Events & News

September 04, 2026 Conducted a Technical Session on "Advance Clean Energy Systems" at ASME IMECE India-2026, Chennai, India
June 03, 2026 New publication: Pathy P.P. & Punetha M., CFD-based thermal hydraulic modelling of SMR containment during steam leakage, Nuclear Engineering and Design
January 16, 2026 Speaker at UKIERI-SPARC Workshop on Digital Analysis of Flow Processes in Porous Materials for Geo-Energy Applications, at IIT Bhubaneswar, Odisha-752051, India
November 07, 2025 Lecture series on, "Small Modular Reactors (SMR): A future of nuclear energy," for MMTTP Short Term Training Program, at IIT (ISM) Dhanbad, Dhanbad, Jharkhand-826004, India
August 07 - 08, 2025 Keynote Speaker at 3rd Biennial International Symposium on Fluids and Thermal Engineering (FLUTE - 2025), Noida, U.P., India
December 21 - 23, 2024 Organised a special session on Late Prof. Sameer Khandekar in 11th International and 51st National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power (FMFP - 2024), AMU Campus, Aligarh, U.P., India
December 15, 2023 I joined as an Assistant Professor at School of Mechanical Sciences, Institute of Technology, Bhubaneswar, India
November 8-9, 2023 Presented work on 'Underwater Simulant-Corium Melt Spreading' at International Workshop on Fuel-Coolant Interaction and Steam explosion, Fontenay-aux-Roses (France)
October 26-27, 2023 Got chance to interact with experts on the Nuclear Safety in Nationella strålsäkerhets- och forskningsdagar (National Radiation Safety and Research Days) in Stockholm, Sweden
April 2-7, 2023 Presented paper at 11th International Conference on Multiphase Flow (ICMF-2023), Kobe International Conference Center, at Kobe, Japan
December 13-14, 2022 Attended ROSAU Project Progress Review Group Meeting at OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) Headquaters at Paris, France
June 21, 2021 Joined as Postdoctoral Fellow in Nuclear Power Safety Division, Department of Physics, School of Engineering Sciences, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
October 22, 2020 I have recieved the "Outstanding Ph. D. Thesis of the Year" award on 53rd Convocation (2020) of IIT Kanpur, Kanpur, India

August 03, 2020 Joined as Senior Research Fellow with Prof. Sameer Khandekar, Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kanpur, Kanpur, India

July 30, 2020 Sucessfully defended my doctoral thesis on "Containment Thermal Hydraulic Studies towards Understanding Post-Severe Nuclear Accident Scenario"