Prof. Jitendra Kumar

Curriculum Vitae

born 1978 in Bijnor, India

October 2001 – September 2003
Master of Science in Industrial Mathematics: Modelling and Scientific Computing at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern, Germany. Thesis: Simulation studies of the electret effect in filters.

October 2003 – September 2006
Ph.D. in Mathematics at the Department of Mathematics, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany. Thesis: Numerical approximations of population balance equations in particulate systems.

October 2006 – July 2009
Research Associate and Teaching Assistant at the Department of Mathematics, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany.

July 2009 – to date
Assistant Professor at the Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India.

January 2013 – July 2015
Alexander-von-Humboldt Fellow at the Chair of Thermal Process Engineering, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany.

Since 2014
Associate Professor at IIT Kharagpur, India

Research Topics

Numerical solution of population balance equations
Mathematical modelling of process kinetics of particulate systems
Monte Carlo simulations of population balances

Publications

List of publications

Contact

Jitendra Kumar
Associate Professor
Department of Mathematics
IIT Kharagpur
Kharagpur, India
jkumar@maths.iitkgp.ac.in