Prof. Chandrashekhar Sharma
Dean of R&D, IIT Hyderabad
Prof. Chandrashekhar Sharma, a PhD from IIT Kanpur is the Dean of Research at IIT Hyderabad. His expertise and current research are focused on Polymer and Carbon Nanomaterials, Carbon-MEMS, Metal-CO2 based battery applications, Electrospun Nanofibers,and Drug Delivery applications. His research articles are published in various international peer reviewed journals and he has several patents in the field of nanotechnology. His proactive role, quick decision-making, and a clear roadmap for his research facilitated the way for him to establish excellent state-of-the-art research facilities at IIT Hyderabad very early on in his career as an independent academician. Prof. Chandra was awarded the most prestigious DST Swarnajayanti Fellowship and also got selected for 75 under 50 scientists shaping today’s India, published by Vigyan Prasar, Govt. of India as a part of Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav.
Prof. Dipankar Bandyopadhyay
Professor in Department of Chemical Engineering,IIT Guwahati
Dr. Dipankar Bandyopadhyay is a B.Sc in Chemistry and B.Tech in Chemical Engineering from Calcutta University. After completion of M.Tech from the Department of Chemical Engineering at IIT Kanpur, he served ANSYS - Fluent India Private Limited for more than 3 years as a CFD Engineer before completing PhD from IIT Kanpur. Presently, he is a Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and served as Head at the Centre for Nanotechnology & School of Health Sciences and Technology at IIT Guwahati. He has also served as visiting faculty at Yeungnam Univerisity at South Korea under the WCU Program, and KTH Sweden under the Erasmus Mundus program.
His research areas encompass Thin film Dynamics, Soft-matter Physics, Liquid Crystals and Smart Materials, Droplet and Digital Microfluidics, Health Care Point-of-Cater-Testing Devices, MEMS Theranostics, Microrheology, Clean energy, Harvesting, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Stability and Instability of Fluidic systems, Complex Fluids, Microrheology, among others.
He has authored ~130 research publications in the international journals and has filed 21 Indian and 9 international patents so fa. He is the recipient of NCL’s Prof. K Venkataraman CHEMCON Award in CHEMCON 2016. He is a nominated member of American Chemical Society, Royal Society of Chemistry, and Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers.
Prof. Dipankar Bandyopadhyay
Professor in Department of Chemical Engineering,IIT Guwahati
Dr. Abhijit Majumder
Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Bombay
Abhijit Majumder is an Associate Professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB). He received his PhD from the Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Kanpur in 2010. His doctoral research was on microfluidic assisted adhesion and soft mechanics. In 2010, he moved to NCBS Bangalore and then in 2012 to Harvard Medical School Boston for his Post-Doctoral research on cell mechanics and microfluidic devices respectively. Abhijit joined Department of Chemical Engineering, IITB in 2014 as assistant professor. His present research interest includes stem cell, cell mechanics and microfluidics. Abhijit has published multiple papers in peer-reviewed journals including Science, Langmuir, Acta Biomaterialia, and Soft Matters. He received DBT-Wellcome Trust early career fellowship and won TR35 India award. He is a member of Global Young Academy in which he was executive committee member in 2021-22.
Dr. Akhilesh Kumar Sahu
Assistant Professor in Chemical Engineering, NIT Rourkela
Dr. Akhilesh Kumar Sahu is an Assistant Professor in Chemical Engineering. He has done his graduation in Chemical Engineering (BE) from Pt. Ravi Shankar Shukla University Raipur in 2002. He received his MTech and PhD degree in Chemical Engineering from IIT Kanpur in 2005 and 2010 respectively. After finishing PhD, he joined Crompton Greaves R&D center, Mumbai for a short period as Senior Executive Engineer-Technology. He Later joined Chemical Engineering and Material Sciences department at University of Minnesota, Minneapolis for his post-doctoral research work. In 2013, he joined BIT Mesra before moving to NIT Rourkela as Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering. He is a recipient of Early Career Research award from SERB-DST (2016).
