Gautam Kalghatgi worked for 31 years at Shell Research in the U.K. followed by 8 years in Saudi Aramco before retiring in June 2018. He has been a Visiting Professor at Oxford University; Imperial College, London; KTH Stockholm; TU Eindhoven, Shanghai Jiao Tong university and Sheffield University. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, SAE, I.Mech.E., the Combustion Institute and an Honorary Fellow of the International Society for Energy Environment and Sustainability (ISEES).

Gautam Kalghatgi worked for 31 years at Shell Research in the U.K. followed by 8 years in Saudi Aramco before retiring in June 2018. He has been a Visiting Professor at Oxford University; Imperial College, London; KTH Stockholm; TU Eindhoven, Shanghai Jiao Tong university and Sheffield University. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, SAE, I.Mech.E., the Combustion Institute and an Honorary Fellow of the International Society for Energy Environment and Sustainability (ISEES). He has published around 140 papers and a book, “Fuel/Engine Interactions”, on combustion, fuels, engine research and energy. He has also edited two other books on engine research. This work is cited widely with a current H index of 62 on Google Scholar. He has been on the editorial boards of many technical journals and has been active on many industry and academic bodies. He has received many awards for his work including the 2021 ASME Internal Combustion Engines award, Huw Edwards award of the Institute of Physics, SAE Horning Award, and the Sugden award of the Combustion Institute. He has a B.Tech. from I.I.T. Bombay (1972) and a Ph.D. from Bristol University (1975) in Aeronautical Engineering.  His PhD project was on supersonic jet impingement. He did post-doctoral research on turbulent combustion at Southampton University (1975-1979) before joining Shell.