Dr. Prachi Thareja

Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Gandhinagar

Affiliated Faculty: Dr. Kiran C. Patel Center for Sustainable Development, IIT Gandhinagar

• Post-Doc, University of Delaware

• M.S., Chemical Engineering, University of Pittsburgh

• PhD, Chemical Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Particles at Fluid-Fluid Interfaces

• B.Tech, HBTI Kanpur

Courses at IIT Gandhinagar

• Advance Thermodynamics (PG)

• Introduction to Thermodynamics (UG)

• Fluid Mechanics (UG)

• Colloidal Domain: Where Science Meets Engineering (UG & PG)

• Formulation Science and Engineering

Journal articles on teaching pedagogy

•   Patel, Panchami and Thareja, Prachi, “Colloids and interfaces: where Science meets Engineering, a hands-on learning approach”, Journal of Chemical Education, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jchemed.3c01218, Apr. 2024.

• Shah, Jay and Thareja, Prachi, “Design Your Experiment (DYE) project based learning in fluid mechanics laboratory”, ASEAN Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 51-57, Nov. 2021.

Honours (Medals, Fellowships, Prizes)

• India Institute Women in Research Fellowship, University of Birmingham awarded by India Institute, University of Birmingham, 2023

• Mechanically tunable adsorbent grapheme oxide gels, Poster presentation in the International Conference on Applied Surface Science, China, 12-15th June 2017, (received the SPECS prize for the best poster)

• Shortlisted for INAE Young Engineer Award, 2017

• Self-assembly and Rheology of Colloidal particles in Hexagonal and Nematic Liquid Crystals, Poster Presentation in Faraday Discussion-Nanoparticle Self-Assembly: From Fundamental to Applications, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, January 6-8, 2016. (received the Skinner’s prize for the best poster)

• Sunoco Chemical Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh, 2008

• Gold Medal for best academic performance, HBTI Kanpur, 2003