Team
Prof. Leena Nebhani
Leena.Nebhani@mse.iitd.ac.in
Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, September 2020-Present
Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, April 2015-September 2020
Senior Scientist, Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, USA, January 2011-April 2015
Education
PhD in Polymer Chemistry (Sept 2007-July 2010)
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany under the supervision of Prof. Christopher Barner-Kowollik. Initiated PhD at Centre for Advanced Macromolecular Design, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia which was transferred to KIT.
Master of Technology in Polymer Science and Technology (July 2005-June 2007)
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India.
Master of Science in Chemistry (Major Organic Chemistry, August 2001-December 2003)
Department of Chemistry, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, India.
Bachelor of Science in Chemistry Honors (subsidiary subject-Industrial Microbiology, July 1998-June 2001)
Maharani College, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, India.
Visiting Appointments
Visiting Faculty at the University of New South Wales, Australia (May 2017-July 2017)
Visiting Faculty at the University of Sydney, Australia (June 2018-July 2018)
Visiting Faculty at the University of New South Wales, Australia (May 2019-June 2019)
Visiting Faculty at the University of Paderborn, Germany (May 2020-June 2020, postponed due to COVID)
Other Responsibilities
2022-2023: Department Research Committee (DRC) Chair, DMSE, IIT Delhi
2019-2022: PhD Coordinator, Department Research Committee (DRC), DMSE, IIT Delhi
2018-Present: Academic Editor PLOS One
2021-Present: Expert committee member (Co-opted), Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Department of Science and Technology
2021-Present: Member of screening committee, Science and Engineering Research Board-Scientific and Useful Profound Research Advancement (SERB-SUPRA), Department of Science and Technology
2019-2021: Expert committee member (Invitee), Science and Engineering Research Board, Department of Science and Technology
2019-2020: MS(R) Coordinator, Department Research Committee (DRC), DMSE, IIT Delhi
2017-2018: Committee member for finalizing MOUs for the joint degree program with IIT Delhi
2016: Institute Printing Coordinator, IIT Delhi Open House
2017-2019: Faculty Board Secretary
2015-2016: Department website and seminar in-charge
Reviewer
Polymer Chemistry
ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering
Journal of Materials Chemistry B
ACS Omega
RSC Advances
International Journal of Biological Macromolecules
International Journal of Polymer Science
Macromolecular Materials and Engineering
Composite Structures
Applied Composite Materials
Journal of Renewable Materials
Polymer
Polymer and Polymer Composites
Journal of Chemical Sciences
Nanotechnology
ChemistrySelect
Bulletin of Materials Science
Science and Engineering Research Board, Department of Science and Technology, Prime Minister Research Fellowship, BIRAC's Biotechnology Ignition Grant (BIG) Scheme
Awards Received
Prof. K. Kishore Memorial Award, Society of Polymer Science India (2023)
Teaching Excellence Award, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (2023)
Polymer Chemistry Emerging Investigator (2023)
Faculty Research Award, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (2021)
Ten granted US patents, one US patent application and one Indian patent application. Development of innovative and scalable technologies-Successfully transferred technology from lab scale to pilot plant scale (500 gallon)
Postgraduate scholarship from Faculty of Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia which included annual stipend and remission of tuition fees
DAAD scholarship to complete Master of Technology final year project from Technical University Dresden, Germany
First position in Master of Technology, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India
All India rank of 67th in Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) with percentile of 98.13
Qualified Junior Research Fellowship examination conducted jointly by CSIR and UGC
Second position in Master of Sciences, University of Rajasthan, India
Seventh position in Bachelor of Sciences (Honors), University of Rajasthan, India
Third position in Industrial Microbiology first year examination, University of Rajasthan, India
Teaching
Polymer Characterization PTL705 (I Semester 2015-2016, 2016-2017, 2017-2018, 2018-2019, 2019-2020, 2020-2021, 2021-2022, 2022-2023, MLL723 2023-2024).
Polymer Blends and Composites PTL712 (II Semester 2017-2018, 2018-2019, 2019-2020, 2020-2021, 2021- 2022).
Polymer Testing and Properties PTL706 (II Semester 2015-2016).
Polymer Engineering Lab PTP720 (II Semester 2015-2016).
Polymer Science Lab PTP709 (I Semester 2017-2018, 2018-2019, 2019-2020, MLP728 2023-2024), Introduced new experiment on "Synthesis of Hydrogels".
PhD Students
Ehteshamul Islam
Shear thickening behaviour of functionalized/hybrid silica (Part-Time PhD)
ptz178521@polymers.iitd.ac.in
Lukkumanul Hakkim N.
