Inaugural session

• S. Ganesh
  Deputy Director, IIT Kanpur, India
   
• Dave Worsley
  SUNRISE Principal Investigator, Swansea University, UK
   
• Peter Head
  Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Ecological Sequestration Trust, UK
   
• Ellie Gilvin
  UKRI, UK
   
• Sandeep Verma
  Secretary, SERB India
   
• Arun Kumar Tripathi
  Director General National Institute of Solar Energy, MNRE, India

Special session

• Sonam Wangchuk
  India

Session 1B: Waste and Water Management

• T. Pradeep
  IIT Madras, India
   
• Mahesh Gupta
  CMD, Kent RO Systems Ltd., India 
   
• K. P. Bakshi
   

Session 1C: Village Demonstrators

• Khushboo Ahire
  Tata Institute of Social Science, India
   
• Gandharva Pednekar
  Tata Institute of Social Science, India
   
• Ian Mabbett
  Swansea University, UK
   
• Anil K Rajvanshi
  Director, Nimbkar Agricultural Research Institute (NARI), India

Session 2A: Energy Storage

• Vijayamohanan K. Pillai
  IISER Tirupati, India
   
• Jenny Baker
  Swansea University, UK
   
• Anne Sawhney
  Swansea University, UK
   
• Tonderai Mombeshora
  University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
   
• Swati Parmar
  IISER Pune, India
   
• Rathod Suman
  IISc Bangalore, India

Session 2B: Photovoltaics

• Jenny Nelson
  Imperial College London, UK
   
• Phil Sandwell
  Imperial College London, UK
   
• Amitabh Verma
  President, Aditya Birla Renewables Limited, India
   
• Suzanne Thomas
  Swansea University, UK
   
• Philippe Holzhey
  Oxford University, UK
   
• Ganesh N
  JNCASR, India
   
• Carys Worsley
  Swansea University, UK
   
• Diecenia Peralta
  CINVESTAV, Mexico

Session 2C: Energy Integration

• S.C. Srivastava
  IIT Kanpur, India
   
• Justin Searle
  SPECIFIC, UK
   
• David Redpath
  Brunel University, UK
   
• Viresh Patel
  IIT Kanpur, India
   
• Chithambararaj Angamuthuraj
  ISc Bangalore, India

The Conference on Energy Sustainability and Water took place from 22th to 23rd of February, 2021.

This conference was the 7th of the twice-yearly SUNRISE symposia when we emphasize in uniting academics, students, and industry professionals from the UK and Global South in the field of solar and other renewable energy technologies designed for sustainable rural development.

Oral presentation prizes: 

1st place:
Swati Parmar
IISER Pune, India

Presenting: N, H dual-doped titania for superior hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) performance in Alkaline Media.

2nd place:
Philippe Holzhey
Oxford University, UK

Presenting: DMA as excess cation to control the intermediate phase for highly crystalline perovskite solar cells

 

ePoster prizes: 

1st place:
Weidong Xu
Imperial College London, UK 

Presenting: Asymmetric Charge Carrier Transfer and Transport in Planar Lead Halide Perovskite Solar Cells

2nd place:
Tamara McFarlane
Swansea University, UK

Presenting: Co-sensitisation of Perovskite Devices with Organiz Dyes

3rd place:
Prateek
ITT Kanpur, India

Presenting: Rational design of polymer nanocomposite based dielectrics for high energy density capacitor applications.

These prizes have been sponsored by Royal Society of Chemistry