Ravishankar Sathyamurthy is associated with the Mechanical Engineering Department, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia. He holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Energy Engineering from the Hindustan Institute of Technology and Science. His research interests include material science, refrigeration and air conditioning, solar drying, solar still desalination, IC engines, nanofluids in heat transfer applications, material characterization, computational fluid dynamics, phase change materials, energy storage, alternate fuels, and heat and power engineering. He has authored and co-authored more than 290 international articles and presented 50 papers at international conferences. He is presently an Associate Editor at the Frontiers in Energy Research (Solar Energy section) and Energy Engineering Journal. Since 2018, he has also been a visiting researcher at the Faculty of Engineering, Tanta University, Egypt.