ESSENCE

The environmental sciences and sustainable engineering Centre (ESSENCE) at IIT Palakkad aims to provide an interdisciplinary platform to find ways to sustainably meet the needs of the present without compromising future generation’s ability to meet their own needs. We take inspiration from local community’s needs, sustainable development goals identified by the United Nations, and Paris Climate Agreement to focus our research efforts on ‘Enabling Responsible Development through Research in Environmental Science and Sustainable Engineering’.

Thrust Areas

Climate Action
Environmental and Human Health
Translating Research and Development into Policy
Resilient Societies

Faculty

Deepak Jaiswal
Sunitha K Nair
Mintu Porel
Dinesh Jagadeesan
Divya PV
Praveena Gangadharan
Veena Venudharan
Athira P
Arun Rahul
M. Sabarimalai Manikandan
Sarmistha Singh
R Venkataraghavan (adjunct)

Resources Available

Air quality monitoring station
Smart agriculture field research site (in preparation)
High performance computing resources
Various other central research facilities at IIT Palakkad

Programs

ESSENCE currently offers Ph.D./M.S.(by Research) programs focusing on the above-mentioned thrust areas. Faculty members at ESSENCE are working on various aspects within the current thrust areas.