About
Dr. Manash R. Das is a Senior Principal Scientist at CSIR–North East Institute of Science and Technology (CSIR-NEIST), Jorhat, and Professor at the Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), India. He also served as the AcSIR Coordinator from 2020 to 2025. Dr. Das earned his MSc from Gauhati University (2000) and his PhD from Dibrugarh University (2007). He conducted postdoctoral research in Lille University, France, from 2007– 2008. His extensive research interests include the value addition of North East India’s minerals, designing 2D nanocomposite materials and graphene/borophene nanomaterials, and fabricating microfluidic paper-based analytical devices (mPADs) for sensing. He also focuses on photothermal therapy for cancer, photocatalytic degradation of pollutants, and developing single-atom catalysts as nanozymes. Dr. Das has published over 200 research articles.He has served as a visiting faculty at Novosibirsk State University, Russia, and at the University of Mato Grosso do Sul (UFMS), Brazil.