Dr Mahesh Suryawanshi
Lecturer
2011 - 2015 - Ph. D. in Physics (Materials Science), Shivaji University, India
2008 - 2010 - M.Sc. in Physics (Energy Science), Shivaji University, India
Engineering
Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering
Dr. Mahesh P. Suryawanshi is an ARC DECRA Fellow & Lecturer in the School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering (SPREE) at UNSW Sydney.
He graduated with a BSc (Physics) in 2008 from the Shivaji University, India, followed by an MSc in Physics (Energy Science) in 2010 where he was supervised by Prof. P. S. Patil, also at the Shivaji University, India. Always keen on contributing to the renewable energy field, he then joined for Ph. D. at Shivaji University in 2011 and moved to Chonnam National University, South Korea under 'Doctoral Exchange Program' from 2012 to 2015 to work on earth-abundant compounds for solar energy conversion applications under the supervision of Prof. Jin Hyeok Kim and Prof. A. V. Moholkar.
After graduating in 2015, he was then awarded by Brain Korea (BK) -21 Fellowship to continue his postdoctoral research work with Prof. Jin Hyeok Kim at Chonnam National University, South Korea. He started a solar fuels research subgroup with Prof. Kim to investigate earth-abundant photoelectrodes and catalysts for solar-driven hydrogen generation. In June 2019, he joined the SPREE, UNSW Sydney as a Postdoctoral Fellow to develop new PV materials as top cells for Si with Prof. Xiaojing Hao and Prof. Martin Green.
Starting January 2021, Mahesh took his ARC DECRA fellowship at SPREE, UNSW Sydney with a vision to establish Multifunctional NanoMaterials and Devices subgroup and foster international collaborations.
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Location
School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering,
Tyree Energy Technologies Building (TETB) H6, Level 2
UNSW Sydney,
NSW 2033 Australia
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2023-2026 - ARC DP (DP230101676), $326,000
2021-2024 - ARC DECRA Fellowship (DE210101565), $423,193
2019-2021 - Early Career Researcher Award (APOSTD/2019/078), European Commission, $190,000
2017-2019 - National Research Foundation (NRF), Korea (NRF2019M1A2A2936784), $156,000
2018-2019 - National Research Foundation (NRF), Korea (NRF2018H1D3A2002154, $76,000
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2019-2021 - Early Career Researcher Award by Generalitat Valenciana, Spain & European Commission
2018 - Best Presentation Award, 7th Asia-Pacific Forum on Renewable Energy (AFORE) 2018, Korea
2016-2019 - Brain Korea (BK)-21 Postdoctoral Fellowship, South Korea
2015 - Key Scientific Article Award, Renewable Energy Global Innovations Series (REGI), Canada
2012-2015 - International Doctoral Exchange Student Scholarship, NRF, South Korea
2009 - Eklayva Scholarship, Shivaji University, India
Dr. Mahesh's research interests include:
Nanocrystals/Quantum dots
- Design and developments of earth-abundant halide, chalcogenide, chalcohalide, phosphide and nitride nanocrystals/quantum dots
- Surface Ligand Engineering, shape, size and composition tuning, self-assembly
- Also interested in developing automated nanocrystal syntheses in gram scale
Energy Applications
- Solar-driven hydrogen generation using nanocrystals/quantum dots-based and direct ink processed thin films.
- Solution-processed inorganic thin film solar cells
- Quantum dots solar cells.
- Future Interest: Luminiscent solar concentrators (LSCs) and Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) based on nanocrystals/quantum dots
Electrocatalysis
- Colloidal nanoelectrocatalysts
- Heterostructures carbon-based compounds
- Hydrogen evolution reaction, oxygen evolution reactions and alternative oxidation reactions, For e.g., Hydrazine, Methanol, Urea, Glycerol etc.
- In-Situ Operando characterizations of the electrocatalysts
My Research Supervision
Xinyao Guo (HDR)
Yiming Xia (HDR)
Yangfan Zhang (HDR)
Hongrui Zhang (HDR)
Mani Mani (HDR)
Thalpavila Samarsinghe (HDR)
Muhammad Ibrar Ahmed (Research Assistant)
My Teaching