Center for the Environment

Faculty

Prof. Ajay Kalamdhad

Professor, Department of Civil Engineering E-mail: kajay@iitg.ac.in Phone: +91361-2582431 (O)

Research Interest: Solid waste management, Mechanical composting and vermicomposting, Analysis of solid wastes

Prof. A. B. Kunnumakkara

Professor,Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering E-mail: kunnumakkara@iitg.ac.in Phone: +91361-2582231 (O)

Research Interest: Novel biomarkers for cancer diagnosis and prognosis, Cancer drug discovery, Development of transgenic and gene knockout mouse models for biomedical research.

Prof. Bishnupada Mandal

Professor, Department of Chemcal Engineering E-mail: bpmandal@iitg.ac.in Phone: +91361-2582256 (O)

Research Interest: Wastewater Treatment, Carbon-di-oxide separation using membrane contactors, Carbon-di-oxide facilitated transport polymer membranes.

Prof. Anamika Barua

Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences E-mail: abarua@iitg.ac.in Phone: +91361-2582563 (O)

Research Interest: Climate Change and Water security, Ecological Footprint, Virtual Water flows through trade,Water governance including transboundary water governance.

Prof. Chandan Das

Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering E-mail: cdas@iitg.ac.in Phone: +91361-2582268 (O)

Research Interest: Membrane Separation Technology, Food Science & Technology, Sustainable Material for Corrosion Protection, Heavy metal remediation using Sprirulina pletensis, a blue-green micro algae

Prof. Arun Goyal

Professor, Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering E-mail: arungoyl@iitg.ac.in Phone: +91361-2582208 (O)

Research Interest:

Prof. Chandan Mukherjee

Professor, Department of Chemistry E-mail: cmukherjee@iitg.ac.in Phone: +91361-2582327 (O)

Research Interest: Oxidation Catalysis / Molecular Magnetism / Synthesis of Single-Molecule Magnets (SMMs) / MRI Contrast agents / Water Oxidation Chemistry.

Prof. Arup K. Sarma

Professor, Department of Civil Engineering E-mail: aks@iitg.ac.in Phone: +91361-2582409 (O)

Research Interest: Modelling and Simulation in Free Surface Flow, Heuristic Methods in Reservoir Optimization, GIS Based Watershed Modelling.

Prof. Debasis Manna

Professor, Department of Chemistry E-mail: dmanna@iitg.ac.in Phone: +91361-2582325 (O)

Research Interest: Ion transport, Liposomal drug delivery, Drug discovery and immunotherapy.

Prof. Bhisma Kumar Patel

Professor, Department of Chemistry E-mail: patel@iitg.ac.in Phone: +91361-2582307 (O)

Research Interest: Green Chemistry, Organo and organometalic catalysis, Heterocyclic chemistry, Organic tribromide mediated organic synthesis.

Prof. Gopal Das

Professor, Department of Chemistry E-mail: gdas@iitg.ac.in Phone: +91361-2582313 (O)

Research Interest: Biomineralization and Biomimetic Material Chemistry, Interaction of Proteins at Solid-liquid Interface, Wastewater Treatment.

Prof. Chivukula V. Sastri

Professor, Department of Chemistry E-mail: sastricv@iitg.ac.in Phone: +91361-2582323 (O)

Research Interest: Biomimetic Chemistry and Chemical Biology.

Prof. Kannan Pakshirajan

Professor, Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering E-mail: pakshi@iitg.ac.in Phone: +91361-2582210 (O)

Research Interest: Environmental Technology.

Prof. G. Pugazhenthi

Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering E-mail: pugal@iitg.ac.in Phone: +91361-2582264 (O)

Research Interest: Membrane Separation Process, Polymer Nanocomposite, Nanomaterials, Adsorption, Wastewater Treatment.

Dr. Krishna Pada Bhabak

Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry E-mail: kbhabak@iitg.ac.in Phone: +91361-2582349 (O)

Research Interest: Organic & Bio-organic Chemistry.

Prof. Gurvinder Kaur Saini

Professor, Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering E-mail: gurvinder@iitg.ac.in Phone: +91361-2582207 (O)

Research Interest: Fungal Biotechnology, Biological Control, DNA fingerprinting and Transformation studies, Studies on extracellular enzymes and toxic metabolite production, Development of a potent biopesticide.

Prof. Lal Mohan Kundu

Professor, Department of Chemistry E-mail: lmkundu@iitg.ac.in Phone: +91361-2582326 (O)

Research Interest: Nucleic Acid / Peptide Chemistry, DNA / RNA Damage and Repair, DNA Hybrid Materials.

Prof. Karuna Kalita

Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering E-mail: karuna.kalita@iitg.ac.in Phone: +91361-2582680 (O)

Research Interest: Coupled Dynamics of Electro-Mechanical Systems | Vibration | Rotordynamics.

Prof. Manabendra Ray

Professor, Department of Chemistry E-mail: manabray@iitg.ac.in Phone: +91361-2582310 (O)

Research Interest: Application of coordination chemistry in chiral recognition, supra-molecular assembly, metal ion assisted organic reaction and metal removal from waste water.

Prof. Kaustubha Mohanty

Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering E-mail: kmohanty@iitg.ac.in Phone: +91361-2582267 (O)

Research Interest: Bioseparation, Biofuels, Biological wastewater treatment, Membrane technology, Ionic liquids.

