Education

• Doctor of Philosophy (Chermical Engineering), Indian Institute of Technology Bombay and National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India (2009)
• B.Tech (Chemical Engineering), University of Calcutta, India (1998)
• B.Sc. (Hons.) (Chemistry), Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Centenary College, University of Calcutta., India. (1995)

Other professional qualification:

•     Diploma in Management, IGNOU, 2002

Research Interest

• Complex Fluids
• Phase transition in polymeric system
• Self assembly in block copolymer
• Structure Property relation
• Biophysics (Computational Biology)
• Disaggregation of Alzheimer's Amyloid-ß fibril
• Graphene based nano materials
• Solar cells
• Conductive Hydrogels for sensing and Energy Harvesting

 

Facilities

Lab facilities:

• Temperature Modulated Differential Calorimetry (TMDSC)
• Optical Microscope
• Thermal Stage
• Lyophilizer
• Keithley Source Meter
• Vacuum Oven
• Hot Air Oven
• Sonicator
• Fume Hood
• Chemical Storage Unit
• Centrifuge
• Refrigerator

 

Department Central Facilities: Analytical Laboratory

 

Institute Central Facilities: Central Instruments Facilitie.

Experience

Professor: Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Guwahati, September, 2019 - Present.
Associate Professor: Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Guwahati, July, 2015 – September, 2019.
Assistant Professor: Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Guwahati, July, 2009 - July, 2015.
Senior Lecturer: Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Guwahati, March, 2009 - July, 2009.
Senior Process Engineer: Oswal Chemicals and Fertilizers' Limited, Paradeep, Orissa,1999-2003.

Industrial experience:

Company: Department/Section: Position: Duration:	Oswal Chemicals and Fertilizers' Limited, Paradeep, Orissa. Production Senior Process Engineer January, 1999 - July, 2003
Description:	Project implementation, Pre-commissioning, Commissioning, Production, Maintenance, Quality Control

Professional Association:

• Life associate member of Indian Institute Chemical Engineers (IIChE).
• Life member of Society of Polymer Science India (SPS).
•  Member of the American Physical Society (APS), USA.

 

Courses Taught

•  Fluid Mechanics (UG)
• Thermodynamics (UG)
•  Process Equipment Design-II (UG)
• Thermodynamics (PG)
• Molecular Simulations: Principles and Applications (UG + PG)
• Mass Transfer Operations – II (UG)
• Chemical Reaction Engineering - II (UG)
• Laboratory courses (UG) – Mass Transfer Operations, Chemical Reaction Engineering