Power and Energy Engineering

Biography

Prof. Dr. Ramchandra Bhandari has been working as a professor for Renewable Energy Systems at ITT, TH Köln (University of Applied Sciences) in Cologne, Germany since March 2013. Since May 2014, he is serving as a vice director for Cologne Institute for Renewable Energy at the TH Köln. Dr. Bhandari, born in 1979 in Nepal, obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Tribhuvan University, Nepal in 2002 and he further received his Master’s degree in Renewable Energy Management from ITT, Germany. Dr. Bhandari wrote his dissertation at the University of Kassel in the field of renewable energy in 2010. Since then he worked at the Centre for Renewable Energy of the University of Freiburg and Institute for Energy and Climate Research of the Research Centre Jülich before he came to TH Köln in 2013. He already holds a decade long experiences in renewable energy sector and has published articles in peer-reviewed journals. He is also a reviewer in a few renowned journals such as Applied Energy, Progress in Photovoltaics, etc. He led the development of MOOC module in the field of energy and agriculture in cooperation with GIZ and USAID under the umbrella project Powering Agriculture (May 2015-Sept. 2016). Prof. Bhandari currently leads different research projects (e.g. Higher Education Cooperation Project with Pan African University– PAUWES, Water and Energy Security for Africa - WESA-ITT, Partnerships for Sustainable Solutions in Sub Sahara Africa - RARSUS from ITT, TH Köln side.

Research Interest

His research interests are sustainable renewable energy transition (technology, economics, policy), rural electrification and environmental life cycle assessment.