Diganta Bhusan Das

Dr Diganta Bhusan Das was born in a family of academics in the beautiful state of Assam in North-East of India. He holds a personal title 'Reader in Porous Media' in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Loughborough University, UK. He has academic work experience at the University of Oxford (UK), Technical University of Delft (the Netherlands), and many other places in Europe, USA and Asia. Dr Das is currently the Deputy Lead for the Research Challenge on Changing Environment and Infrastructure at Loughborough, and the Deputy Director of Doctoral Research Programme in the School of Aeronautical, Automotive, Chemical and Materials Engineering at Loughborough University. He has taught a variety of Chemical Engineering courses relating to environmental pollution control, water engineering, fluid mechanics, reaction engineering, mass transfer processes and drug delivery processes.

Dr Das is a keen collaborator and team builder on a range of multidisciplinary porous medium topics such as (i) coupled free and porous flow (e.g., leakage in fluid distribution pipes, membrane separation), (ii) two-phase flow in porous media, (iii) membrane water treatment, (iv) chemical transport in porous tissues and tissue engineering bioreactors, (v) CO2 capture, sequestration and utilisation, and others. He has successfully mentored seven postdoctoral and twenty-two PhD researchers to completion. He has authored/co-authored >115 peer reviewed journal publications besides co-authoring/co-editing seven books (including a two-volume book on environmental health).

Dr Das' full publication list may be viewed at: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=wvlGZ0IAAAAJ&hl=en

Dr Das sits on the Engineering Panel for the Newton Fund administered by the British Council, UK, and he was the Founding Secretary, Vice-Chair elect and Chair of International Water Association’s specialist group on Multiphase Flow and Transport in Porous Media. Additionally, he has served as an editor and associate editor of the journals Water Science and Technology and Water Supply (IWA Publisher) since 2007. He is also a member of editorial board of three other journals (Biotechnology Letters, Clean Technologies, Pharmaceutics).