Vivek Verma 🧑‍🎓 - Urban Mining Lab

## About Vivek Verma ![[SmallFileSizePhoto.jpg]] **Dr. Vivek Verma** Assistant Professor Department of Sustainable Energy Engineering Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur India, 208016 ✉️: [email protected] ☎️: 0512-259-2603 ## Education | Degree | Year | Place | | :---------------------------------------------------------------------------------: | :-------------: | :---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------: | | B.Tech/M.Tech (Dual Degree) in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering | 2012 - 2017 | Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras ![[IIT-Madras-logo-vector-01.svg\|200]] | | Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering | 2017 - 2021 | Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore ![[Picture1.jpg]] | ## Professional Experience | Position | Duration | Affliation | | :-----------------------------------------------------------: | :-------------: | :-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------: | | Post Doctoral Research Fellow ![[Picture1.jpg]] | 2022 - 2025 | Singapore-CEA Alliance for Circular Economy (SCARCE) Energy Research Institute Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore | | Assistant Professor ![[IIT_Kanpur_Logo.svg\|200]] | 2025 - | Department of Sustainable Energy Engineering Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur India, 208016 | ## Brief summary about my career **Vivek Verma** graduated from [Indian Institute of Technology Madras](https://www.iitm.ac.in/) , India in 2017 with a Integrated Bachelors-Masters dual degree in [Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, IIT Madras](https://mme.iitm.ac.in/). Thereafter, he finished his Ph.D. in [School of Materials Science and Engineering](https://www.ntu.edu.sg/mse) at [Nanyang Technological University - NTU Singapore](https://www.ntu.edu.sg/) with [Prof. Madhavi Srinivasan](https://web.mse.ntu.edu.sg/homepages/madhavi/index.html) in 2022. During his Ph.D., using X-ray diffraction and absorption spectroscopy techniques in collaborations with [Synchrotron Light Research Institute(SLRI), Thailand](https://www.slri.or.th/en_web/), he developed inorganic host materials and electrolyte formulations for rechargeable zinc-ion batteries as grid-scale energy storage applications. After finishing his Ph.D., Vivek joined [Singapore-CEA Alliance for Research in Circular Economy (SCARCE) | NTU Singapore](https://www.ntu.edu.sg/scarce) lab in NTU Singapore with a focus on recycling of spent Li-ion battery materials. Here, Vivek is using hydrometallurgy and bulk X-ray characterization methods to recover and recycle critical transition metals from spent Li-ion batteries. Starting in May 2025, Vivek Verma joined as an Assistant Professor at [Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur](https://www.iitk.ac.in/) in the department of [Sustainable Energy Engineering](https://www.iitk.ac.in/see/) where his teaching and research directions will focus on urban mining, e-waste recycling, and sustainable battery materials. ![[Affiliations]]