Job Posting: SRMIST Center of Excellence in CFD and Electronic Cooling Lab 
invites applications for the post of Assistant Professor in Thermal Engineering 
with Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) or Electronic Cooling or 
Microelectronics specialization/experience. Entry Level. Candidates who have 
submitted their Ph. D dissertation and waiting defense are also welcome to 
apply.  Final Selection will be based on their successful completion of their 
defense.  Candidates with experience are also welcome to apply.

Minimum Qualifications: Ph D in Thermal or Mechanical or Aerospace or Chemical 
or Nuclear or Electronics or Electrical Engineering Degree with CFD or Power 
Electronics specialization and/or significant exposure to Microelectronics and 
CFD tools pertinent to Electronic Cooling and Heat Transfer. Exposure to Ansys 
Icepak at the basic level with good understanding of meshing principles.

General Requirement: Experience Level is aimed at fresh graduates with academic 
exposure/experience in heat transfer, CFD and thermal management of electronics. 
But candidates with experience are also welcome to apply. Potential candidate is 
expected to work in a team and hence requires organization skills and people’s 
skills to work in a dynamic environment. Candidate should be willing to 
supervise lab projects for students who work on industry related Capstone 
project taught by industry expert from California.

Basic knowledge of commercial tools such as Icepak, Flotherm, Fluent, Ansys 
Workbench. Experience in Thermal-Electric simulation using ANSYS Maxwell is a 
plus. Strong understanding of first principles physics related to thermal 
performance of components in data centers. Fundamental understanding of air 
cooling, liquid cooling, immersion cooling and advanced heat removal methods and 
techniques related to component level, system level and data center cooling.
Willingness/ability to travel 10% both domestically and internationally. Process 
focused with good communication skills. 

This position will directly report to the Head of the Center of CFD and 
Electronic Cooling Prof. Dr. B. K. Gnanavel. The candidate should also be 
willing to take instructions and directions from International Advisor/Lab 
Founder and Visiting Professor who teaches the Capstone program. 

Application: Interested candidates must send an electronic copy of their resume 
to SRMIST HR copying The Center Head Prof. Dr. Gnanavel B K 
(gnanaveb@srmist.edu.in) with all the publications, patents, achievements along 
with 2 letters of recommendations. Letters of recommendations are preferred and 
is not imperative for the application but will be required if the candidate is 
selected.