Satyanarayan PatelDr. Patel is currently working as a full-time assistant professor in mechanical engineering at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Indore, India. He supervises Ph.D., master and undergraduate students; and implements a research project funded by Scince and Engineering Research Board (SERB) India. Previously, he worked as a prestigious Alexander Von Humboldt Post-doctoral Fellow in the Nonmetallic-Inorganic Materials Research Group, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany. His research work focuses on bulk lead-free ceramics (piezoelectric and ferroelectric) for energy storage, conversion and caloric effects for solid-state refrigeration. He first demonstrated the elastocaloric and barocaloric effect in bulk ferroelectric ceramics using indirect measurements for solid-state refrigeration. He also explored an unforeseen component of the electric field-driven caloric effect termed as inverse piezocaloric effect. Additionally, he performed work on the effect of compressive pre-stressed (mechanical confinement) for tuning ferroelectric/pyroelectric/-piezoelectric properties for energy storage/conversion and other device applications. The current research is focused on pyroelectric energy harvesting and the flexocaloric effect in ferroelectric materials. Read More Read Less