Dr. Sudip Das was awarded with dual degrees - B.Tech (Hons.) and M.Tech in Chemical Engineering from IIT Kharagpur in 2013. During this tenure, Sudip worked under the supervision of Professor Narayan C Pradhan for his BTP and MTP thesis. After that, he worked in the R&D division ofL&T Hydrocarbon Engineering Limited for a couple of years. In 2015, he joined Professor Sanjay Mahajani's group at IIT Bombay for his doctoral tenure and awarded with a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering in 2022. Sudip's Ph.D. thesis was on 'Catalyst and process development for cumene hydroperoxide based synthesis of 2-phenylethanol'. Primarily experimentalist Sudip then joined Dr. Ojus Mohan's CARES Lab at IIT Bombay and worked as an Institute Postdoctoral Fellow on DFT-based computational catalysis for a year before joining Professor Ryan Hartman's group at Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department of New York University as a Postdoctoral Research Associate. At NYU, Sudip shifted his research focus to nonthermal plasma assisted chemical reaction engineering.
Sudip has research internship experiences from Professor Ajay Dalai's group at University of Saskatchewan, Canada andProfessor Rajaram Bal's group at CSIR-Indian Institute of Petroleum, Dehradun. Sudip worked in the Naphtha Cracking Unit of Haldia Petrochemical Limited (HPL) and in the Ammonia Syn-Gas Synthesis Plant of Gujarat Narmadavalley Fertilizer & Chemicals Limited (GNFC) for brief spans. Also, Sudip has been associated with the early-stage ideation, organization, and execution of the pedagogical Chem Engg course offered by IIT Bombay - 'Course on Wheels', that is designed to bridge the gap between industry and acadmeia, and arguably can be referred to as 'unique' in the Indian context.