Sanchari Deb completed her PhD from Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati on ‘Charging Infrastructure Planning for Electric Vehicles’ in the year 2020.
Her research interests broadly covers different aspects of power and energy such as e mobility, charging infrastructure planning, Artificial intelligence applications power and energy, microgrid planning, local energy systems with cogeneration, Vehicle Grid integration, optimization, metaheuristics algorithms, tool development for charging station placement, machine learning applications, power system reliability, intelligent transport, autonomous vehicle, quantum computing applications, solar based charging infrastructure for Electric Vehicles (EVs), climate, change, circular economy. Post PhD she joined Alliance for Energy Efficient Economy, New Delhi as Consultant and worked on Vehicle Grid Integration in Indian context.
In 2020 she received ERCIM fellowship and joined the Smart e Fleet group of VTT Technical Research Centre, Finland as research scientist. In 2021 she received MSCA COFUND EUTOPIA COFUND SIF fellowship and joined Power and Control group of University of Warwick. In 2022, she received NuAcT fellowship under the Cities and Place theme and joined Newcastle University as Academic Track Fellow. As a part of NuAcT fellowship her research focuses on ‘Accessible Smart Sustainable Charging Infrastructure to promote transportation electrification in cities’.
She is also involved in a lot of EDI initiatives at Newcastle University and has been awarded EDI in Energy fellowship in 2023.
She is part of the Grid Connections for a Net-Zero Future: a collaborative workshop with AEMO on overcoming challenges and unlocking flexibility project, funded through EDRC Flexible fund.