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Dr. Pramod M. Gawal is a Chemical Engineer and Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Chemistry at Pusan National University, Busan, South Korea. He received his PhD in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IIT Guwahati), where he was a Prime Minister’s Research Fellow (PMRF). His interdisciplinary research interests include photocatalysis, electrocatalysis, photoelectrocatalysis, CO2 conversion, water splitting and hydrogen production, environmental catalysis, and sustainable chemical processing.

His research integrates catalyst and heterointerface engineering, nanomaterial synthesis, advanced materials characterization, electrochemical and photoelectrochemical analysis, product identification and quantification, and DFT-based computational modeling. He also has experience in downstream bioprocessing and separation technologies for the recovery and purification of fermentation-derived chemicals, giving him a multidisciplinary perspective across catalysis, energy conversion, and sustainable chemical manufacturing.

He holds a Master of Chemical Engineering from the Institute of Chemical Technology (ICT), Mumbai, and a B.Tech in Chemical Engineering from Laxminarayan Institute of Technology (LIT), Nagpur. He previously worked at The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), New Delhi, on downstream processing and purification of fermentation-derived products.

Dr. Gawal has authored 15+ peer-reviewed journal articles, contributed three book chapters, and received several Best Oral and Best Poster Presentation Awards. He is also actively involved in peer review, editorial activities, student mentoring, and research collaborations.

His long-term research vision is to develop integrated catalytic and separation technologies for CO2 utilization, renewable hydrogen generation, value-added chemical production, and environmental applications through interdisciplinary experimental and computational research.