Webinar On "Deep Eutectic Solvents for Environmental Remediation and Energy Storage" 29-30 July,2020 Indian Institute Of Technology Guwahati, Assam, India

Dr. Tamal Banerjee

Dr. Banerjee earned his Doctorate degree from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in the year 2006. Subsequently, he joined the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati and is currently a Full Professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering from 2017. He has published over 120 papers in reputed peer reviewed Journals. In 2011, he was awarded the Indo-US Fellowship in Engineering Sciences. He has also authored two books each in CRC Press and Elsevier which discusses experiments and molecular modelling aspect of Ionic Liquids as an extractive agent. Prof. Banerjee’s research focuses on the use of Ionic Liquids and Deep Eutectic Solvents as green solvents concerning both energy generation and environment mitigation. Recently his group have started evaluating Deep Eutectic Solvents as potential electrolytes and thermal fluids for supercapacitors and solar desalination respectively. He has also initiated thermodynamic pathways using biocompatible gels comprising of Polysaccharide or DES based precursors for drug delivery.

Dr. Pallab Ghosh

Dr. Pallab Ghosh is a Professor at IIT Guwahati and works in applications of colloids and interfaces in large-scale industrial undertakings such as petroleum recovery, manufacture of heavy chemicals and coating processes.

Dr. Ramesh Laxminarayan Gardas

Dr Ramesh Laxminarayan Gardas is Professor in Chemistry at Indian Institute of Technology Madras. His research group focusses on ‘Chemical Thermodynamics’ and ‘Phase Equilibria’ of industrially important solvents and their mixtures. This group, is unique in the country, focusses on both ‘Science’ and ‘Technology’ part of contemporary field – “Ionic Liquids/ Deep Eutectic Solvents as alternative to Volatile Organic Solvents” and significantly contributing in connecting them. Group has substantially contributed to the development of non-conventional and environmentally benign solvent systems and generated extensive databases on their thermodynamic properties and structure-composition-property correlations useful in refrigeration, separation science and crude oil industry. These will have far reaching implications in the design of application-specific solvent systems.His research group strives to design the task-specific ionic liquids and to provide an important insight into physical chemistry to regulate their properties for varied technological applications such as phase change materials, CO2 capturing, dissolution of tank bottom sludge, electrolytes in solar cell and super capacitors, absorbents for refrigeration system, desulfurization of fuels, and also extraction of metal ions, biomolecules and value-added products.

Dr. Gardas has more than 20-years of research and 10-years of teaching experience. So far, he completed 8 projects (as PI and Co-PI), guided 10 Ph.D. and 15 M.Sc. project students. Co-authored 4 patents, 4 book-chapters and 165 research publications which received more than 5900 citations with h-index = 37. He delivered more than 120 invited talks and guest lectures.

Dr. Archana Barua

Dr. Archana Barua is a Professor at IIT Guwahati. Her research interests lie in area such as Phenomenology and Continental Philosophy,Philosophy of Value: Ethics and Aesthetics, Feminist Philosophy, Indian Philosophy, Gandhian Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion. Her special expertise lies in Philosophy of Culture and religions of North East India with special research interest in the Vaishnavism of the Medieval Bhakta Saints and Mahapurush Sankaradeva.

Dr. Luis C. Branco

Dr. Luis C. Branco is graduated in Chemistry from University of Lisbon (1998) and then he received in 2006 his PhD in Organic and Sustainable Chemistry (FCT-NOVA). He is currently Principal Researcher and Invited Professor at the FCT-NOVA and his research interest are mainly focused in the development of Sustainable Chemical Processes and Applied Functional Materials including Task-specific Ionic Liquids and Deep Eutectic Solvents.

Dr. Isabel M. Marrucho

Dr. Isabel M. Marrucho obtained her PhD in Chemical Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico (Portugal)/Colorado School of Mines (USA), in 1997. She is currently Associate Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico of Universidade de Lisboa and her research interests are centered on Green and Sustainable Chemistry, in particular the study of ionic liquids and deep eutectic solvents and their applications to develop more efficient separation processes.

Dr. Mert Atilhan

Dr. Mert Atilhan has been active in the fields of applied and computational thermodynamics (DFT and MD) with the emphasis on development of novel materials for energy and environmental related fields. His research activities focuses on the development of high-stability and high-capacity novel gas storage sorbents, acid/sour gas capture through novel solvents and applications of deep eutectic solvents as eco-friendly and sustainable alternative novel solvents for various applications. Prof. Atilhan has authored >180 peer reviewed publications. He was honored with “Research Award” three times in 2008, 2011, 2016, “Teaching Award” in 2016 and “Elsevier-Scopus Best Researcher of the Year Award” in 2015. Prof. Atilhan is an Editor for Molecules journal.

Dr. Bernardo Dias Ribeiro Graduated at Chemical Engineering from UFRJ (2005) and obtained Master and Doctorate Degrees at Chemical and Biochemical Processes from UFRJ (2008 and 2012). Nowadays, he is Professor at Biochemical Engineering Department in UFRJ, and since 11/2018, is Visiting Researcher at IST from Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal). Has experience in Clean Technologies, focusing on Enzymatic Processes, Natural Products Valorization and Neoteric Solvents such as ionic liquids and eutectic solvents.

Dr. Mara G. Freire

Dr. Mara G. Freire graduated in Chemistry in 2003 by University of Aveiro, Portugal, receiving the “Best Chemistry Student Award” from Dow Portugal. By the end of 2007 she completed her PhD in Chemical Engineering by University of Aveiro, having during her PhD studies trainees at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and Claude Bernard University, Lyon, France, followed by post-doctoral activities at ITQB2, New University of Lisbon, Portugal. In 2012, Freire was an invited professor at Tiradentes University, Sergipe, Brazil. From June 2013 to January 2014, Freire was an Assistant Researcher at CICECO - Aveiro Institute of Materials, Chemistry Department, University of Aveiro, Portugal, and since February 2014 she is a Coordinator Researcher at the same institution. Currently, Mara Freire is the Coordinator of Group 5 of CICECO, Biomedical and Biomimetic Materials, and member of the Cooperation and Scientific Dissemination Committee of the Chemistry Department at University of Aveiro. Since January 2017 she is member of the Young Scientists Seminar of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences.