Shiv Shankar

Research affiliations

07/2024- present:  Doctoral Researcher at Max Planck Institute for Sustainable Materials

01/2024-06/2024: Master thesis at Max Planck Institute for Sustainable Materials

10/2023-12/2023: Internship at Max Planck Institute for Sustainable Materials

06/2022-09/2023: Student Research Assistant, Chair of Materials Chemistry (MCh), RWTH Aachen University

04/2022-06/2022: Student Research Assistant, Institut für Metallkunde und Materialphysik (IMM), RWTH Aachen University

Education

07/2024-present: Doctoral Researcher at Max Planck Institute for Sustainable Materials, Düsseldorf, Germany

10/2021-06/2024: Master's in Metallurgical Engineering at RWTH Aachen University, Germany

08/2017-06/2021: B.Tech (Hons.) Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, National Institute of Technology (NIT), Jamshedpur, India

Awards

Otto Junker Award 2025 for outstanding master's thesis at RWTH Aachen University, Germany

Best poster award by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Materialkunde e.V. (DGM) during MSE Congress 2024

Institute Silver medal 2021 for the highest grade in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering department, NIT Jamshedpur, India

Publication highlights

Unraveling the thermodynamics and mechanism behind the lowering of direct reduction temperatures in oxide mixtures

Hydrogen-based direct reduction of multicomponent oxides: Insights from powder and pre-sintered precursors toward sustainable alloy design

Mechanistic insights into hydrogen reduction of multicomponent oxides via in-situ high-energy X-ray diffraction

Elucidating the microstructure evolution during hydrogen-based direct reduction via a case study of single crystal hematite

Sustainable Pre-reduction of Ferromanganese Oxides with Hydrogen: Heating Rate-Dependent Reduction Pathways and Microstructure Evolution