Rohan Sharma

• 7+ years research experience in process design, optimization and intensification across multiple domains- bioelectrochemical fuel cells, iron and steelmaking, and mining
• Focused on scaling up technologies in hard to abate sectors by leveraging skills in fundamental analysis, experimental design, and numerical modelling. Lead inventor for a commercialized technology used by a start-up.
• Experienced with technological and financial assessment of decarbonization technologies such as Algae CCUs, Pavement Integrated Photovoltaics, Building Wastewater Heat Recovery, and Zero carbon building materials.
• Experienced in communicating technological and financial details to stakeholders and strategic partners

• 2023-2024 Mitacs Accelerate Fellowship
• 2018-2023 SERB-UBC Scholarship -Awarded to five candidates per year from India
• Multiple years (2018-2023) Faculty of Applied Sciences Graduate Award, International Tuition Award, President's Academic Excellence Initiative PhD Award
• 2016,2015 Secured All India Rank 45 in Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering(GATE)-2016, 230 in 2015
• 2014 Best Poster Award at IIT Kanpur in Materials Science Category
• 2011 All India Rank 2684 (99.5 percentile) in India's most competitive engineering examinations (IIT-JEE)

• 2024, A method to fabricate conductive polymer electrodes, Sharma R., Morison M. L., Yadav V. G., filed
• 2024, Reactor configurations in large scale microbial fuel cells for acid rock drainage treatment, Sharma R., Donaldson J. W. D., Yadav V. G., filed
• 2023, Processes for treatment of wastewater, Yadav V. G., Subedi G., Sharma R., Bhagwat A. M., granted

The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Dr. Vikramaditya G. Yadav, 09/01/18, Present, Net-zero Technologies, Microbial fuel cells (MFCs), Acid Rock Drainage (ARD), Conceived, designed, and fabricated in house, extremely low cost (95% efficiency, Evaluated treatment methods on graphite felts for improved bacterial attachment and enhancing performance, Studied the role of capacitance and internal surface area on performance in MFCs, Fabricated in-house, hierarchical structured 3D printed conductive nickel electrodes modified with reduced graphene oxide & poly-pyrrole that resulted in high performance, Built a coupled multiphysics numerical model using COMSOLTM to assess impact of ionic strengths on acidity and ion transfer between anolyte and catholyte in a dual chamber MFC

• Led a 3-tier team, comprising of 50 students and 30 workers, to conduct over 50 Events, 22 Workshops, 17 Professional talks & 2 Grand shows in Techkriti'15- Asia's biggest Technical festival
• Coordinated the inaugural edition of the Techkriti Open School Championship (TOSC), facilitating the participation of 3000 students from 50 schools in Lucknow and Kanpur with an aim to engage aspiring engineering students
• Coordinated with state government officials for conducting and planning security arrangements
• Introduced 1st edition of All India Student Research Competition(AISRC), by integrating presentation events of Techkriti and providing a platform to students in STEM to showcase their research

• 2024, Development of continuous flow microbial fuel cells for acid rock drainage remediation, Sharma R., Donaldson J., & Yadav V. G., Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference (CSChE)
• 2024, A method for assembling conductive polymer electrodes, Sharma R., Morison M. L., & Yadav V. G., Manuscript under prep
• 2024, Pitfalls in evaluation of electrode materials for microbial fuel cells, Sharma R., Morison M. L., & Yadav V. G., Manuscript under prep
• 2023, Scaling up microbial fuel cells for remediation of acid rock drainage, Sharma R., Donaldson J., Wright J., & Yadav V. G., CIM, Montreal
• 2023, Closed-loop vasculature network design for bioprinting large, solid tissue scaffolds, Kumar, H., Dixit, K., Sharma R., MacDonald, M. E., Sinha, N., & Kim, K., Biofabrication
• 2019, Solvent extraction of copper using microstructured droplet generator, Sharma R., Miskovic I., & Miskovic S., Procd. Conference of Metallurgists (COM)
• 2017, The role of pre-existing flows on the onset of slag vortices during emptying of a tundish: a numerical investigation, Sharma R. & Mazumdar D., Procd. 3rd International Conference on Science and Technology of Ironmaking and Steelmaking (STIS)
• 2015, 2-phase metallic thermal interface materials processed by liquid phase sintering followed by accumulative roll bonding, Sharma D., Tiwari R. K., Sharma R., Narayan R. & Kumar P., IEEE-TCPMT