Dr. Akhilesh Kumar Sahu
Assistant Professor in Chemical Engineering, NIT Rourkela
Dr. Gaurav Sharma
Associate Professor in Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Roorkee
Dr. Gaurav Sharma is currently working as Associate Professor in Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Roorkee. He obtained his B.Tech from Aligarh Muslim University in 2002, M.Tech from IT, BHU Varanasi in 2004, and Ph.D. from IIT Kanpur in 2010. After spending about 5 months at JNCASR, Bangalore as a Research Associate, he joined IIT Roorkee in 2011. His areas of interests are interfacial phenomena, hydrodynamic stability, microfluidics, fluid-structure interactions. His research work is published in peer-reviewed international journals like Journal of fluid mechanics, Chemical Engineering Science, Physical Rev E, Physics of Fluids etc.
Dr. Ankur Verma
Assistant Professor in Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Hyderabad
Ankur Verma is Assistant Professor in the department of Chemical Engineering at IIT(BHU), Varanasi. He has done his postdoctoral research in the department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore USA. He did his PhD in 2011 from IIT Kanpur in the department of Chemical Engineering. He has received Malhotra Weikfield Foundation Nanoscience Fellowship, Shah-Schulman Award for the best PhD Thesis in the area of Colloid and Interface Sciences (2011) and DST-INSA Inspire Faculty Fellowship in Engineering and Technology (2011). He has published 20 articles in peer reviewed journals and has 2 U.S. patents.
Dr. Ankur Verma
Assistant Professor in Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Hyderabad
Prof. Joydeep Dutta
Professor of functional materials, KTH Royal Institute of Technology,Sweden
Joydeep Dutta is professor of functional materials at KTH with research focus in the application of nanomaterials for energy and environmental mitigation. A career spanning a little over 30 years, in Japan, France, Switzerland, Thailand and Oman he is in Sweden since 2015. He is an award winning author (American Library Association) has written 3 text books, several book chapters, 260+ original research publications that has received 15,000+ citations. He has spun off several startups and is currently in the board of Stockholmwater Technology, Notun, Straightcoat and Caplyzer, all of them in Sweden.
Prof. Prashant Sonar
Professor in School of Chemistry and Physics and Centre for Material Science, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Prof. Prashant Sonar is ARC Future Fellow and Professor in School of Chemistry and Physics and Centre for Material Science at Queensland University of Technology, (QUT), Australia. He was Visiting Professor at Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur in 2017. He holds adjunct position with Griffith University, Australia and Adjunct Research Fellow position at Organic Electronic Research Centre, Ming Chi University of Technology, New Taipei City, Taiwan. Currently, he is serving as an Associate Editor of the journal Flexible and Printed Electronics, Material Research Express (Institute of Physics, London), Frontier in Chemistry and Energies (MDPI, Switzerland). Recently, he has been elected as Fellow of Royal Chemical Society (FRSC) and Foreign Fellow of Maharashtra Academy of Sciences (FFMAS). He is a recipient of the Award for Excellence-Impact and Translation (2020), Centre for Materials Science, QUT, Australia and IAAM Scientist Award from International Association of Advanced Materials, Sweden (2020) respectively. He also received Thiemann Exchange Program Award to visit Technion-Israel Institute of Technology (2017), Israel and Foreign Collaborator Award from Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas, MEXT, (2016) Japan [19]. He was awarded Vice-Chancellors Performance Award from QUT Australia (2016) and received Long Service Award from IMRE, A*STAR Singapore (2012).
He has published 215 peer-reviewed research papers (H-index-48 according to Google Scholar) and filed 3 US patents.
Prof. Prashant Sonar
Professor in School of Chemistry and Physics and Centre for Material Science, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Dr. Wael Mamdouh
Professor,The American University in Cairo, Egypt
Wael Mamdouh is the leader of the largest dynamic research groups at AUC; “Biomedical Polymer Nanocomposites, Hydrogels and Tissue Engineering”. He is also the founder of a recent Spinoff startup Company (NANOFiB-TECH) specialized in producing a variety of Eco-friendly nanotechnology-based solutions for healthcare sector such as disinfectant, wound care, cosmetics, supplements, additives, etc.
