Ashish Sharma
5/30 New Rajendra Nagar Aligarh, UP-202001 India
E-mail: el: +91-96437-19974
Research interests/Expertise
Air quality and climate change, corporate sustainability, environmental impact assessment, life cycle assessment, life cycle costing, renewable energy technologies and strategic environmental assessments
Key attributes and skills
- Ability to think broadly across several focus areas and bring together an optimized solution.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Excellent at team workdemonstrated throughhigh impact research output while working for interdisciplinary research projects.
- The ability to produce and review high quality reports to predefined deadlines.
- Possess strong analytical and problem solving skills, demonstrated through researchoutput generated in previous research labs in South Korea, USA and Australia.
- Flexible, adaptable and keen to take initiatives, established new collaborations with different research groups while working as a research assistant at Korea, USA & Australia.
Relevant working experience
November, 2016 ~Present IDSPL Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, India
Job Title: Principal Sustainability Consultant
Responsibilities
-Conducting a variety of project activities including the preparation of project proposals.
-Communicating, and liaising for developing new opportunities for Sustainability Projects.
-Conceptualization of project components, providing technical inputs (energy simulation and energy system integration), project management and networking with stakeholders.
-Designing workshops (charrettes) with public / private builders to promote integrated design process for knowledge dissemination.
-Researching strategies for implementing energy conservation building code (ECBC) in India.
-Presenting energy efficiency implementation strategies to the secretary of ministry of urban development in different states of India.
-Formulate and communicate recommendations regarding strategies to improve sustainability performance while identifying risks and concerns associated with environmental and sustainability impacts.
-Researching technical issues as part of the sustainability reporting process and to provide ideas and potential solutions to the sustainability reporting team to improve project performance.
-Preparationand reviewof Environmental Impact Statements and Assessments, sustainability reports, and articles.
-To keep up to date with relevant environmental legislation/policy/guidance.
May, 2016 ~ October, 2016 HBD Services, NSW, Australia
Job Title: Head, Marketing & Intl. Communications
Responsibilities
-Responsible for company profiling, brand promotion strategies, and preparing company portfolio.
-Responsible for developing formal partnerships with colleges, institutions and universities within and outside Australia.
-Designing proposals of agreements and expression of interests for national and international collaborations.
-Managing inventories and databases of potential collaborators for HBD Services in middle-east, Asia pacific and selected European countries.
-Responsible for recruiting business development managers and consultants for HBD Services.
-Directing a team of 6 people in branding, web designing, producing & creating marketing products and designing company documents such as brochures, business communication letters and proposals of agreements.
July 2015 ~ July, 2016 Macquarie University, NSW, Australia
Title: Research Assistant Dep’t of Environmental Sciences
Responsibilities
-Conducting Literature survey for cutting edge renewable energy technologies for sustainable transport sector.
-Simulation using professional life cycle assessment models such as Simapro, Argonne GREET Model and US EPA models.
-Performing Sustainability assessment of alternative transport fuels and powertrain technologies.
-Performing scenario modelling and techno-economic analysis for state of the art renewable energy technologies.
-Developing sustainability indicators and sustainability metrics for renewable energy technologies.
January 2015 ~ June 2015 The University of Toledo, USA
Title: Research and Teaching Assistant Dep’t of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Responsibilities
-Conducting Literature survey for cutting edge solar photovoltaic technologies.
-Simulation using professional life cycle assessment models such as GaBi (version 6) LCA software.
-Performing life cycle sustainability analysis (LCSA) of thin film solar cell (PV) technologies and compare them to different alternatives.
-Performing scenario modelling and economic evaluation of latest thin film solar cell technologies.
-Writing research grant proposals, reports and scientific articles for publication into peer-reviewed journals.
-Performing duties of a Teaching Assistant(TA) for fluid mechanics and introduction to air pollution.
-Designing curriculum and updating chapters for introduction to air pollution course.
-Presenting research findings in conferences, workshops and symposiums.
-Coordinating and performing outreach activities for raising awareness about solar photovoltaic technologies in high-school students.
2012 ~ 2014 Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, S. Korea
Title: Research Assistant Climate Modeling Laboratory
Responsibilities
-Assessing climatic benefits of mitigating transport sector Black Carbon emissions in India.
