Energy Research Group within the Environment & Sustainability Institute. I am a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and a Fellow of the World Society of Sustainable Energy Technologies. I am also the Director and Scientific Advisor of BuildSolar Limited. I am a Distinguished Adjunct Professor at the Department of Mechanical and Energy Engineering, College of Engineering, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Saudi Arabia. I am also a Visiting Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India. My research focus is applied solar energy and, with my research team, I look at bridging the urban and rural energy divide through solar energy implementation. I am particularly interested in teaching advanced solar energy engineering and heat transfer for renewable energy systems. I am actively involved various RCUK, European and Industrial funded research projects in the area of Solar Energy. I am part of SUPERGEN solar consortium, EUED centre - key research consortium in the UK. In addition, I am Associate Editor and Subject Editor of the Journals Energies and IET Renewable Power Generation. I have strong relationships with many ODA countries across the Indian continent, Middle East, and sub-Saharan African continent. I have supervised thirty-four PhDs to completion and engaged several governmental-level panels accross the world. In 2016 I received British Indian Award for services to Education in the UK and in 2018 BuildSolar received Best Innovation for Sustainability award in Cornwall. I have published over 450 research articles in various platforms.

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Research Interests:

• Renewable energy
• Concentrating solar photovoltaics
• Thermal Energy Storage
• Heat transfer, optics and electrical modelling
• Building integrated photovoltaics
• Static solar concentrators
• Integrated renewables (biomass, wind and solar integration)
• Novel materials for solar electricity
• Solar electricity for sustainable building
• Building energy efficiencies and smart glazing

Current Projects:

• UK-Egypt British Council funded project on solar energy performance.
• HiACT - Hydrogen Integration for Accelerated Energy Transition
• EPSRC funded End User Energy Demand Technology 2 project on smart Phase Change Materials for smart glazing.
• Energy Entrepreneurs Fund, DESNZ

Research Projects Completed:

1. Advanced building façade design for optimal delivery of end use energy demand
2. Energy Independent Farming
3. Joint UK-India Clean Energy Centre (JUICE)
4. Spectral dependent unified soiling losses of PV farms in India
5. Power control unit and rigorous testing of thin film BIPV (PC-Rig)
6. E2C: Electrons to high value Chemical products
7. nano-Structured PCM Composites for Compact Space Heating
8. Solar-powered desalination system for sustainable water management in Mediterranean region
9. Non-imaging optics based low concentrating photovoltaic thermal (LCPVT) hybrid system
10. Zinc-Nickel Redox Flow Battery for Energy Storage
11. Performance and Commercial Value Demonstration of Solar Squared
12. EPSRC Impact Acceleration Award
13. Embedded systems for Integrated Photovoltaics in Rural Buildings: E-IPB
14. Reliable and Efficient System for Community Energy Solution- RESCUES
15. Scalable Solar Thermoelectrics and Photovoltaics SUNTRAP
16. International and Industrial Engagement Fund
17. Solar Squared Project, EPSRC-IAA Award
18. Sustainable energy production through biomas gasification integrated with solar thermal conversion
19. Development and Integration of Biomass and Concentrating Photovoltaic System for Rural and Urban Energy Bridge: BioCPV
20. Solar Performance Mapping and Operational Yield Forecasting
21. Innovation 2 Commercialisation (I2C) for Solar Concentrator Limited
22. Non-uniform modelling of concentrating solar cell
23. Luminescent Lanthanide Layers for Enhanced Photovoltaic Performance
24. Building Integrated Concentrating Enhanced Photovoltaic Thermal System: BICEPT
25. Active Solar Panel Initiative
26. Development of a solar concentrator for solar-water desalination
27. Hybrid Thin Film Solar Cells
28. Design and Fabrication on Functional Nanostructures
29. Royal Society Wolfson Laboratory Refurbishment Scheme
30. RSE-INSA bi-lateral exchange

Qualifications:

• 2003 PhD in Solar Energy Engineering (University of Ulster)
• 1998 MTech in Energy Science and Technology (Jadavpur University, India)
• 1996 MSc Physics (Visva-Bharati University, India)
• 1994 BSc Physics (Visva-Bharati University, India)

Career

• 2013 to date - Professor and Chair in Clean Technologies, University of Exeter
• 2024 to date - Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Mechanical and Energy Engineering; College of Engineering, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Saudi Arabia.
• 2018 to date - Adjunct Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, Chennai, India.
• 2018 to date - Director and Scientific Advisor of BuildSolar Limited
• 2015-2019, Academic Lead for Renewable Energy, College of Engineering Mathematics and Physical Sciences, University of Exeter.
• 2011-2012 Senior Lecturer, Heriot-Watt University
• 2007-2011 Lecturer, Heriot-Watt University
• 2003-2007 Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Ulster and Warwick University

Editorial Board

• Section Editor-in-Chief of Energies Journal, March 2015 to date
• Subject Editor for IET Renewable Power Generation, April 2016 – 2024
• Guest Editor for International Journal of Energies, Sep 2015, Switzerland
• Editorial Board Member for “Advanced Energy: International Journal – AEIJ”, Jan 2013 to date
• Editorial Board Member for Advanced Solar Thermal Energy, Jan 2013 to 2019
• Guest Editor for International Journal of Photoenergy, 2012