Functionalization of silica from Rice Husk Ash (PMRF-SERB-FICCI)
msz188023@mse.iitd.ac.in
Amit Kumar
Synthesis of mesoporous silica for anti-microbial application
msz188015@mse.iitd.ac.in
Ingita Tiwari (PMRF)
msz208141@mse.iitd.ac.in
Gaurav Rai
msz208140@mse.iitd.ac.in
Priyanshi Goel
msz218023@mse.iitd.ac.in
Manish Kumar
Synthesis of functionalized polymers using PET-RAFT technique
msz228068@mse.iitd.ac.in
Subhendu Kumar Sahoo
Antimicrobial medical sutures by incorporating functional nanoparticles (Part-Time PhD) msz238271@iitd.ac.in
MS(R) Student M.Tech Students
Reshma K.
msy227528@mse.iitd.ac.in
Subhajit Bag
Functionalized polymeric gel for catalysis
msp222500@mse.iitd.ac.in
Premchand Nuthi
Rheology of functionalized silica for stabilizing Pickering Emulsions
msp222752@iitd.ac.in
Project Students
Nilanjan Mukherjee
Nilanjan321@gmail.com
Debjit Mal
Synthesis of mesoporous silica for anti-microbial application
debjitml99@gmail.com
Visitors at SurfChem
Dr. Surendra Chawla, Dr. Kuo-Chih Hua, Dr. Bruce Hahn, Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, USA (2018)
Prof. Dirk Kuckling, University of Paderborn, Germany (2019, 2020, 2023)
Dr. Carsten Schmiegel, University of Paderborn, Germany (2020)
Prof. Paras N Prasad, University at Buffalo, USA (2022, 2023)
Group of five faculty from the University of Paderborn, Germany (2022)
SurfChem Scientists as Visitors
Leena Nebhani, University of New South Wales, Australia (2022)
Amit Kumar, University of Paderborn, Germany (2021)
Smrutirekha Mishra, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan (2019)
Leena Nebhani, University of New South Wales, Australia (2017, 2019)
Leena Nebhani, University of Sydney, Australia (2018)
Gallery
Alumni
Post Doc
Dr. Pratibha Sharma (2018-2022), Assistant Professor at Amity University Noida, India.
PhD
Dr. Sumbul Hafeez (TEMPO initiated thiol-ene reaction as an efficient conjugation method for the preparation of functionalized polymers and surfaces, 2015-2020), Post-Doctoral Scientist at Villanova University, USA.
Dr. Smrutirekha Mishra (RAFT agent primed mesoporous silica particles for selective grafting of polymer chains and their applications, 2015-2021), Assistant Professor at ICT-IOC Bhubaneswar, India.
MTech
Dharmendra Chauhan (2014-2016), Senior Engineer at LG
Ahilan Manisekaran (2015-2017), Pursuing PhD at Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg
Parna Nandi (2015-2017), Pursuing PhD at Department of Textile and Fibre Engineering, IIT Delhi
Pushpa Yadav (2015-2017), Product Design Owner (PDO), Baxter International Inc., Bangalore
Surya KP (2015-2017), Pursuing PhD at IIT Kharagpur
Amit Kumar (2016-2018), Pursuing PhD at Surface and Macromolecular Chemistry Lab, DMSE, IIT Delhi
Pratim Patra (2016-2018), Senior Executive Manager at Pidilite, Mumbai
Subhendu Sahoo (2016-2018), Sr. design engineer - Polymer, Stryker Global Technology Center Pvt Ltd., Gurgaon
K. Ramachandran (2016-2018), Post Graduate Trainee Executive at Endurance Technologies Limited
Pramit Dutta (2017-2019), Post Graduate Trainee Executive at Saint Gobain
Omair Malik (2017-2019), CEO at Senior Hosiery Works
Laxmi Prajapati (2017-2019), HPCL R&D (Petrochemicals and Polymer Department)
Desh Deepak Singh (2018-2020), Avery Dennison
Amit Patel (2018-2020), SMT Medical Technology
Vishnu Dutt (2019-2021)
Deepali Prajapati (2019-2021), Bajaj Auto, Pune
Siddhesh Rege (2020-2022), pursuing PhD at IISc Bangalore
Abhishek Yadav (2020-2022)
Thaseeb Rehman (2021-2023)
Swapnil Dashrath Mahajan (2021-2023)
Rafiq Mohammad (2021-2023)
Project
Dr. Priyanshi Agnihotri
BTech
G. Sanjay Aravindhan (2021-2022), SURA Project
Udita Wadhwa (2022-2023), (PI-Prof Preeti Srivastava, Co-PI-Prof Leena Nebhani)
Ankita Ghosh (2022-2023), (PI-Prof J P Singh, Co-PI-Prof Leena Nebhani)
Yashavi Ghadale (2022-2023), (PI-Prof J P Singh, Co-PI-Prof Leena Nebhani)