Awards & Recognitions

Editorial Board Member:

• Editorial Board Member, Scientific Reports, Springer Nature Publications (August 2026 – till date).
• Guest Editor, for Research Topic “Organic Chemistry of Advanced Biofuel Molecules” to be published in “Scientific Reports” by Springer Nature Publications, August 2026.
• Editorial Board Member, Advances in Agriculture, Wiley Publications (Oct 2025 – September 2026).
• Editor, Biochar X, Maximum Academic Press, (August 2025 – August 2029).
• Associate Editor, Frontiers in Energy Research Journal (Advanced Clean Fuel Technologies section), Frontiers Publications (July 2024 – till date).
• Associate Editor, Frontiers in Energy Research Journal (Bioenergy and Biofuels section), Frontiers Publications (August 2022 – till date).
• Guest Co-Editor, for Research Topic "Towards a Low-carbon Transportation Future" of the journal “Frontiers in Energy Research” (Advanced Clean Fuel Technologies section) by Frontiers Publications, August 2022.
• Review Editor, Frontiers in Energy Research (Advanced Clean Fuel Technologies section), Frontiers Publications (July 2021 – till date).

Professional Awards and Fellowships:

• IEI Young Engineers Award for the year 2015 – 2016 in Chemical Engineering Division by The Institution of Engineers (India), 2015.
• New Young Scientist Research Award by the Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences (BRNS), Department of Atomic Energy, GoI, 2016.
• Young Scientist Research Award from Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) sponsored by Department of Science and Technology, GoI, 2013.
• Brunel Research Fellow Award – 2009 by the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851, United Kingdom.
• Visiting Researcher, Department of Chemical and Processing Engineering, University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom (June – July 2016).

Fellow of Professional Organizations:

• Fellow (No. F-1295531), Chemical Engineering Division of the Institution of Engineers (India) India, Feb 2023.
• Fellow, Telangana Academy of Sciences, Hyderabad, Telangana, India, 2023.

Best Paper Awards:

• Best Poster Award for paper DFT study on conversion of Lignin-Derived Compounds in Supercritical Water, Methanol, and Ethanol Environments” by PKR Annapureddy and N. Kishore, presented at SUSTAINX 2026: Circularity in Energy, Earth and Environment, An Annual Conference by School of Sustainability, Organized by IIT Madras, India, 24-25 July (2026).
• Best Paper Award for paper “Computational Study on Kinetics of Conversion of Bio-oil Model Compound, Anisole, to Platform Chemicals”, by Kushagra Agrawal and Nanda Kishore presented at International Conference on Recent Advances in Fluid and Thermal Sciences (iCRAFT 2018), Dubai, UAE, 5-7 December 2018.
• Best Paper Award for paper “Gas Phase Kinetic Investigations of Decomposition of Salicylaldehyde over Pd(111) Catalyst Surface” by Anand M Verma, Kushagra Agrawal and Nanda Kishore presented in Reflux 2018 (Annual Chemical Engineering Symposium of IIT Guwahati), March 2018.

Top-Cited and Editor’s Pick Articles: 

• Top 10-Most Cited Papers Published in 2023 by IJCK Journal: N. Thejaswani, PKR Annapureddy, D Rammohan and N. Kishore, “Kinetics and Thermodynamics of Non-Isothermal Pyrolysis of Terminalia Chebula Branches at Different Heating Rates”, International Journal of Chemical Kinetics, 55, 673–687 (2023).
• Editor’s Pick Article: PKR Annapureddy and N. Kishore, “Non-isothermal pyrolysis of Polyalthia longifolia using thermogravimetric analyzer: Kinetics and thermodynamic”, Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy, 15, 053101 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0160104, has been published as Editor’s Pick Article.
• 9^th most cited author in Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews (2018) (source: https://exaly.com/author/8718597/nanda-kishore/rankings).
• 9^th most cited paper in Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews (2018) (source: https://exaly.com/author/8718597/nanda-kishore/rankings).
• 25^th most published author in Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research (2018) (source: https://exaly.com/author/8718597/nanda-kishore/rankings).
• 2^nd most published author in Heat Transfer - Asian Research (2017) (source: https://exaly.com/author/8718597/nanda-kishore/rankings).
• 97^th most cited paper in Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews (2016) (source: https://exaly.com/author/8718597/nanda-kishore/rankings).
• Most cited author 2006-2009, for the paper “Sedimentation in emulsions of mono-size droplets at moderate Reynolds numbers”, Chem. Eng. Res. Des. vol. 84, issue 12A (2006) 1180-1193.

Awards/Achievements of My Research Group:

• M. Tech Thesis (Titled: Kinetics, Thermodynamics and Reaction Mechanism of Pyrolysis of Polyalthia Longifolium and Polypropylene Grocery Bags by Mr. PKR Annapureddy) got Ambuja’s Young Researcher’s Award for doing PG Studies in India by Indian Institution of Chemical Engineers (IIChE) for 2022.
• Visiting Researcher Award to Mr Anjani Ravi Kiran Gollakota (in the research group of Prof Sai Gu) for working on a project supported by EU Marie Curie Grant at Energy & Power Engineering Division of the School of Engineering, “Cranfield University”, United Kingdom (Jan 2014 – June 2014).
• Vising Researcher Award to Mr Anand Mohan Verma (in the research group of Prof. Andreas Heyden) for working at “University of South Carolina”, South Carolina, United States of America (Dec 2017 – June 2018).
• Commonwealth Split-site Scholarship – 2019 to Mr. Kushagra Agrawal, tenable at Cardiff University, United Kingdom (Oct 2019 – Sep 2020).