Mamdouh received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Chemistry from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium in 2002 and 2005, and B.Sc. in Science: Chemistry from Ain Shams University, Egypt in 1997. His International publications and U.S. patents received more than 4600 citations worldwide. His research is focused on designing novel polymer nanocomposites, electrospun nanofibers, nanoparticles, Drug delivery nanocarriers, antibacterial nanocoatings and nanoscaffolds for wound dressings and tissue/bone/cartilage regeneration, cosmetics, Nanoporous membranes for biomedical and packaging applications
Prof. Prashant Sonar
Professor in School of Chemistry and Physics and Centre for Material Science, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
‘98.03: Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, Braunschweig, Germany ( Nano / MEMS major) ‘06.04~84.01: Senior Researcher at LG Institute of Technology ’06.03~‘15.03:Director, Miryang Nano Center, Korea Electric Research Institute(KERI) 2010 Received the Excellence Award in the Research Division of the KERI 2012 Korea Technology Transfer Excellence Researcher Award Developed the world's first magnetic levitation cylindrical large-area nano-exposure equipment ‘15.03.19: Established Ninano Co., Ltd. CEO Development of antimicrobial filter by using nano coating technology Development transparent electromagnetic wave blocking material for 5G- compatible large-area display.
Dr. HyeonSeok Oh
Smart Sensor, NanoPatterning, Anti-microbial coatin
Dr. Mudrika
Associate Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgical Engineering, IIT Hyderabad
Dr Mudrika Khandelwal is currently an associate professor in the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgical Engineering at IIT Hyderabad. Mudrika has been working to develop scientific solutions for societal problems (many of which are part of the SDGs, declared by the UN and priorities of the Indian Government) including antimicrobial materials for food packaging and controlling infectious diseases, materials for energy storage, and environmental remediation, using sustainable nanofibrous cellulosic materials. Earlier she has done her bachelors and masters of technology from IIT Bombay and Doctorate at University of Cambridge, UK. Her work has received the Gandhian Young Technological Innovation award in 2016. She is also the nominated and elected fellow to Indian National Young academy of Sciences and member to National Academy of Sciences, India. Recently, she has received the prestigious Young Engineer Award from Indian National Academy of Engineers and the National Academy of Sciences India Platinum Jubilee Young Scientist Award. She has also received women excellence award from SERB.
Prof. Chandrashekhar Sharma
Dean of R&D, IIT Hyderabad
Prof. Chandrashekhar Sharma, a PhD from IIT Kanpur is the Dean of Research at IIT Hyderabad. His expertise and current research are focused on Polymer and Carbon Nanomaterials, Carbon-MEMS, Metal-CO2 based battery applications, Electrospun Nanofibers,and Drug Delivery applications. His research articles are published in various international peer reviewed journals and he has several patents in the field of nanotechnology. His proactive role, quick decision-making, and a clear roadmap for his research facilitated the way for him to establish excellent state-of-the-art research facilities at IIT Hyderabad very early on in his career as an independent academician. Prof. Chandra was awarded the most prestigious DST Swarnajayanti Fellowship and also got selected for 75 under 50 scientists shaping today’s India, published by Vigyan Prasar, Govt. of India as a part of Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav.
Prof. Dipankar Bandyopadhyay
Professor in Department of Chemical Engineering,IIT Guwahati
Dr. Dipankar Bandyopadhyay is a B.Sc in Chemistry and B.Tech in Chemical Engineering from Calcutta University. After completion of M.Tech from the Department of Chemical Engineering at IIT Kanpur, he served ANSYS - Fluent India Private Limited for more than 3 years as a CFD Engineer before completing PhD from IIT Kanpur. Presently, he is a Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and served as Head at the Centre for Nanotechnology & School of Health Sciences and Technology at IIT Guwahati. He has also served as visiting faculty at Yeungnam Univerisity at South Korea under the WCU Program, and KTH Sweden under the Erasmus Mundus program.
His research areas encompass Thin film Dynamics, Soft-matter Physics, Liquid Crystals and Smart Materials, Droplet and Digital Microfluidics, Health Care Point-of-Cater-Testing Devices, MEMS Theranostics, Microrheology, Clean energy, Harvesting, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Stability and Instability of Fluidic systems, Complex Fluids, Microrheology, among others.
