Dr. Vijaya Chandrakala K. R. M., Assistant Professor at the department of Electrical and Electronics, Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore campus was recently honored with a certificate of appreciation from the editorial team of Energy Conversion and Management, in recognition for her outstanding contributions to the quality of the journal. 

Energy Conversion and Management is an open access international journal of Elsevier, which provides a forum for publishing original contributions and comprehensive technical review articles of interdisciplinary and original research on all important energy topics which include energy generation, utilization, conversion, storage, transmission, conservation, management and sustainability. The journal is indexed in Science Citation Index (SCI) and Scopus listed Journal having an Impact Factor of 4.380. 

The Certificate of Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing is awarded by the Elsevier team to recognize and support our reviewer community using a range of criteria such as speed, quality and frequency of review, dedication and professionalism.  

“I am honored to receive an award from Elsevier. This award will encourage me to progress and excel in the field of power systems’ she noted.

Dr. Vijaya’s activities in Power System Control, FACTS Devices, Soft Computing Techniques to Micro and Smart Grid, are acknowledged by this reward.  The award included a certificate and a badge.

Apart from Elsevier, she is a Technical Reviewer of Electrical Power Components and Systems, Taylor and Francis and International Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing Journals. She is also a project group member in DST- VINNOVA Smart Grid project with KTH, Sweden.