Presentation title: Deoxidizer-oxygen equilibria in steel in the high concentration range

Manish’s research interests include (i) secondary steelmaking, (ii) clean steel production (controlling non-metallic inclusions), (iii) thermodynamics of steel refining reactions, and (iv) simulating high-temperature equilibrium experiments at a laboratory scale. He has over 15 years of experience, of which, he spent > 8 years in academia and ~ 7 years in various steel industries. He has worked on several research projects in the area of steelmaking in India, UK and Europe.

Before joining MEMS, IIT Bombay, he has worked full-time in R&Ds of steel industries in UK (Tata steel Europe/MPI) and India (Essar Steel Ltd.). During his PhD (KU Leuven, Belgium) and post-doc (MU Leoben, Austria), he worked in collaboration with ArcelorMittal Gent and voestalpine, Linz respectively, on the steelmaking projects. Prior to that, he obtained his BE from VRCE (now VNIT) Nagpur and M Tech from IIT Bombay, Mumbai in Metallurgical Engineering.

At IITB, his research group has been working on the experimental and thermodynamic analysis of high alloy steels. He has to his credit more than 20 publications in peer-reviewed international journals and conference proceedings and a US patent.