He has authored ~130 research publications in the international journals and has filed 21 Indian and 9 international patents so fa. He is the recipient of NCL’s Prof. K Venkataraman CHEMCON Award in CHEMCON 2016. He is a nominated member of American Chemical Society, Royal Society of Chemistry, and Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers.
Dr. Abhijit Majumder
Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Bombay
Abhijit Majumder is an Associate Professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB). He received his PhD from the Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Kanpur in 2010. His doctoral research was on microfluidic assisted adhesion and soft mechanics. In 2010, he moved to NCBS Bangalore and then in 2012 to Harvard Medical School Boston for his Post-Doctoral research on cell mechanics and microfluidic devices respectively. Abhijit joined Department of Chemical Engineering, IITB in 2014 as assistant professor. His present research interest includes stem cell, cell mechanics and microfluidics. Abhijit has published multiple papers in peer-reviewed journals including Science, Langmuir, Acta Biomaterialia, and Soft Matters. He received DBT-Wellcome Trust early career fellowship and won TR35 India award. He is a member of Global Young Academy in which he was executive committee member in 2021-22.
Dr. Akhilesh Kumar Sahu
Assistant Professor in Chemical Engineering, NIT Rourkela
Dr. Akhilesh Kumar Sahu is an Assistant Professor in Chemical Engineering. He has done his graduation in Chemical Engineering (BE) from Pt. Ravi Shankar Shukla University Raipur in 2002. He received his MTech and PhD degree in Chemical Engineering from IIT Kanpur in 2005 and 2010 respectively. After finishing PhD, he joined Crompton Greaves R&D center, Mumbai for a short period as Senior Executive Engineer-Technology. He Later joined Chemical Engineering and Material Sciences department at University of Minnesota, Minneapolis for his post-doctoral research work. In 2013, he joined BIT Mesra before moving to NIT Rourkela as Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering. He is a recipient of Early Career Research award from SERB-DST (2016).
Dr. Gaurav Sharma
Associate Professor in Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Roorkee
Dr. Gaurav Sharma is currently working as Associate Professor in Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Roorkee. He obtained his B.Tech from Aligarh Muslim University in 2002, M.Tech from IT, BHU Varanasi in 2004, and Ph.D. from IIT Kanpur in 2010. After spending about 5 months at JNCASR, Bangalore as a Research Associate, he joined IIT Roorkee in 2011. His areas of interests are interfacial phenomena, hydrodynamic stability, microfluidics, fluid-structure interactions. His research work is published in peer-reviewed international journals like Journal of fluid mechanics, Chemical Engineering Science, Physical Rev E, Physics of Fluids etc.
Dr. Ankur Verma
Assistant Professor in Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Hyderabad
Ankur Verma is Assistant Professor in the department of Chemical Engineering at IIT(BHU), Varanasi. He has done his postdoctoral research in the department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore USA. He did his PhD in 2011 from IIT Kanpur in the department of Chemical Engineering. He has received Malhotra Weikfield Foundation Nanoscience Fellowship, Shah-Schulman Award for the best PhD Thesis in the area of Colloid and Interface Sciences (2011) and DST-INSA Inspire Faculty Fellowship in Engineering and Technology (2011). He has published 20 articles in peer reviewed journals and has 2 U.S. patents.
Prof. Joydeep Dutta
Professor of functional materials, KTH Royal Institute of Technology,Sweden
Joydeep Dutta is professor of functional materials at KTH with research focus in the application of nanomaterials for energy and environmental mitigation. A career spanning a little over 30 years, in Japan, France, Switzerland, Thailand and Oman he is in Sweden since 2015. He is an award winning author (American Library Association) has written 3 text books, several book chapters, 260+ original research publications that has received 15,000+ citations. He has spun off several startups and is currently in the board of Stockholmwater Technology, Notun, Straightcoat and Caplyzer, all of them in Sweden.
