Chandran, Bala, Rohini
Faculty
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Topics
» CO2 Capture, Storage and Use
» Energy Storage
Biography
Rohini Bala Chandran is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan. She obtained her B.S. (2008) from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS-Pilani), India, an M.S (2010) and a Ph.D. (2015) from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, all in Mechanical Engineering. She was a postdoctoral researcher at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory between 2015-2017 in the Energy Storage & Distributed Resources division. Her research interests include thermal and fluid sciences, multiscale computational model development, radiative heat transfer, optics, chemical kinetics of heterogeneous reactions, electrochemical engineering, and semiconductor physics.
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ME assistant professor awarded 2023 ASME Bergles-Rohsenow Young Investigator Award in Heat Transfer
05/18/2023
Rohini Bala Chandran has been recognized for having “demonstrated the potential to make significant contributions to the field of heat transfer.”
Rohini Bala Chandran receives NSF Career Award for study of radiative transport
07/19/2022
Dr. Bala Chandran's proposal, titled “Understanding Radiative Transport in Flowing and Reactive Participating Media with Integrated Models and Measurements,” seeks to develop and deploy predictive models integrated with experimental measurements to establish a more fundamental and holistic understanding of flow-radiation-reaction interactions in various thermal and solar energy systems.
$3.4M to turn up the heat at solar-thermal plants
11/23/2021
Improved heat-trapping materials for solar thermal energy could help the U.S. meet its goal of cutting solar energy costs in half by 2030.
Research labs practice flexibility and creativity to create a new normal
08/03/2020
As research begins to ramp back up in G.G. Brown, we find out how faculty and students are making changes to safely re-enter their workspace.
Solar-powered wastewater treatment coupled with energy and nutrient recovery
01/28/2020
"Our goal is to identify solar-powered wastewater nitrate treatment pathways that facilitate the recovery of energy by producing value-added chemicals from these nutrients," said Bala Chandran. The work is funded by Bala Chandran’s startup funds and MCubed, a University initiative to encourage innovative, interdisciplinary research. The project marries fundamental materials-scale catalysis, physics-based modeling, and experimental investigations.
Bala Chandran's Paper Published in Energy and Environmental Science
01/31/2018
Assistant Professor Bala Chandran's research featured on inside front cover of high impact journal Energy and Environmental Science.