Abhijit Guha

Biography

Abhijit Guha obtained a Bachelor of Engineering degree from the Mechanical Engineering Department of Jadavpur University and a Master of Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc Bangalore). He ranked first at IISc by a large margin. He then went to Trinity College, University of Cambridge, holding the Prince of Wales Scholarship (one scholarship across all disciplines awarded to the best candidate of all Commonwealth countries including U.K.) and an Honorary Nehru Scholarship (India), and received his PhD from the Engineering department of University of Cambridge. He was a Senior Rouse Ball Scholar at Trinity College during 1989- 90. In 1990 a number of top Cambridge colleges simultaneously offered him the rare distinguished opportunity of becoming a Fellow at those colleges; he accepted the offer from Gonville & Caius College and became a Fellow there. While at Cambridge, his research was based at the Whittle Laboratory.

Research Interest

Fluid Mechanics (Incl. Bio, Multiphase) Heat Transfer & Thermal Science Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)