Dr. Kawnish Kirtania is an Associate Professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET). He completed his M.Sc. and B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET). After that, he received his PhD in Chemical Engineering from Monash University, Australia in 2014. Post PhD, he had worked at Lulea University of Technology, Sweden as a Post-doctoral researcher (2015-2017) to demonstrate catalytic gasification of biomass in pilot scale.

Dr. Kawnish Kirtania is involved in a number of interdisciplinary research projects funded by USAID, NASEM (USA), EPRC (BD), BANBEIS (BD) and Unilever (BD). He has published more than 40 scientific papers in international peer reviewed journals with two book chapters (Elsevier) and made more than 40 conference contributions. He has been also serving as a reviewer for 17 international journals.

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