IIT Madras launches Shell IITM Centre for Energy Research  

As part of the initiative, Dr Satyanarayanan Seshadri was announced as the first-ever Shell Chair Professor at IIT Madras.

Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) Energy Consortium has partnered with Shell India to launch the Shell IITM Centre for Energy Research (SICER). The collaboration will be centralised under SICER for five years and will promote innovation, research, development, piloting, and commercialisation of technology in the energy sector.

The key likely outcomes include research collaborations in critical challenges and opportunities in the energy transition space, incubation of energy start-ups by leveraging the start-up ecosystem of IIT Madras and the Shell Chair Professorship which will act as a bridge and enable knowledge exchange between Shell and IIT Madras, along with the continuation of Shell’s participation in the Energy Consortium, IIT Madras said in a statement.

As part of the initiative, Dr Satyanarayanan Seshadri was announced as the first-ever Shell Chair Professor at IIT Madras. He is the Head of the Energy Consortium at IIT Madras and a faculty member in the Department of Applied Mechanics and Biomedical Engineering at IIT Madras.

Last month, IIT Madras launched the Mobility and Intelligent Transportation (MInT) collaborative towards building a global mobility digital infrastructure.

Virtually launched at the Mobility Summit by Neeraj Mittal, Secretary in Department of Telecommunications, Government of India, the initiative is based on the principle of “collaborate and compete” under which the Institute will bring together industry competitors, government agencies and academic innovators and co-create the mobility digital infrastructure (Bharat Multi-Modal Mobility Stack or BM3S) to enable holistic system solutions.