Dr. Pritam Kumar Dikshit is currently serving as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biotechnology at Dr. B. R. Ambedkar National Institute of Technology (NIT), Jalandhar, Punjab, India. He earned his Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati, where his doctoral research focused on “Bioconversion of Crude Glycerol to Dihydroxyacetone by Immobilized Gluconobacter oxydans: Process Design, Optimization, and Intensification.” He holds a B.Tech. in Biotechnology from Biju Patnaik University of Technology, Odisha, and an M.Tech. in Biotechnology from Karunya University, Tamil Nadu. 

Following his Ph.D., Dr. Dikshit joined The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), New Delhi as a Research Associate, where he worked on biological wastewater treatment integrated with membrane filtration processes. In 2019, he was awarded the prestigious Brain Korea 21 Plus Fellowship and pursued postdoctoral research at Chungbuk National University, Republic of Korea. He has also held academic positions as an Assistant Professor at Sharda University, Greater Noida (U.P.) and K.L. University, Guntur (A.P.) before joining NIT Jalandhar. 

Dr. Dikshit has published numerous peer-reviewed research papers in reputed journals. He is the recipient of the 7th National Award from the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers, Department of Chemicals and Petrochemicals, Government of India, and the Young Scientist Award from the International Society for Energy, Environment, and Sustainability (ISEES) in recognition of his contributions to research and academia.