Faculty Committee

Himanshu Sharma

Assistant Professor

(Convener)

Areas of Interest: Flow through porous media, Enhanced oil recovery, Colloids & interfaces, Nanotechnology

Email: sharmah@iitk.ac.in

Website: https://www.iitk.ac.in/che/hsharma.htm

Office: Faculty Building 456 | Phone: +91-512-259-2073

Soumik Das

Assistant Professor

Areas of Interest: Wettability alteration, Surfactants, Composites, Molecular assembly and synthesis in structured solvents, Liquid crystals, Solitons in liquid crystals, Soliton-based chemical soft matter

Email: dsoumik@iitk.ac.in

Website: https://www.iitk.ac.in/che/sdas.htm

Office: 604, ESB-III (Office) | Phone: +91-512-679-2385 Lab 1: 614, ESB-III (Lab)

Raghavendra Ragipani

Assistant Professor

Areas of Interest: Carbon dioxide capture and mineralization, Resource recovery and solid waste utilization, Sustainable process engineering.

Email: ragipani@iitk.ac.in

Website: https://www.iitk.ac.in/che/ragipani.htm

Office: NL-II-106 (Office) | Phone: +91-512-259-2241 Lab: NL-II-106 (Lab) | Phone: +91-512-259-2241

Raju Kumar Gupta

Professor

Areas of Interest: Photocatalysis, Green synthesis of nanomaterials, Surface chemistry, High dielectric constant materials, Perovskite solar cells, Supercapacitors, Electrospinning of functional polymers and nanocomposites for environmental and energy applications.

Email: guptark@iitk.ac.in

Website: https://www.iitk.ac.in/che/rkg.htm

Office: Faculty Building 486 (Office) | Phone: +91-512-679-6972

Rahul Mangal

Associate Professor

Areas of Interest: Polymer physics, Colloids, Complex fluids, Nanocomposites, Active matter, Liquid crystals, Soft Matter.

Email: mangalr@iitk.ac.in

Website: https://www.iitk.ac.in/che/rahul-mangal.htm

Office: Faculty Building 451 | Phone: +91-512-259-2002 Lab: NL-II-307 | Phone: +91-512-259-6373

Nitin Kaistha

Professor and Head

Areas of Interest: Process Engineering and Design, Plantwide Control, Process Intensification.

Email: nkaistha@iitk.ac.in

Website: https://www.iitk.ac.in/che/nk.htm

Office: Faculty Building 468 (Office) | Phone: +91-512-679-7513