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Research Interests

  •  Bioremediation of environmental pollutants

  •  Industrial microbial enzymes

  •  Biomass conversion to bioethanol and other value-added products

  •  Biobased polymer production and applications

  •  Resource recovery, wastewater treatment

  •  Biopolymer based hydrogel

  •  Bioadsorption for removal of environmental pollutants

  •  Soil nutrient quality

  •  Removal of micropollutants using nanomaterials

  •   Water quality (BOD, COD, TDS, Conductivity, DO, oxoanions, heavy and trace metals)

  •   and wastewater treatment technologies

Research & Development activities

  • PhD supervised: 04 (01 completed and 03 ongoing)

  • Summer interns (undergraduate, postgraduates) supervised: around 14

  • Consultancy/ research projects: 05

  • National conferences organized: 06 (in the capacity of convener during the year 2015-2021)

  • Training/workshops organized: CPCB training (03)

  • Coordinator, CPCB sponsored workshop on "Polluted river stretches-preparation of action plan (for NE states)"

  • Regional coordinator: Remote sensing & GIS online training courses conducted by IIRS, Dehradun

  • Editor, Book on Sustainable environment, Proceedings of NERC 2022, ISBN:978-981-19-8463-1

  • Selected as a Jury member in judges panel by CBSE, New Delhi for Regional Science Exhibition 2022-23, NE Chapter held on 19-20 Dec, 2022 in Miles Bronson Residential School, Ghy.

Publications

  • 21 International Publications

  • 01 Book 

  • 01 Book Chapter

  • ~20 International Conferences

Co guide to the following students

Completed

Dr. Jayakrishnan U (156152005)) Topic: Novel bioprocessing strategy for polyhydroxybutyrate production from agro-industrial effluents: A waste biorefinery approach; Co-guiding with Prof. Gopal Das

Ongoing

  1. Mr. Gunanka Hazarika (206152003)

  2. Ms. Debolina Ghosh (206152002)

  3. Ms. Neha Gautam (216152006)

Google Scholar link: https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=VWIZV54AAAAJ&hl=en

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