Faculty
Head of Department
Sameer V. Dalvi
Smt. Meera and Prof. Girish K. Sharma Chair Professor
Research Interests: Engineering stable microbubbles formulations for biomedical applications, Precipitation and stabilization of nnanoparticles in aqueous suspensions, Supercritical fluid processing
Abinaya Sampath
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalysis, Raman spectroscopy, Mass spectroscopy, In-situ and operando spectroscopy, Electrochemistry, oxidation
Biswajit Saha
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: 2D/nanomaterial synthesis and analysis, Development of wearable sensors and detection of physiological signal, Detection of pathogen pathogens (bacteria) and chemicals in aqueous media, Real-time monitoring of fruit growth and irrigation for smart-farming, Water filtration
Chinmay Ghoroi
B. S. Gelot Chair Professor
Research Interests: Particle Engineering, Cohesive Powders, Surface Engineering, Wetting and Antibacterial Surfaces/ Bacterial Adhesion, Drug Formulation, Nano-materials for Drug Delivery/ Controlled Release, Solid-phase Reactions for Functional Materials, Water Treatment
Hari Ganesh
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Modeling and Simulation, Process Control and Optimization, Energy and Environment, Data Science
Kabeer Jasuja
Dr. Dinesh O Shah Chair Associate Professor
Research Interests: Exfoliation of layered metal borides, Synthesis of boron based nanosheets analogous to graphene, Fundamental science at the interface of nanosheets, Designing novel nano composites, Nanomaterials for energy storage
Karthik Subramaniam Pushpavanam
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Synthetic Biology, Nanomaterials, Sensors
Kaustubh Rane
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Interfacial phenomena at solid-fluid and fluid-fluid interfaces, Thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, Molecular simulations
Mithun Radhakrishna
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Protein aggregation, Chaperone mediated protein folding, Polymer coacervation, Molecular simulations
Nitin Padhiyar
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Process optimization and control, Multi-objective optimization (MOO), Genetic algorithms, Dynamic optimization, Model predictive control (MPC), MOO based MPC
Prachi Thareja
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Viscoelastic properties of particles in liquid crystals and applications, Liquid crystal sensors, Interfacial engineering of soft materials, Anti infective surface
Pratyush Dayal
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Self-oscillating polymer gels, Structure development in polymer blends and solutions, Polymer processing
Sameer Patel
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Aerosol and air quality, Air pollution control, Low-cost air quality monitors