Session Chair, Resource Person and Advisory Committee Member:

• Advisory Committee Member, 2^nd International Conference on Academic & Industrial Innovations in Engineering (ICAIIE – 2026), Organized by PP Savani University, Surat, India, January 30-31, 2026.
• Session Chair of an oral presentation session in 5^th International Conference on Waste Management, “RECYCLE 2025”, organized by Waste Management Research Group, IIT Guwahati, Assam, India (5 – 6 June 2025).
• Resources Person in UGC-sponsored Two-Week Online Refresher Course on “Advances in Thermal Engineering and their Applications”, conducted by UGC-Malaviya Mission Teacher Training Centre, JNTU Hyderabad, India (Jan 20, 2025 – Feb 1, 2025).
• Session Chair of an oral presentation session in 4^th International Symposium on Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis, “PYROASIA 2024 Conference”, organized at IIT Guwahati, Assam, India, (November 28-29, 2024).
• Resource Person in Two Days International Workshop on “Emerging Trends in Process Engineering and Process Design (ETPE&PD-2024)” organized by the Department of Chemical Engineering, K.K. Wagh Institute of Engineering Education & Research, Nashik, Maharashtra, India, (October, 23-24, 2024).
• Organizing Committee Member of International Conference on Biopolymers and Bioplastics (Biopolymers 2023), Paris, Nov 13-14, 2023.
• Advisory Committee Member of International Conference on Academic & Industrial Innovations in Engineering (ICAIIE – 2023), organized by School of Engineering, P P Savani University (PPSU), Surat, India, 12-13 August 2023.
• National Advisory Committee Member of International Chemical Engineering Conference 2021 (100 Glorious Years of Chemical Engineering & Technology), Chemical Engineering Department, NIT Jalandhar, September 17-19, 2021.
• Resource Person in GUJCOST sponsored Faculty Development Programme on “Green Chemistry & Technology for Sustainable Engineering” Organized by PP Savani University, Surat, Gujrat, India, (Jan 18, 2021).
• Resource Person in AICTE STTP-1 on “Industrial Pollution & Control Strategies” organized by Anurag University, Hyderabad, Telangana, India (Aug 24-29, 2020).
• Resource Person in AICTE STTP-1 on “Computational Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer” organized by Gayatri Vidya Parishad College of Engineering (Autonomous), Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India (Aug 24-29, 2020).
• Organizing Committee Member of 35^th National Convention of Chemical Engineers on “The Food-Energy-Water (FEW) Nexus – Challenges for Chemical Engineers” organized by The Institution of Engineers (India), Assam State Centre, Guwahati, India, 6 – 7 September 2019.
• Resource person in TEQIP short term course on “Advanced Clean Fuel Technologies and Alternative Energy Systems”, Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Guwahati, 7-11 March 2016.
• Session Chair of an oral session in “68^th Annual Session of Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers (CHEMCON – 2015)”, IIT Guwahati, India, 27-30 December (2015).
• Session Chair of an oral session in “International Conference on Computational Heat and Mass Transfer – 2015 (ICCHMT – 2015)” organized by Mathematics Department of NIT Warangal, India, Nov 30 – Dec 02, 2015.
• Session Chair of an oral session in “First Symposium on Advances in Sustainable Polymers (ASP – 2014)” organized by the Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Guwahati, Jan 10 – 11, 2014.
• International Advisory Committee Member of International Conference on “Advances in Mechanical Sciences-2014” organized by the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Vardhaman College of Engineering, Hyderabad, Jan 09 – 11, 2014.
• National Advisory Committee Member of National Conference on “Innovations in Chemical Engineering 2013” organized by the Department of Chemical Engineering, BITS Hyderabad during 15-16, November 2013.
• Resource person in the MHRD, GOI sponsored Short Term Training Program on “Design and Experimental Setups for Engineering Practice”, conducted in National Institute of Technology Warangal, Telangana, India, September 2008.

Outstanding Reviewer:

• Outstanding Reviewer, Journal of Energy Chemistry, Elsevier Publications – Jan 2018
• Outstanding Reviewer, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Elsevier Publications – June 2017
• Outstanding Reviewer, Fuel Processing Technology, Elsevier Publications – Nov 2016

Other Recognitions:

• International Evaluator of the Projects offered by National Agency for Research and Development of the Ministry of Science, Technology, Knowledge and Innovation of Chile (Nov 2024).
• International Reviewer of project proposals offered by Binational Agricultural Research and Development (BARD) fund of USA and Israel, Jan 2024.
• International Examiner of PhD thesis entitled “Lattice-Boltzmann studies on the effect of the morphological properties of porous medium in immiscible displacements”, by Han Zhang of School of Engineering, University of Liverpool, May 2023.
• International Reviewer for Design of Master of Research (MRes) Programme in “Materials Science and Engineering” of Xi’an Jiaotong – Liverpool University, China, Oct, 2021.
• International Reviewer of project proposals funded by XJTLU Research Development Fund of Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China, April 2021.
• International Reviewer of project proposals offered by Binational Agricultural Research and Development (BARD) Fund of United States and Israel, Jan 2019.
• International Reviewer of project Proposals funded by XJTLU Research Development Fund of Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China, May 2017.
• Biography Recorded in “Pearl Anniversary Edition of Who’s Who in the World 2013” by Marquis Who’s Who Publications Board.