You have a right to perform your prescribed duty, but you are not entitled to the fruits of action. Never consider yourself to be the cause of the results of your activities, and never be attached to not doing your duty. - Bhagavad Gita, Chapter II, Verse 47
🟧 Education
PhD (Chemical Engineering), IIT Guwahati, Assam, India, 2017
M.Tech. (Biotechnology), Karunya University, Tamil Nadu, 2012
B.Tech. (Biotechnology), Biju Patnaik University of Technology, Odisha, 2009
🟧 Experience
Assistant Professor, Department of Biotechnology, Dr B R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology Jalandhar, Punjab. (September 2021 - Present)
Assistant Professor, Department of Biotechnology, K. L. Deemed to be University, Andhra Pradesh. (September 2021 - September 2024)
Assistant Professor, Department of Life Sciences, Sharda University, Greater Noida. (September 2020 - August 2021)
Postdoctoral Researcher, Chungbuk National University, Republic of Korea. (April 2019 - February 2020)
Research Associate, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), New Delhi. (June 2018 - March 2019)
🟧 Awards and Honors
Received Young Scientist Award-2022 from International Society for Energy, Environment, and Sustainability (ISEES) at the annual conference of the society i.e. VI International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Environmental Challenges (VI SEEC) held at Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh during December 27-29, 2021.
Awarded as a winner in the category of “Innovation in Polymeric Material” in 7th National Award for Technology Innovation in Petrochemicals & Downstream Plastic Processing Industry (2016-17) given by Ministry of Chemicals & Fertilizers, Department of Chemicals and Petrochemicals, Govt. of India.
Awarded for Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing from Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering (Elsevier).
Best Paper Award in Reflux 2016, organized by Dept. of Chemical Engg., IIT Guwahati.
Best Poster Award in Research Conclave 2016, organized by IIT Guwahati, Assam, India.
🟧 Professional Membership
Lifetime member of “The Biotech Research Society, India” (Member ID – LM1752).
Lifetime member of “Society of Biological Chemist, India” (Member ID – 3559).
🟧 Editorial Experience
Editorial Board Member of Scientific Reports Journal (Springer Nature).
Editorial Board Member of Discover Applied Sciences Journal (Springer Nature).
Topic editor for the journal Catalysts (MDPI).
Special issue editor:
▶️ Topic: Green approaches for the synthesis of nanomaterials, Frontiers in Chemistry.
▶️ Topic: Recent Advances on Nano-Catalysts for Biological Processes-II, Catalysts Journal.
▶️ Topic: Applications of Nanocatalytic Processes: Water, Wastewater and Air Treatment, Catalysts Journal.
▶️ Topic: Biological Production of Hydrogen from Biomasses, Processes Journal.
▶️ Topic: Recent Advances on Nano-Catalysts for Biological Processes, Catalysts Journal.