“I am very pleased that I am receiving the Global Energy prize and it is a great honour to be selected for this award, from the 119 nominations received from 43 countries. It is the highest award in the area of Energy. I hope this award will encourage other engineers to work in the area of Energy and reduce our dependence on fossil fuels for all applications,” Rajashekara said.
His key area of research is transport electrification: he contributed significantly to the topology of energy conversion for electric and hybrid vehicles by way of combining various energy sources (fuel cells, ultra-capacitors, rechargeable batteries), and developed the power converters and the driving algorithms for e-vehicles and hybrid heavy trucks. Dr. Rajashekara published over 250 articles in international journals and conferences proceedings; he also holds over 50 patents issued in the USA and other countries.
Viktor Orlov became the 2022 Global Energy Prize laureate together with Kaushik Rajashekara. Prof. Orlov is a nuclear physicist from Russia, and he won the Global Energy Prize in the Conventional Energy nomination. He also received his award personally, but earlier, during the ceremony at the Russian Energy Week in Moscow. Mercouri Kanatzidis, a researcher of Greek origin from the US was elected the laureate in the Non-Conventional Energy nomination.
