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Prof. Abhijeet Raj

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• Email raj@iitd.ac.in

Abhijeet Raj is a Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at IIT Delhi, which he joined as Associate Professor in 2022 and where he has been Professor since July 2025. He took his PhD at the University of Cambridge in 2010 and his B.Tech. at IIT Guwahati in 2006. Before returning to India he spent nine years in the UAE, as Assistant Professor at The Petroleum Institute and then Associate Professor at Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, and three years at KAUST in Saudi Arabia as a postdoctoral fellow and research scientist.

His research spans combustion kinetics, soot and pollutant formation, acid gas processing and hydrogen production. He is an Editor of the Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering (Elsevier) and is listed among the top 2% of scientists worldwide by citation impact in the Stanford University ranking.

• Fuel combustion and pollutant emission reduction
• Acid gas process modelling and simulation
• Hydrogen and syngas
• Reaction kinetics and mechanism development

• Ph.D., University of Cambridge, UK — 2010
• B.Tech., Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India — 2006

• Professor, IIT Delhi — July 2025 to present
• Associate Professor, IIT Delhi — July 2022 to July 2025
• Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi — 2018–2022
• Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering, The Petroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi — 2013–2018
• Postdoctoral Fellow and Research Scientist, KAUST, Saudi Arabia — 2010–2013
• Visiting Research Scholar, University of Queensland, Australia — 2005