Prior to that, he was a Mitacs - Elevate Post Doctoral Fellow with an industrial postdoctoral fellowship program. He is also a recipient of Humboldt Research Fellowship award. Dr. Waghmare received his undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Pune, India, and his Master’s in Thermal and Fluids Engineering with High Honors (Gold Medal). His doctoral degree was in the field of capillarity and wetting. In 2018, Dr. Waghmare has successfully established a Surface Science Hub for Clean Technology at the University of Alberta and his core area of research is droplet dynamics and interfacial fluid dynamics.