Dr. Manabendra Sarma

Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry E-mail: msarma@iitg.ac.in Phone: +91361-2582318 (O)

Research Interest: Development of new theoretical approaches to: Laser Assisted Control of Chemical Reactions, and, Resonances in Electron - Molecule Scattering.

Prof. Lalit Mohan Pandey

Professor, Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering E-mail: lalitpandey@iitg.ac.in Phone: +91361-2583201 (O)

Research Interest: Environmental Chemical Engineering; Nanomaterials for Environmental applications.

Prof. Mihir Kumar Purkait

Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering E-mail: mihir@iitg.ac.in Phone: +91361-2582262 (O)

Research Interest: Advance Separation Processes, Membrane technology. Preparation/fabrication of ceramic/polymeric membranes and their application in RO, NF, UF and MF. Treatment of Industrial Effluent, Surfactant mediated separation processes

Dr. Meena Khwairakpam

Associate Professor, School of Agro and Rural Technology E-mail: meena.kh@iitg.ac.in Phone: +91361-2583798 (O)

Research Interest: Area of Interest/Research: Solid waste management, Mechanical composting and vermi composting, Analysis of solid wastes, Biological waste treatment, Water Supply and Sanitation.

Prof. Pankaj Tiwari

Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering E-mail: pankaj.tiwari@iitg.ac.in Phone: +91361-2582263 (O)

Research Interest: Conventional and unconventional energies, Reservoir Engineering, Complex organic solids, Biomass conversion, Pyrolysis process, Kinetic analysis.

Prof. Mrinal Kanti Dutta

Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences E-mail: mkdutta@iitg.ac.in Phone: +91361-2582558 (O)

Research Interest: Agricultural Economics, Environmental Economics, Regional Economic Development.

Prof. Prabirkumar Saha

Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering E-mail: p.saha@iitg.ac.in Phone: +91361-2582257 (O)

Research Interest: Process Modelling, Optimization and control, Membrane Based separation Process.

Prof. Mohammed Jawed

Professor, Department of Civil Engineering E-mail: jawed@iitg.ac.in Phone: +91361-2582406 (O)

Research Interest: Surface and Groundwater Treatment *Domestic and Industrial Wastewater Treatment *Biological Processes *Heavy Metal Removal *Water Treatment and Supply *Wastewater Treatment and Disposal.

Prof. Ramagopal V. S. Uppaluri

Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering E-mail: ramgopalu@iitg.ac.in Phone: +91361-2582260 (O)

Research Interest: Process Engineering – Solar pumps Process-product engineering – Refractance Window drying, Ultrasound-assisted extraction, Chitosan derivatives, Bio-fertilizer, Value-added and Low-cost food and functional food products, Adsorptive wastewater treatment; Product Design – Ayurvedic and Horticultural products, Amine impregnated zeolites, Bi-metallic catalysts, Waste to value products; Computational – Machine learning based solid waste management; Indian knowledge systems – Holistic Medicine, Vedanta and Science, Consciousness studies

Prof. Pranab K. Ghosh

Professor, Department of Civil Engineering E-mail: pkghosh@iitg.ac.in Phone: +91361-2582418 (O)

Research Interest: Water and wastewater treatment by (1) Biological Process using mixed bacterial culture, and (2) Adsorption. Specific area of research: (1) Sulfate bioreduction to elemental sulfur (2) Biological treatment of sulfate and metal rich low pH industrial wastewater (3) Arsenic removal from drinking water by biological process

Prof. Sanjukta Patra

Professor, Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering E-mail: sanjukta@iitg.ac.in Phone: +91361-2582213 (O)

Research Interest: Enzyme Applications, Biotransformation, Biosensors.

Prof. Ranjan Tamuli

Professor, Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering E-mail: ranjantamuli@iitg.ac.in Phone: +91361-2582220 (O)

Research Interest: Calcium signaling, Genetics, DNA repair

Prof. S. Senthilkumar

Professor, Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering E-mail: senthilkumar@iitg.ac.in Phone: +91361-2582226 (O)

Research Interest: Biocalorimetry, BioPAT, Real-time monitoring and control of bioprocess systems

Prof. Sachin Kumar

Professor, Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering E-mail: sachinku@iitg.ac.in Phone: +91361-2582229 (O)

Research Interest: Molecular biology of paramyxoviruses.

Prof. Subashisa Dutta

Professor, Department of Civil Engineering E-mail: subashisa@iitg.ac.in Phone: +91361-2582415 (O)

Research Interest: Satellite Remote Sensing and GIS for Water resources Management, Computational river hydraulics and its applications,Watershed and Irrigation Management

Prof. Sandip Paul

Professor, Department of Chemistry E-mail: sandipp@iitg.ac.in Phone: +91361-2582321 (O)

Research Interest: Computational Biophysics and Chemistry.

Prof. Subrata K. Majumdar

Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering E-mail: skmaju@iitg.ac.in Phone: +91361-2582265 (O)

Research Interest: Applied multiphase flow process system, Process intensifications in Chemical and environmental Processes, Micro-nanobubble technology and its applications in wastewater treatment, and enhanced oil recovery, Mineral and coal beneficiation by flotation and extraction, Fluidization and its application.