-Inventorying Black Carbon and Particulate Matter emissions data for transport sector in India.
-Data Analysis of transport sector Black Carbon emissions in India.
-Installation and running of US EPA MOVES model.
Education
2015~2016Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
Master of Research (MRes) degree in Environmental Science
CGPA: 89.3% (High Distinction)
Thesis Topic: Life cycle environmental and economic impact assessment of alternative transport fuels and powertrain technologies.
2012~2014Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, South-Korea
M.S. degree in Environmental Science and Engineering (GPA:3.61/4.5)
Thesis Topic: The climatic benefits of black carbon emission reduction when India adopts US on-road emission levels.
2008~2012Aligarh Muslim University, India
Bachelor of Technology in Civil Engineering
Project Title: Soil Investigation and Design of Piles and Well Foundation for Bridges. (Supervised by Prof. S.S. Shah and Dr. Mehboob Anwer Khan)
Peer-reviewed publications
- Ganesan, K., Chozan, R.K., & Sharma, A. (2017). Benefits of ECBC Implementation in India: A Case Study of Karnataka. Shashwat, 3(3) pp. 39-42.
- Sharma, A., & Strezov, V. (2016). Life cycle sustainability assessment of alternative transport fuels and powertrain technologies. The Energy, manuscript submitted.
- Sharma, A., & Chung, C. E. (2015). Climatic benefits of black carbon emission reduction when India adopts the US on-road emission level.Future Cities and Environment,1(1), 13.
- Khan, I., Sharma, A. (2012). Nanotechnology for Sustainable Development: Reducing Carbon Emissions through Clean Energy Technologies. International Journal of Systems, Algorithms & Applications (IJSAA), 2(5).pp.29-32.
- Sharma, A., Islam, M., Khan, N.A. (2011). Role of Nanotechnology for Sustainable Development of Concrete. Int. Journal. of Technology And Engineering System (IJTES), 2(1).pp.16-21.
Conference proceedings
- Sharma, A., Khan, I. (2011). Low carbon Futures. Proceedings of the International Conference on Manufacturing Excellence, (2011), Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India.
- Sharma, A., Islam, S. (2010). Sustainable Sources of Energies: Promising alternatives to the conventional sources of energies. Proceedings of the International Conference on Emerging Technologies for Sustainable Environment, (2010b), Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Presentations
- Climatic benefits of black carbon emission reduction. Spring Conference: Hot Environmental Topics in Northwest Ohio, The Northern Ohio Chapter of The Air & Waste Management Association, The University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio, USA, April 22, 2015(Oral presentation).
- Applying life cycle approach for evaluating environmental impacts of carbonnano-tubephoto-voltaicsystems. Spring Conference: Hot Environmental Topics in Northwest Ohio, The Northern Ohio Chapter of The Air & Waste Management Association, The University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio, USA, April 22, 2015 (Poster presentation).
Workshops attended
- Successfully graduated with Macquarie Global Leadership Programme - Postgraduate (MQ GLP)Session 2 2015 at Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia (Date of Award: November 6, 2015; Duration: August 2015 to November 2015).
- Green Energy Ohio Workshop: Ohio’s Big Solar Business: Commercial & Community Solar Application at Toledo, OH, USA, March 27, 2015.
- 2015COBIAdvanced Leadership Academy at The University of Toledo College of Business and Innovation, Toledo, OH, USA, Mar 21st, Mar 28th, and April 11th, 2015.
Technical Skills
Modelling withSimaPro, Argonne’s GREET model and GaBi;Data analysis with Origin and Excel.
Awards and Fellowships
-Selected for International Macquarie University Research Excellence Scholarship (iMQRES), NSW, Australia (2015-2016).
-Offered Teaching Assistantship for doctorate program at The College of Engineering, The University of Toledo, OH (USA) with full tuition waiver (January, 2015 ~ May, 2015).
-Recipient of Korean Government Scholarship, GIST (Gwangju), South Korea (2012-2014).
-Qualified All India Exam Graduate Aptitude Test for Engineers (GATE’12) conducted by IITs.
-Invited as a Guest Speaker at Gwangju International Centre, Gwangju, South Korea in 2013.
Professional references
Available upon request.
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