Leena Nebhani
Professor, DMSE, IITD
Courses (2015-Present)
Polymer Characterization PTL705/MLL723 Teaching Excellence Award 2023
Characterization of Materials-I MLL104
Polymer Testing and Properties PTL706/MLL725
Polymer Blends and Composites PTL712
Polymer Engineering Lab PTP720
Polymer Science Lab PTP709, Introduced new experiment on "Synthesis of Hydrogels"
Diversifying Visitors to UNSW Engineering Scheme, Australia June 2025
Organizer of the International Symposium on Advanced Materials for Sustainable Energy Applications, funded by SPARC, January 2025
International visitor-Prof Dipan Kundu, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, December 2024- January 2025
International visitor- Group of five faculty from the University of Paderborn (Department of Chemistry), Germany to work on International Research Training Group proposal, September 2022
International visitor- Prof. Dirk Kuckling, University of Paderborn (Department of Chemistry), Germany 2019, 2020 & 2023
International visitor- Prof. Paras N Prasad, University at Buffalo, USA -2022 & 2023
Visiting Faculty at the University of New South Wales, Australia, June 2022-July 2022
International visitor- Dr. Carsten Schmiegel, University of Paderborn, Germany 2020
International visitor- Dr. Surendra Chawla, Dr. Kuo-Chih Hua, Dr. Bruce Hahn, Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, USA 2018
Invited talk, 16th International Conference on Frontiers of Polymers and Advanced Materials, 2024, IISER Berhampur, India, November 2024
Invited talk, Advanced Functional Materials for Sustainable Applications, 2024, Shiv Nadar University, India, January 2024
Award lecture, Prof K. Kishore Memorial Award at SPSI MACRO 2023 IIT Guwahati, India, December 2023
Lecture, Course on Polymer Technology given to Maruti-Suzuki India Ltd, IIT Delhi, March 2023
Invited talk, CRSI-ACS lecture at 31st CRSI National Symposium in Chemistry, CRSI-ACS Symposium Series, July 2023, NIT Rourkela, July 2023
Invited talk and Co-Organizer, IIT-UB Conclave on Nanomaterials, Photonics, Sensors, AI and their Applications in Security, Healthcare, and Smart Living, November 2022
Invited talk and Co-organizer, International workshop on "Convergence of Photonics, Biology and Nanomedicine to transform Healthcare", January 2022
Invited talk, SPSI MACRO 2022 IISER Pune, November 2022
Research Excellence Award (Early Career), Indian Institute of Technology Delhi 2021
Invited talk, Faculty Development Program in Frontiers in Science and Engineering by Women in Science, February, 2021
Invited talk and Session Chair, Advancements in Polymeric Materials 2020, February 2020
Visiting Faculty at the University of New South Wales, Australia, May 2019-June 2019
Visiting Faculty at the University of Sydney, Australia, June 2018-July 2018
Visiting Faculty at the University of New South Wales, Australia, May 2017 – July 2017
Ten granted US patents and 2 granted Indian patents
Scholarship from DAAD to attend the American Chemical Society 239th National Meeting and Exposition (March 2010), San Francisco, USA, March 2010
Postgraduate scholarship from Faculty of Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia which included annual stipend and remission of tuition fees, 2007
DAAD (German Academic Exchange) scholarship holder for completing Master of Technology final year project from Technical University Dresden, Germany 2006
First position in Master of Technology, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India 2007
All India rank of 64th in Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) with percentile of 98.13, 2005
Qualified Junior Research Fellowship Examination conducted jointly by CSIR-UGC (Council of Scientific and Industrial Research-University Grants Commission) 2005
Second position in Master of Sciences, University of Rajasthan, India 2003
Seventh position in Bachelor of Sciences (Honors), University of Rajasthan, India 2001
Third position in Industrial Microbiology examination, University of Rajasthan, India, 1999