Nationality Indian Residence India | Name Priyadarshini Karve Fields Renewable energy | |
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Institutions Appropriate Rural Technology Institute Notable awards Ashden Award for Renewable Energy, Prof. Yashwantrao Kelkar Youth Award, World Technology Award Alma mater Savitribai Phule Pune University | ||
Amhi durga 290911 priyadarshini karve
Priyadarshini Karve (born 1971) is an Indian physicist and inventor. She is currently the Managing Director at Samuchit EnviroTech Pvt Ltd (SET) (2005 onwards), Pune, and also Chairman of the Board of Directors, Nexus Carbon for Development Singapore, a not-for-profit international alliance of NGOs and social enterprises (2011 onwards). She is also a visiting faculty at the Symbiosis School for Liberal Arts (Symbiosis International University) and her courses are mainly related to Sustainable Development, Climate Change, Impact of Science and Technology on History, renewable energy, sustainable development, and other social and educational issues (207 onwards). She is a Co-Editor, Shaikshanik Sandarbh Bimonthly, a periodical on Science and Education. She is an honorary faculty for a number of local, national and international workshops and short term courses related to science education, sustainable development, renewable energy technology, energy policy, energy and gender, climate change, etc. (2000 onwards).
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- Amhi durga 290911 priyadarshini karve
- Priyadarshini karve director samuchit enviro tech
- Education and Career
- Honors and Awards
- Publications
- References
Priyadarshini karve director samuchit enviro tech
Education and Career
Karve did her M.sc. (Physics with Specialisation: Energy Studies, LASER), University of Pune, 1993, and later pursued her Ph.D. (Physics) from the University of Pune in 1998. As a student, she worked on a three-month project to create compact fuel for stoves used in rural areas using sawdust and sand. Her experience with the sooty, inefficient stoves that rural women dealt with on a daily basis spurred her to join the Appropriate Rural Technology Institute, an NGO based in Maharashtra, where she experiments with cook stove designs and biomass fuels. She also endeavoured to develop a sustainable channel for people in rural areas to access biomass energy technologies. She was part of the team that developed the biowaste-to-charcoal technology, which won the Ashden Award for Renewable Energy in 2002.