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Dr. Mukesh Sharma

 
Professor
Department of Civil Engineering

WEBSITE link:
http://www.iitk.ac.in/ce/CIVIL/faculty/mukesh/mukesh.htm

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
  • Environmental Health and Risk Assessment
  • Air Quality Modeling and Management
  • Fate Processes of Organic Pollutants
  • Control Technologies for Volatile Organic Compounds

 
   

Dr. Sidhartha Panda

 

Associate Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering

WEBSITE link:
http://www.iitk.ac.in/che/spanda.htm

 

 
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
  • Chemical Sensors: Our research group focuses of the research and development of chemical sensors
  • Utilizing semiconducting materials (conducting polymer and silicon) based devices
  • For environmental and healthcare applications

 
   

Dr. Deepak Kunzru

 
Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering

WEBSITE link:
http://www.iitk.ac.in/che/dk.htm

 

 
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
  • Microstructured reactors
  • Catalytic and chemical reaction engineering
  • Pyrolysis of hydrocarbons
  • Petroleum processing

 
   

Dr. Tarun Gupta

 
Assistant Professor
Department of Civil Engineering

WEBSITE link:
http://www.iitk.ac.in/ce/CIVIL/faculty/tarun/tarun.htm

 

 
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
  • Development of instruments for aerosol measurement
  • Engineering control of particles in ambient and indoor settings
  • Physico-chemical characterization of atmospheric pollutants
  • Personal exposure assessment and health effects of inhaled particles

 
   

Dr. S. N. Tripathi

 
Associate Professor
Department of Civil Engineering

WEBSITE link:
http://home.iitk.ac.in/~snt/

 
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
  • Laboratory simulation of fog life cycle
  • Weather modification and cloud seeding
  • Direct and Indirect effects of aerosols

 
   

Dr. Nishith Verma

 
Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering

WEBSITE link:
http://www.iitk.ac.in/che/nv.htm

 
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
  • Adsorption
  • Development of novel adsorbents for aqueous system
  • Development of filters in particulate control

 
   

Dr. Ashok Kumar

 
Associate Professor
Department of Biological Sciences and Bio-engineering

WEBSITE link:
http://www.iitk.ac.in/bsbe/Ashok.html

 
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
  • Design and development of polymeric materials and macroporous membranes and filters for environmental biotechnology and health
  • Monitoring and removal of environmental endocrine disruptors using molecular imprinted polymers
  • Bioremediation of industrial effluents using genetically engineered microorganisms
  • Biofuel production using immobilized microbial systems

 
   

Dr. Arnab Bhattacharya

 
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering

WEBSITE link:
http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/users/arnabb/

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
  • Sensor networks
  • Interests in data mining

 
   

Dr. Ashutosh Sharma

 
Professor
Department of Chemical and Engineering

WEBSITE link:
http://www.iitk.ac.in:80/che/as.htm

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
  • Synthesis of catalytic filtration media for air, water and industrial pollution control
  • Carbon MEMS as energy and biological platforms
  • Metal nanoparticles and organic-inorganic frameworks
  • Membrane separations
  • Biomimitic green adhesives

 
   

Dr. Shantanu Bhattacharya

 
Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering

WEBSITE link:
http://home.iitk.ac.in/~bhattacs/

RESEARCH INTERESTS in Environmental Science and Engineering:
  • BioMEMS
  • Microfluidic Systems for pathogen Sensing and detection
  • Nanotechnology approaches for sensitive molecular identification

 
   

Dr. Jayant K. Singh

 
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering

WEBSITE link:
http://www.iitk.ac.in/che/jks.htm

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
  • Adsorption in porous material
  • Functional surfaces for sensor applications
  • Removal of contaminants from aqueous systems

 
   

Dr. Avinash Kumar Agarwal

 
Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering

WEBSITE link:
http://www.iitk.ac.in/erl

RESEARCH INTERESTS in Environmental Science and Engineering:

Alternative Fuels, Biodiesel Development and Characterization, Utilization of Straight Vegetable Oils, Field Trial Investigations of Alternative Fuels, Automotive Emissions and Control, Particulate Characterization and Control, Non-Regulated Emissions, Optical Techniques for engine to understand Pollutant formation, Non-Conventional Sources of Energy

 
   

Dr. PK Bhattacharya

 
Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering

WEBSITE link:
http://www.iitk.ac.in/che/pkb.htm

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Industrial effluents and waste-water teatments through membrane processes

 
   

Dr. Nalini Sankararamakrishnan

 
Research Scientist - Gr I
Center for Environmental Sciences and Engineering

WEBSITE link:
http://www.iitk.ac.in/cese/nalini/

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

• Treatment of Industrial Effluents
• Development of novel adsorbents for arsenic removal from drinking water
• Mechanism of arsenic mobilization in Indo-Gangetic Plains


 
   

 



 

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Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Kanpur 208016, India

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