Dr Harjit Singh
President IVIS Advisory Board
Dr Singh is Senior Lecturer in Energy Engineering and Built Environment at Brunel University London (UK) where he has been an academic since 2011. His research focusses onto vacuum insulation panels and building/industrial/horticultural retrofit/new-build for improved energy efficiency with over >£25 million research funding as PI or Co-I and >70 peer reviewed publications in the area. He has secured research funding from the UKRI (EPSRC), Newton Fund (UK-Egypt, UK-India), Innovate UK (Kenya, Tanzania, Nigeria, Uganda), UKIERI-DST (UK-India), EU’s Horizon2020 and several industrial funders based in USA, Germany and the UK. He was consultant to a project for developing Vaccine Storage Devices funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He was the Chair of the International Vacuum Insulation Symposium (IVIS2021; IVIS 2021 – International Vacuum Insulation Symposium) and is the current President of the IVIS Advisory Board. Further information about his research and academic activities can be had from: https://www.brunel.ac.uk/people/harjit-singh