Uday Pal

Uday Pal, affiliated faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Boston University’s College of Engineering.

Research and Professional Experience
He has six years of industrial and thirty-two years of academic research experience in high-temperature chemical and electrochemical processes, including energy conversion, energy storage, and clean metals production. He has authored and co-authored over 300 publications, including 28 issued patents. His courses developed and taught include materials thermodynamics, process kinetics, fuel cells and batteries, transport phenomena, environmental engineering, and green manufacturing.

Honors and Awards (last 10 years)

• 2020 Elected Fellow of AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science)
  (For pioneering work providing novel materials-based solutions in the field of green engineering as applied to energy conversion and primary production of materials)
• 2015 AIME James Douglas Gold Medal
  (For pioneering work in the new field of green metallurgy and materials as applied to primary production and recycling of metals)
• 2015 TMS Extraction and Processing Division Distinguished Lecturer Award
  (For pioneering work in the new field of green technology for metals production)
• 2014 Richard E. Tressler Lecture and Award in Materials, Pennsylvania State University
  (For contributions to finding exciting materials-based solutions to critical environmental and energy issues)
• 2012 Distinguished Foreign Scientist Award, Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR), India
  (Under this scheme, eminent foreign scientists, nominated by established CSIR scientists, are invited to perform collaborative fuel cell-related work at CSIR labs)

Professional Services:

• Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Sustainable Metallurgy, Springer
• Member Editorial Board, Advances in Manufacturing, Springer

Pronouns: he/him