Dr. R. Velraj, Professor, Institute for Energy Studies specialized in Thermal Energy Storage, Solar Energy, Desalination, Energy efficient buildings, Energy Auditing and Management, and fundamental studies of Heat Transfer & Computational Fluid Dynamics.

Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical- Annamalai University), Masters on Energy Engineering (Anna University) and Ph.D. at Anna University and part of the doctoral research he carried out in Solar Institute, Juelich, Germany for a period of 20 months (1995 – 1997) under DAAD Fellowship by Germany.

Administrative Experience (14 years)

• Administrative position as Deputy Director, Centre for Engineering Partnership (renamed as Centre for affiliation of Institutions) for 6 years from 2004 to 2010.
• Director, AU – FRG Institute for CAD/CAM for 3 years from 2010 to 2013.
• Director, Institute for Energy Studies for 5 years from 2013 to 2018.
• Attended LEAP training for a period of 2 weeks in IIT-BHU Dt: 8.12.2019 to 21.12.2019 and 10 days in Cambridge University, U.K Dt: 19.12.2020 to 26.01.2020.