Hamburg Institute for Advanced Study
Germany
fellow
Sanchari Deb
2025-2026
Home institution
Newcastle University
Country of origin (home institution)
United Kingdom
Discipline(s)
Engineering
Theme(s)
Digital Society; Energy & Renewable Resources
Fellowship dates
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Biography
Sanchari Deb completed her PhD from the Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati on ‘Charging Infrastructure Planning for Electric Vehicles’ in the year 2020. Post PhD, she joined the Alliance for Energy Efficient Economy, New Delhi as consultant and worked on vehicle grid integration in the Indian context. In 2020, she received a fellowship from the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM) and joined the “Smart eFleet group” of the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland as research scientist.
In 2021, she received the MSCA COFUND EUTOPIA COFUND SIF fellowship and joined the “Power and Control Systems Research Laboratory” of the University of Warwick. In 2022, she received a Newcastle University Academic Track (NuAcT) fellowship under the “Cities and Place” theme and joined Newcastle University as academic track fellow. As part of the NuAcT fellowship, her research focuses on accessible smart sustainable charging infrastructure to promote transportation electrification in cities.
She is also involved in a lot of equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) initiatives at Newcastle University and has been awarded the EDI in Energy fellowship in 2023.
Research Project
Accessible Sustainable and Smart Charging Infrastructure for Electric Vehicles
Sanchari Deb’s HIAS project aims to develop electric vehicle charging infrastructure that is accessible, sustainable, and smart. The rising concerns over global warming, climate change, energy crisis, and pollution have called for the electrification of the transport sector. It is predicted that the oil consumption of the transport sector will rise by 54% until 2035.
As a measure to decrease the greenhouse gas contributions of the transport sector, the twenty-first century has witnessed the replacement of conventional internal combustion engine driven vehicles with electric vehicles. However, there are still some unsolved challenges associated with EVs that are worth investigating. One of them is the availability of smart and sustainable charging infrastructure for EVs. Unavailability of easily accessible charging infrastructure is one of the challenges hindering mass deployment of EVs. Cities or urban areas will be the early adopters of EVs and so establishing accessible, smart and sustainable charging infrastructure in the cities is foremost important.
Research Interests:
e-mobility; charging infrastructure ; artificial intelligence ; microgrid planning; local energy systems with cogeneration; vehicle grid integration; metaheuristics algorithms; machine learning applications; power system reliability; intelligent transport; autonomous vehicles; quantum computing applications; solar-based charging infrastructure for electric vehicles (EVs); climate change; circular economy