Prof. Prashant Sonar
Professor in School of Chemistry and Physics and Centre for Material Science, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Prof. Prashant Sonar is ARC Future Fellow and Professor in School of Chemistry and Physics and Centre for Material Science at Queensland University of Technology, (QUT), Australia. He was Visiting Professor at Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur in 2017. He holds adjunct position with Griffith University, Australia and Adjunct Research Fellow position at Organic Electronic Research Centre, Ming Chi University of Technology, New Taipei City, Taiwan. Currently, he is serving as an Associate Editor of the journal Flexible and Printed Electronics, Material Research Express (Institute of Physics, London), Frontier in Chemistry and Energies (MDPI, Switzerland). Recently, he has been elected as Fellow of Royal Chemical Society (FRSC) and Foreign Fellow of Maharashtra Academy of Sciences (FFMAS). He is a recipient of the Award for Excellence-Impact and Translation (2020), Centre for Materials Science, QUT, Australia and IAAM Scientist Award from International Association of Advanced Materials, Sweden (2020) respectively. He also received Thiemann Exchange Program Award to visit Technion-Israel Institute of Technology (2017), Israel and Foreign Collaborator Award from Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas, MEXT, (2016) Japan [19]. He was awarded Vice-Chancellors Performance Award from QUT Australia (2016) and received Long Service Award from IMRE, A*STAR Singapore (2012).
He has published 215 peer-reviewed research papers (H-index-48 according to Google Scholar) and filed 3 US patents.
Dr. Wael Mamdouh
Professor,The American University in Cairo, Egypt
Wael Mamdouh is the leader of the largest dynamic research groups at AUC; “Biomedical Polymer Nanocomposites, Hydrogels and Tissue Engineering”. He is also the founder of a recent Spinoff startup Company (NANOFiB-TECH) specialized in producing a variety of Eco-friendly nanotechnology-based solutions for healthcare sector such as disinfectant, wound care, cosmetics, supplements, additives, etc.
Mamdouh received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Chemistry from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium in 2002 and 2005, and B.Sc. in Science: Chemistry from Ain Shams University, Egypt in 1997. His International publications and U.S. patents received more than 4600 citations worldwide. His research is focused on designing novel polymer nanocomposites, electrospun nanofibers, nanoparticles, Drug delivery nanocarriers, antibacterial nanocoatings and nanoscaffolds for wound dressings and tissue/bone/cartilage regeneration, cosmetics, Nanoporous membranes for biomedical and packaging applications
Dr. HyeonSeok Oh
Smart Sensor, NanoPatterning, Anti-microbial coating
‘98.03: Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, Braunschweig, Germany ( Nano / MEMS major) ‘06.04~84.01: Senior Researcher at LG Institute of Technology ’06.03~‘15.03:Director, Miryang Nano Center, Korea Electric Research Institute(KERI) 2010 Received the Excellence Award in the Research Division of the KERI 2012 Korea Technology Transfer Excellence Researcher Award Developed the world's first magnetic levitation cylindrical large-area nano-exposure equipment ‘15.03.19: Established Ninano Co., Ltd. CEO Development of antimicrobial filter by using nano coating technology Development transparent electromagnetic wave blocking material for 5G- compatible large-area display.
Dr. Mudrika
Associate Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgical Engineering, IIT Hyderabad
Dr Mudrika Khandelwal is currently an associate professor in the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgical Engineering at IIT Hyderabad. Mudrika has been working to develop scientific solutions for societal problems (many of which are part of the SDGs, declared by the UN and priorities of the Indian Government) including antimicrobial materials for food packaging and controlling infectious diseases, materials for energy storage, and environmental remediation, using sustainable nanofibrous cellulosic materials. Earlier she has done her bachelors and masters of technology from IIT Bombay and Doctorate at University of Cambridge, UK. Her work has received the Gandhian Young Technological Innovation award in 2016. She is also the nominated and elected fellow to Indian National Young academy of Sciences and member to National Academy of Sciences, India. Recently, she has received the prestigious Young Engineer Award from Indian National Academy of Engineers and the National Academy of Sciences India Platinum Jubilee Young Scientist Award. She has also received women excellence award from SERB.
