He worked as postdoctoral research fellow and visiting faculty in the department of Chemical & Material Engineering at University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada (1994 –1997).

He also worked on oil sands extraction technology at the University of Alberta and closely involved in various projects.

He served director of Council of Scientific Industrial Research - Institute of Minerals and Materials Technology (CSIR-IMMT) from 2018 (on lien from IIT Delhi) with professor, Faculty of Engineering Sciences, AcSIR and adjunct professor (since 2019) in the department of chemical engineering at Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai till 2023.

His broad research interests[3] are in the area of Interfacial and Electrochemical Engineering and their application in hydrogen energy and fuel cell technology.

His works on development of direct alcohol and glucose PEM and AEM Fuel Cells, PEMFC diagnostics, solid oxide fuel cells, as the source of renewable energy sources and removal ionic dyes from water by reverse micelles selectively, reuse of dye and solvent, CO2 conversion to chemical fuels and dye mineralization by photocatalysis, as environmentally benign technologies.