Prof. Nilanjan Chakraborty joined the School of Engineering of Newcastle University in July 2011. Previously, he was a senior lecturer at the School of Engineering at the University of Liverpool. He joined the University of Liverpool as a lecturer in 2005 and was promoted to a senior lectureship in 2008. He graduated in Mechanical Engineering in 1999 from Jadavpur University, Calcutta with First Class Honours in a Bachelor's of Mechanical Engineering. In the same year, he obtained an All India First Rank in the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering Examination (GATE). He completed his Master's degree (ME) in Mechanical Engineering with a specialisation in Computational Heat and Fluid Flow from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc.), Bangalore, with a University First Rank (Gold medal with senate commendation). He gained industrial experience as a Mechanical Engineer in General Electric (GE), India before receiving the prestigious Gates Cambridge Scholarship for pursuing a PhD at Cambridge University. His res