Ravi X. Fernandes

Fernandes was born on August 6, 1975 in Goa, India, the youngest of three children to Ilario Manoel Fernandes and Raquelina Olmira Fernandes. He completed high school at St. Rocks High Schoolhttps://www.icbse.com/schools/st-rocks-high-school-1lg37q with distinctions and was the first student to do so in the school. 
== Education and Research Career ==
Fernandes graduated in Chemistry from Parvatibai Chowgule College in 1995 with a Bachelor's Degree of Science in Chemistry and later on pursued a Master’s degree in Physical Chemistry at the Goa University. During his Master's thesis, he worked on heterogeneous catalysis of Nickel based Zeolite supported catalysts for methanol synthesis. His interests in chemical kinetics, catalysis and physical chemistry were kindled that he decided to pursue a career in Physical chemistry. After a brief teaching assignment at the Government College of Arts Science and Commerce in Quepem, lecturing in Physical Chemistry for the Bachelor's course, Fernandes decided to move to Karlsruhe in Germany to pursue a Ph. D (Promotion in German).
In 2000 he joined the research group of Prof. Horst Hippler, working on shock waves to investigate the reaction kinetics of small hydrocarbon species related to soot formation in combustion processesFernandez, R. X. Shock tube investigations of the reaction kinetics of small unsaturated hydrocarbon species; Dissertation: Universität Karlsruhe, Cuvillier Verlag: Göttingen, 2003. After earning his Ph. D in 2003, Fernandes received a fellowship from the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, working together with Prof. Jürgen Troehttps://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/604660.html and Prof. Klaus Lutherhttps://www.researchgate.net/profile/Klaus-Luther at the Max-Planck Institute and the University of Göttingen in Germany. He primarily worked there on high-pressure gas-phase kinetics of alkyl oxidation reactions. In 2008, they published the experimental and modeling study of the key recombination reaction of H+O2 (+M) reporting the first experimental kinetic data for a combination of extreme temperature and pressure of 900 K & 950 bar. Due to his experience in high-pressure combustion kinetics, he was offered a postdoctoral position at the Sandia National Laboratories, working with Dr. Craig Taatjeshttps://www.linkedin.com/in/craig-taatjes-a7877a5/?trk=public-profile-join-page at the Combustion Research Facility.
In 2009, Fernandes returned to Germany as a Junior professorhttp://www.pcfc.rwth-aachen.de/rxf.html in Physico-Chemical Fundamentals of Combustion at the Mechanical Engineering Faculty of the RWTH Aachen University. He initiated several interdisciplinary projects both at the national and international levels. In 2012, he was awarded the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science visiting professorship at the University of Tokyo in Japan.
== Professional Life ==
In April 2013, Fernandes was appointed the Head of the Physical Chemistry Department (formerly “Thermophysical Properties”) where he started his own research group on reaction kinetics similar to that of the National Institute of Standards and Technology towards a focus on fluid energy carriers and chemical energy conversion, these being the emerging research fields due to the Germanys leading role in the energy transition towards sustainable and renewable energy. He is involved in joint research activities in energy metrology together with Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt and the Technical University of Braunschweig and a member of several research initiatives such as the Excellence Cluster for Sustainable and Energy Efficient Aviation (SE2A), The Hydrogen Innovation laboratory together with several other research institutes and Universities in the State of Lower Saxony.
== Notable Accomplishments and Memberships ==
In recognition of his research accomplishments in the field of combustion, Fernandes was awarded an Honorary title (academic) professorship at the institute of internal combustion engines (ivB) of the TTechnical University of Braunschweig, where he conducts teaching and research in combustion. In 2012, he was awarded the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Visiting Professorship at the Department of Chemical Science and Engineering of the University of Tokyo.
In 2014 he was elected the Chairman of the Technical Committee 20https://www.imeko.org/index.php/tc20-homepage/tc20-members/975-ravi-xavier-fernandes “Measurements of Energy and Related Quantities” of International Measurement Confederation (IMEKO). He currently serves on the Advisory Board of the FAM a section of the Deutsches Institut für Normung Standards Committee for Materials Testing, responsible for the standardization of Petroleum, Fuel, Lubricant, and Related Products.
Fernandes is an active member of research clusters such as the Fuels Joint Research Group (FJRG), the Mobilise Cluster of the Technical University of Braunschweig, the State Energy Research Center of Lower Saxony (EFZN). He collaborates with the NFF and NFL both in Braunschweig. He previously participated in the Technology Collaboration of the International Energy Agency on Combustion and the European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST Action) on the Chemistry of Smart Energy Carriers and Technologies. Furthermore, he is a member of the Indian, German and Portuguese Sections of the The Combustion Institute and the German Bunsen Society for Physical Chemistry.
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