Career
Dr. Vikas Mahto, presently serving as Associate Professor, has joined Petroleum Engineering Department of Indian School of Mines Dhanbad in 2004 as Lecturer after completing his Ph.D. Degree in Petroleum Engineering from the same institute. Earlier, he has also worked as lecturer in the Department of Chemical Engineering of B.I.T. Sindri, Dhanbad. He has more than ninety publications in the different national/international journals & conferences of repute and authored one book. He has completed three research projects sponsored by UGC-ISM, UGC New Delhi and CSIR New Delhi. He has completed one Industrial Consultancy Project and presently working on Collaborative R&D project with Oil India Ltd, Assam, India. He is currently involved in the several works in the area of Drilling Fluid Design and Analysis, Application of nanoparticles and nanofluids in different oilfield operations, Water shut off jobs and Conformance Control, Flow Assurance Problems in the oilfields, EOR Techniques and Artificial Lift Techniques. He is the reviewer of many international journals and member of many editorial boards.