पेट्रोलियम अनुसंधान केंद्र

CENTRE FOR PETROLEUM RESEARCH

CSIR-NORTH EAST INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

A Constituent Laboratory of Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR)

Ministry of Science and Technology, Govt. of India

Scientists

Adjunct Member

HOD

Personal Website

Dr. Swapnali Hazarika, FRSC

M.Sc. (Chemistry), Ph.D.

Senior Principal Scientist & Professor (AcSIR)

ID. No. 1053

swapnali@neist.res.in, shrrljt@yahoo.com

Ph: + 91- 0376-237011/2370139 extn. 2383 Fax:0376-2370011, Mob: +91-9435713687

Area’s of Interest : Membrane Science & Technology: Design and Development of membrane for different applications e.g. Membranes for Racemic resolution, Gas Separation, Biomolecules separation, Treatment of Industrial waste water etc., Chemical Kinetics, Reaction Engineering of Chemical/Biochemical processes, Adsorption and Adsorptive Separation processes, Polymer Chemistry and Engineering: Design and development of Chiral Polymers, Extraction/Isolation of bioactive molecules from natural Feedstock, Process optimization and scaling up, Molecular Modelling and Simulation using DFT

Dr. Saurabh Baruah

M.Sc. (Physics), MS (S&T), Ph.D. (Physics)

Chief Scientist

Mr. Jayanta Jyoti Bora

BE (Mechanical engg)

Chief Scientist

Dr. Ratul Saikia

Ph.D. (Biotechnology)

Sr. Principal Scientist

Dr. Prakash Jyoti Saikia

Ph.D. (Polymer chemistry)

Principal Scientist

ID. No. 1080

saikiapj@neist.res.in

Ph: ext. 2343 Fax : +91 0376 2370011

Area’s of Interest : Analytical chemistry, Polymer chemistry, Spectroscopy

Dr. Sangeeta Sharma

M.Tech (Applied geology), Ph.D

Sr. Scientist

ID. No. 1111

sangees_online@rediffmail.com, sangeeta@neist.res.in

Ph : + 91- 0376-2370114 Fax:0376-2370011

Area’s of Interest : Geomorphology, Neo-tectonics, Seismic microzonation

Mr. Ravi Kumar Lingam

M.Tech (Chemical Engg.) IIT Kharagpur

Scientist

ID. No. 1273

ravilingam@neist.res.in,ravikgp@gmail.com

Ph: 0376-2370121

Area’s of Interest :Scaleup of chemical processes, Process intensification, Process Engineering, Phytochemicals extraction, Phytopharmaceuticals, Leaching, Equilibrium Separations, Green Technology

Dr. Hridoy Jyoti Mahanta

Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering

Scientist

ID No. 1298

Email ID: hridoy@neist.res.in, hridoy69@gmail.com

Area's of Interest: Arificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Software development, Database Development

Mr. Dipak Basumatari

BE (Civil Engg.), ME (Geotechnical Engg)

Principal Scientist

ID. No. 1062

basumatarid@neist.res.in, dipakbasu2006@rediffmail.com

Ph: +91 0376 2370121 extn 2375 Fax:0376-2370011

Area’s of Interest : Geotechnical investigation & Safe and economical design of foundation, Testing of various building & road materials.

Dr. Anil Kumar Singh

Ph.D. (Life sciences), Bose Institute, Kolkata, India

Post-Doctoral Fellow, NECKER Institute (INSERM), Paris, France

Principal Scientist & Associate Professor

ID. No. 1225

anil@neist.res.in, 1010anil@gmail.com

Ph: +91-(0)376-2372951 +91-8876954752

Area’s of Interest : Mechanistic understanding of bacterial drug resistance in human and animals, Development of therapeutics and diagnostics against resistant bacteria, Microbial Genetics and gene regulation, Environmental microbiology, Clinical microbiology and bacterial genomics

Dr. Lakshi Saikia

Ph.D. (Inorganic chemistry)

Principal Scientist

ID. No. 1082

lsaikia@neist.res.in

Ph.: +91 0376 2370081 (o) Fax:0376-2370011

Area’s of Interest : Materials synthesis & characterization, Clay materials

Mr. Dipankar Neog

BE (Mechanical engg) M.Tech (Petroleum exploration & production)

Senior Principal Scientist

ID. No. 1054

dneog@neist.res.in

Ph.:+91 0376-2370117 /Fax:0376-2370011

Area’s of Interest : Engineering design, Mathematical modelling

Dr. Pravin G. Ingole,FMASc.

Ph.D. PDF at KIER, South Korea.

Sr. Scientist

ID. No. 1280

ingolepravin@gmail.com, pingole@neist.res.in

Ph: 0376-2370011

Area’s of Interest : Membrane science and technology, with special interest in - Thin film composite (TFC) and Thin film nanocomposite (TFN) membrane synthesis, Separation processes like, Enantiomer separation, Gas separation etc., Polymer surface modification, Applications to water and wastewater, Membrane fouling , Pressure retarded osmosis (PRO), Membrane technology, Hybrid separation and reaction/separation systems, Low cost & high performance technologies,

Dr. Sachin Rameshrao Geed

B.Tech - Chemical Engineering, LIT Nagpur

M.Tech & Ph.D.- Chemical Engineering and Technology, IIT (BHU) Varanasi

Scientist

ID. No. 1303

sachingeed23@gmail.com, sachingeed@neist.res.in

Ph: +91 0376-2370121 /Fax : +91 0376 2370011

Area’s of Interest : Bioremediation of petroleum waste, Remediation of emerging pollutants,Growth and inhibition Modeling of biological processes, Microbial strain enrichment for sustainable bio-treatment of organic waste, Bioprocesses design and development forindustrial wastetreatment, Biosurfactant, Development hybrid biological processes for industrial waste/wastewater treatment, Mass transfer studies, Supercritical extraction,Bioreactor and Biofilter performance evaluation

Dr. Jitendra Singh Verma

B.Tech. (Biotechnology Engg.), M.Tech (Biochemical Engg.) IIT (BHU) Varanasi, Ph.D. (Biochemical Engg.) (IIT Delhi)

Scientist

ID. No. 1285

jitendrasinghverma@gmail.com, jsverma@neist.res.in

Ph: +91-6000305400

Area’s of Interest : Bioprocess development, scale-up, technology transfer, validation. Modeling of biological systems. Microbial strain improvement for sustainable production of fermentation products. Quality by design (QbD). Process analytical technology (PAT). Process specific Bioreactor design and development.

Dr. Uma Maheswari R

Ph.D. (Chemical Engineering)

Scientist

umamaheswari@neist.res.in

Ph: 9345469129

Area's of Interest: Multidisciplinary Approaches: Biomass Valorisation, High Performance Materials, Novel Separation Processes – Membrane Based Separation and Purification of Products, Enzyme Applications, and Microbial Degradation of Hazardous Waste

Technical Staff