The Center for Sustainable Technologies (CST) built up as Center for ASTRA (Application of Science and Technology for Rural Areas) in 1974, is IISc's between disciplinary exploration and innovation advancement community for giving practical answers for host of worldwide concerns, essentially managing vitality, structures and environment. The Center's attention is on elevating Sustainable Technologies custom fitted to suit nearby states of asset accessibility and home.

Effective case of CST's different mediations are, Energy Efficient Wood Burning Devices, Biomethanation, Biomass Gasification, Alternative Building Technologies, Green Buildings and BiPV, Water Purification and Defluoridation, Sanitation, Sustainable Biomass for Energy, Forestry, Bioenergy and Climate Change, and Environmental Quality Assurance-Impact Studies.

CST is visualizing to create innovations for carbon sequestering, nano-innovation based water treatment gadgets, bio-powers, nitrogen-recuperation from debased surface and groundwater assets, biomass refineries for gas (maker gas, hydrogen, and so on), fluid energizes and side effects, vitality era from waste, low-carbon structures and environmental change alleviation. Pushed is likewise being coordinated towards arrangement concentrates on vitality, environment, and manageable improvement and in creating far reaching outline rules for locale particular green structures and materials.

Chairman
Venkatarama Reddy B V PhD (IISc)
Professor

Faculty

Chanakya H N PhD (UAS)
Chief Research Scientist (Biogas)

Dasappa S PhD (IISc)
Associate Professor (Gasifiers)

Lakshminarayana Rao PhD (McGill University)
Assistant Professor
(Plasma Technology, Waste to Energy)

Monto Mani PhD (IIT/M)
Associate Professor
(Sustainable Architecture/Habitats, Design)

Punit Singh PhD (Karlsruhe Inst. of Tech.)
Assistant Professor
(Turbo-machinery, Renewable Energy)

Ravindranath N H PhD (IIT/B)
Professor (Forestry & Other subjects)

Somashekar H I M Sc Ag (UAS)
Technical Officer Gr. III (Gasifiers,Stoves,Driers)

Venkata Krishnappa D M Sc (BU)
Scientific Assistant

Associate Faculty

Balachandra P PhD
Principal Research Scientist (Energy & Policy Studies)

Jayant Modak M PhD (Purdue University)
Professor (Bioleaching and Biochemcial reactors)

Nanjunda Rao K S PhD (IISc)
Principal Research Scientist
(Composites and Masonry structures)

Ramachandra T V Ph.D (IISc)
Senior Scientific Officer

Sivakumar babu G L PhD (IISc)
Professor (Solid Waste Management)

Sudhakar Rao M Ph.D. (Poona University)
Professor (Water Quality & Waste Management)

Venkatarama Reddy B V PhD (IISc)
Professor
(Alternative building technology, Housing)

Administration
Geethanjali T

Address:

Center for Sustainable Technologies,
Indian Institute of Science
Bangalore - 560012,
Karnataka, INDIA.
Tel : +91 (80) 2293 2447, 2293 2762, 2293 3015
Fax : +91 (80) 2360 0683, 2360 0085
Email : chairman@astra.iisc.ernet.in