KKU Research Division

Visiting Professors

International scholar, in-bound, out-bound exchanged researcher and professor

Researcher's Profile

Professor Gopalakrishnan Kumar Institute of chemistry, Bioscience and Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Science and Technology University of Stavanger, Stavanger, Norway

PEDAGOGICAL AND SUPERVISION
  • Completed UniPED (University Pedagogical training for Higher Education) (2020-2022)
  • NyTi Course (Completed training as University Teaching) (2019)
  • Ph D Supervision Course (Completed in 2021)
OPERATIONAL-LEADERSHIP/COORDINATION ACTIVITIES
  • Head, ESNL (Energy-Sustainability Nexus Laboratory), UiS, Norway (Main Supervisor, 12 members, Ph D, Post doc, MS students) (https://sites.google.com/view/energysustainability-nexus?pli=1), addition 2-3 ERASMUS internship students/year
  • Group Leader, Chemistry and Environmental Engineering, Institute of Chemistry, Bioscience and Environmental Engineering, UiS, Norway (Co-ordination between dean and staff of 10)
  • Leader and Co-Ordinator, ScERC (Sustainability and Circular Economy Research Cluster), (> 40 researchers) University of Stavanger, Norway (https://www.uis.no/en/research/sustainability-and-circular-economy-research-clusterscerc)
  • RFC (Research Field Co-Ordinator), Circular Economy, ECIU- European Consortium of Innovative Universities (https://www.eciu.eu/smart-er-for-researchers), including TEC, Mexico
  • Senior member and Advisor, EPML- Research group, Yonsei University, South Korea (>25 members, Co-Supervised/ing) (https://sites.google.com/site/energyreuselab/)
  • Co-Supervision of Ph D students and Post Docs (Univ of Mauritius- 2, Central University Tamilnadu-India-3, KMU-Taiwan-5 Internship students)
  • EU Chair, ACCE-Association for A Carbon Neutral Circular Economy (https://ia2ce.org/about-the-team/)
  • Co-Ordinator, Circular Bioeconomy section, KO-NO Research event, (~150 , expected, Researchers, policy makers, Government officials, etc) https://norwayevent.com/events/seoul-research-networking-event-2023/
  • Management Committee member, Cost-Action (Purple gain)-CA21146
  • Working Group member, Cost-Actions (3)-CA20133, CA20127, CA201146.
  • Supervised/Co-Supervised > 10 PhD, 4 Post Doc, 20 MS and 10 BS and 8 Intern students.
  • Holding Visiting professorship/researcher in more than 10 universities in various countries (Poland, Czech, Taiwan, India, Korea, Malaysia, Thailand, Hungary, China, Slovakia, Latvia and others)
PROFESSIONAL Editorial/ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES
  • Editor, Decarbon (2024-now)
  • Associate Editor, Industrial Bioresource Engineering (2024-now)
  • Editorial board member (active-now):
    • Biotechnology Reports (CS:15.1)
    • Journal of Environmental Science and Engineering (Scopus)
    • Systems Microbiology and Biomanufacturing (Scopus)
    • Journal of Korean Society for Environmental Engineers
    • Asia-Pacific Journal of Science and technology (Scopus)
  • Past Editorial board member/Editor (completed):
    • Bioresource technology (Elsevier, IF: 11.8) (2020-2023)
    • Energies (IF: 3.5) (2021-2023)
    • Processes (IF: 3.2) (2021-2023)
    • e-Prime (Scopus) (2021-2023)
  • Associate Editor:
    • Frontiers in Sustainability (2021-2023)
  • Review Editor:
    • Frontiers a) Sustainable chemical process design, b) Bioenergy and Biofuels (2020-23)
  • Guest Editor: >25, Q1-Q2 journals (few listed)
    • Biomass and Bioenergy (ongoing)
    • Bioresource Technology,
    • International Journal of Energy Research
    • FUEL
    • Energy and Environment
    • International Biodeterioration and Biodegradation (IBB)
    • Journal of Environmental and Chemical Engineering
    • Chemosphere
    • Journal of Environmental Management
    • Waste and biomass Valorization (WAVE)
    • International Journal of Hydrogen Energy (IJHE)
    • Frontiers in Energy Research
    • Membranes
    • Energies
    • Biotechnology Reports
    • Environmental Science and Pollution Research
    • Bioresource Technology Reports
    • Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy and others
PROFESSIONAL ORGANISATIONAL ACTIVITIES
  • General Chair (2021, 2022, 2023) (ca.100-150 participants) ICPPCT series,
    http://icppct.com/
  • Co-Chair (2021-2024), 3rd-i-RESEAT (ca.150-200 participants), Thailand, http://ireseat.mju.ac.th/
  • Co-Chair (2021), 3rd-EsChE, Malaysia, (> 100 participants)
    https://esche.ump.edu.my/index.php/en/
  • Series Chair and Co-founder (2016-2019), Series Co-Chair, ICAFEE Series- (> 600 participants) http://www.icaf-e.com/
  • Co-Chair (2019), WEEN conference (> 100 participants) – http://gnrwebs.org/viewjc.php?id=c38
  • Co-Chair, ISBINRU-2017, Symposium of Bio-economics on Natural Resources
    Utilization (Food, Health, Energy and Environment, Oct 12-14, Indonesia (> 50 participants)
  • Scientific/International advisory Committee member (> 30 conferences, BRSI Series, IFIOB series, IWA series, PZE series, etc)
KKU Research Sharing:
Mourning Ribbon