Prof. Gopal Nath Tiwari (G.N.Tiwari) was born on July 01, 1951 at Adarsh Nager, Sagerpali, Ballia. Dr.
Tiwari has joined IIT Delhi in the year 1977 after completing his Ph.D. from Banaras Hindu University as
post doctoral fellow (PDF) and become Professor in the year 1997. He has worked in the area of solar
energy, solar thermal namely dryer, water/air heaters, building, environment and climate change etc.
and photo-voltaic thermal (PVT) since then. He has superannuated in June 2016. To his credit he has
published more than 700 research paper with h-index of 97. He has also supervised more than 100 Ph.D.
students. He has published more than twenty five books and 20 chapters for various editing books. His
work has been recognized by various agencies in terms of Hari Om Ashram Prerit S.S. Bhatnagar award
(ICMRI, Bhawnagar), Vigyan Ratna award (Govt. of UP), two time life achievement award (ISAM, USA),
European Fellow , Faculty Research award (Carrier-360) and nominated International IDEA award etc.
Dr. Tiwari is a founder member of SOLARIS based in UK and organized three international and many
national conferences at different venue. He has also successfully completed many research project
funded by many ministries, Government of India. He is Chief Editor, Editors and reviewers of many
international journals with high impact factor. At present he is actively looking (i) the ongoing project on
GiSPVT funded by DST at his home town Ballia (UP) at Margupur, Chilkhar Ballia and (ii) an international
joint project with King Saudi University (KSU), Saudu Arabia under banner of Bag Energy Research
Society (BERS) for which he is founder President. He is also involved to open a school for financially
week and good students at Margupur, Chilakahar Ballia (UP).
Recently, Dr. Tiwari has been world ranked at 449 with C-score of 3.76131963 for Sriramswoop
Memorial University (SRMU), Dew-Road, Lucknow and at 1603 with C-score of 3.34672147 for IIT Delhi
among top 2% world scientists from India by Stanford University, UK. The total C-score if both added
will be 7.1080411 which will improve world ranking significantly.
At present he is actively looking (i) the ongoing project on GiSPVT funded by DST at his home town Ballia
(UP) at Margupur, Chilkhar Ballia and (ii) an international joint project with King Saudi University (KSU),
Saudu Arabia under banner of Bag Energy Research Society (BERS) for which he is founder President.
Dr. Tiwari has been world ranked at 449 with C-score of 3.76131963 for Sriramswoop Memorial
University (SRMU), Dew-Road, Lucknow and at 1603 with C-score of 3.34672147 for IIT Delhi among top
2% world scientists from India by Stanford University, UK
Recently, he has also been appointed senior editor of Electrical Engineering, Electronic and Energy,
Elsevier for a period of three years. Further, he has also been ranked sixth position as researcher in
Engineering and Science in India and 305 th ranked internationally.
