Prof. Dinesh Kabra is Forbes & Marshall chair professor of Energy Science and Engineering and Professor in department of Physics at IIT Bombay, Mumbai - India. DK is faculty in-charge for emerging PV technologies at National Centre for Photovoltaic Research and Education (NCPRE) at IITB and also associated faculty member for Centre for Semiconductors for innovations and technologies (SEMIX). Prior to joining the IIT Bombay, DK was an independent Herchel Smith Research Fellow at Cavendish Laboratory at University of Cambridge, UK. He did his PhD at JNCASR, Bengaluru-India.

DK is recipient of DST Solar Challenge Award 2022, Early Research Achiever Award 2015 and Best Paper Award 2016 of Industrial Research & Consultancy Centre, IIT Bombay. His research focus involves Energy Materials and devices, like; single junction & tandem Solar Cells, Transparent PV, In-door PV and optoelectronic devices. He is an expert in transferring the fundamental photo-physics and device physics of emerging photonic materials like halide perovskite and molecular semiconductors into the design of high-performance devices. His research group has published more than 100 peer reviewed reputed publications and more than 10 international and national patents, many of them licensed and tech-transferred to the industries in the domain of energy and optoelectronics.