THEMATIC AREAS
TECHNOLOGIES FOR HYDROGEN PRODUCTION AND STORAGE, ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY ENERGY CARRIERS AND CO2 RECYCLING
- Transformation of by-products and bioderived products into environmentally friendly energy carriers;
- Power to gas (methanation)
- Green ammonia synthesis
- Hydrogen production from fossil fuels and green ammonia
APPLICATIONS OF TECHNOLOGIES AND INTEGRATED SYSTEMS FOR ENERGY EFFICIENCY – SMART ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES
- Hydrogen generation and storage systems
EDUCATION
- Master’s degree in Chemistry, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala,India
- Ph.D. in Science (Chemical sciences), Academy of Scientific and innovative Research (AcSIR), CSIR-NIIST, Kerala India.
WORK EXPERIENCE
- From 01/02/2023 continuing Assegnista CNR-ITAE,
- From 01/02/2022 to 30/01/2023, Assegno Post dottorale, CNR-ITAE,
- From 01/12/2020 to 30/11/2021, Borsista di Ricerca,University of Calabria,
- From 01/10/201to903/11/2020 Assegnista Di Ricerca, da University of Calabria,
- 17/09/2018 al 30/03/2019, Project Assistant, (CSIR- NIIST), Kerala, India.
RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
Dr. Thomas has research experience in Material Science, with a focus on the preparation and characterization of high surface area porous materials for energy storage and generation applications. She has been awarded with University Grant Commission junior research fellowship for the Doctoral program at CSIR-NIIST, Kerala, India. Her research includes heteroatom doped carbons, MOFs, mesoporous materials, and 2D materials such as graphene and carbon nitrides. (ACS applied materials interfaces 8 (43), 29373-29382,2016). Later she has been part of developing high surface area electrode materials for supercapacitors and flexible prototypes under different projects (INNENERMAT and BiS-Cap) ((Journal of Alloys and Compounds 960, 170719,2023). Currently, Dr. Thomas is associated with the FPMAT group, where she is working on the development of structured catalysts (monoliths, foams, POCS) for the synthesis of Hydrogen, Methane and Ammonia under various projects such as ANDREAH, AMBHER PLUG-IN. Dr. Thomas has published nine papers with an h-index of seven.
