Home Honours for TRIL Fellow

Shyam S. Nandwani, a participant of ICTP's Training and Research in Italian Laboratories (TRIL) programme and a former ICTP Associate, has been honoured by his home institute, Universidad Nacional, Heredia, Costa Rica, for his work in promoting his field of research, solar energy.

Nandwani has been very active in promoting and disseminating different and practical techniques for the use of solar energy, in particular in developing countries. He is coordinator of the Solar Energy Laboratory in the Universidad Nacional's Department of Physics.

Nandwani has attended numerous ICTP conferences and workshops, in addition to his current affiliation with TRIL, through which he has performed research at Department of Mechanics and Aeronautics at Sapienza University of Rome and at the Interuniversity Research Centre on Sustainable Development.

"I am thankful to ICTP for providing me the opportunities to visit Trieste, where I could concentrate to analyse my experimental data, consult the latest literature, write parts of research papers and think of better ways to promote the uses of solar energy for different sectors, including educational, rural communities and the general public," said Nandwani.