Rajnish Kumar | |
Birth Place: | Madhya Pradesh, India |
Nationality: | Indian |
Fields: | Chemical engineering |
Known For: | Studies on clathrate hydrates, clathrates and carbon capture and storage |
Rajnish Kumar is an Indian chemical engineer who specialises in clathrate hydrates and gas hydrates. He is a professor in the department of chemical engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras.[1] He received the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in 2022.[2] [3]
In 2018, Clarivate Analytics named him as one of the World's Most Influential Scientific Minds and a Highly Cited Researcher in the field of engineering.[4] [5] He received the NASI–Scopus Young Scientist Award for the year 2016.[6] [7]