Dr. Paramita Das

Education

• Ph.D., RWTH Aachen University, Germany (2016).

• M.Tech. (Polymer Science & Technology), Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (2011).

• B.Tech. (Polymer Science & Technology), Calcutta University, Kolkata (2009).

• B.Sc. (Chemistry Hons.), Calcutta University, Kolkata (2006).

Professional Experience

• Head, Department of Chemical Engineering, IISER Bhopal (January 2026 –  Present

• Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering, IISER Bhopal (August 2025 – Present)

• Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering, IISER Bhopal (August 2018 – August 2025)

• Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (March 2016 – August 2018)

• Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark (July 2015 – October 2015)

Achievements 

• Executive Committee Member, Asian Polymer Association, April 2026 - present

• Selected as a Senior Individual Member of Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) (2026-2031)

• Associate Editor, Frontiers in Soft Matter (polymer section), Sept. 2025 – present

• Reviewer of the PMRF Annual Review for May 2025.

• Inducted as a Member of the Indian National Young Academy of Science (INYAS) at INSA, New Delhi. Membership (2024 - 2029)

• SERB-POWER Research grant on 1 September 2023 (2023 - 2026) by SERB, DST, Govt. of India.

• Young Woman Researcher Award in Polymer Science and Technology (Engineering discipline) by Venus International Foundation in the 9th Venus International Women Awards (VIWA) on March 2, 2024.

•  CSIR-A Special Call for Research Grants for Women Scientists (CSIR-ASPIRE Grant 2023-24) as Co-PI.

• Magna Cum Laude award for very good grade in Ph.D, 2016 from the Faculty of Natural Sciences, RWTH Aachen University, Germany.

• DAAD scholarship to pursue M.Tech. research project in RWTH Aachen, Germany under DAAD-IIT Master’s sandwich Programme, 2010.

Conferences (selected):

1. Invited Talk in the SPSI-MACRO-2025 (Dec 15-18, 2025) in IIT Kharagpur Research Park, Kolkata 

2. Delivered an online lecture in the Refresher’s course under Malvia Mission Teacher’s Training Program (MMTTP), organized by CS2, IISER Bhopal, Nov 4-18, 2024. 

3. Invited talk at the International Conference on Smart Materials for Sustainable Technology (SMST-2024) held at INST, Mohali, Oct 24-27, 2024.

 4. Keynote Lecture at the International Conference on Biopolymers & Green Composites (BPGC 2024), organized by CIPET: IPT-Kochi, Kerala, Oct 18-19, 2024.

 5. Paper presentation on the title of "Cellulose Nanocrystals based Sustainable Nanocomposite Membranes for Removal of Dyes from Wastewater" in the 9th Annual Women's Meet – AWM 2024 in Chennai on March 2, 2024

 6. Invited talk at the International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Environment (ICSEE 2024) held at MANIT, Bhopal, Feb 23-25, 2024. 

7. Invited talk at Asis-Australasia Regional Conference (PPS-2023), Kovalam, Kerala, Nov 19 – Dec 2, 2023 

8. Invited talk (webinar) on Mechanically robust and multifunctional bioinspired ternary nanocomposites, at Centurion University, Oct 4, 2023

 9. Delivered an online lecture (in Hindi) for the Rashtriya Avishkar Abhiyan (RAA) lectures, on January 20, 2023. Lecture Title: Polymers in Our Daily Life / हमारेदैनिक जीवि मेंपॉनिमर (बहुिक). 

10. Two Poster Presentations at SPSI-MACRO-2022, NCL Pune and IISER Pune, 2022. 

11. Invited talk at International Conference on Polymer Science and Engineering scheduled (polymers-2022), organized by United Scientific Group, Los Angeles, CA. 

12. Invited talk at online ICMT 2021, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala, India 

13. Invited talk at Complex Fluids (CompFlu-2019), IISER Bhopal, India 

Membership 

• Senior Individual Member of Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE), Feb 2026 - present 

• Member, Indian National Young Academy of Science (INYAS) at INSA, New Delhi (2024 - present) 

• Life Member, The Society for Polymer Science, India 

• Life Member, The Indian Science Congress Association, India 

• Life Member, Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers, India 

• Member, American Chemical Society, USA 

• Life Member, IIT Delhi Alumni Association 

• Member, RWTH Aachen Alumni Network 

• Life Member, Polymer Processing Academy, India