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Dr. Somak Chatterjee

Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus

Room 1216-M, Faculty Division I,
Department of Chemical Engineering,
Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani- 333031, Rajasthan. India.

Acheivements

Awards

Under BITS-Pilani Affiliation

  1. Second runner up position in "Water Pollution Management" at Pollution Hack, Ideation Hackathon 2.0, organized by Rajasthan State Pollution Control Board, LNM Institute of Information Technology (LNMIIT), Jaipur and JSW Cement Ltd, Nagaur 2024. (Startup student award)
  2. Bharat Gaurav Puraskar, 2024, KTK Outstanding Achievers and Education Foundation, New Delhi.
  3. Faculty Excellence Award, 2023, Alumni Association, Heritage Institute of Technology, Kolkata.
  4. IEI Young Engineers Award, 2021-22, Chemical Engineering Division, by Institution of Engineers, (India) 
  5. First Prize in Paper Titled “Application of Composite Polymeric Beads for Waterborne Contaminant Removal”, in InDaCon, MNIT Jaipur, 2021 (Jointly with PhD student)
  6. Gold Category Award for Online Case Study Presentation in Water Treatment, in CII MILCA Award, 2020 (Jointly with PhD student)

Under GE-TECH M Affiliation

  1. "Pat on Back Award" by GE-IDC, Tech Mahindra, Hyderabad, for outstanding client presentation on lead detection and water softening, 2018.

Under IIT Kharagpur Affiliation

  1. Top three shortlisted in SERB-IGCW award for “Fluoride removal from groundwater using chemically amended naturally available materials”, 2019
  2. IIGP 2.0 by DST-Lockheed Martin and TATA Trust-"University Challenge Award" for indigenous low-cost fluoride filters, 2018.
  3. "Mahindra Electric Environ-Rise Award" for best product innovation (defluoridating agent), 2017.
  4. "Second prize winner in Research Scholar’s Day" for oral presentation held at Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Kharagpur for the year 2016.
  5. "Second and Third prize winner in Research Scholar’s Day" for poster competition held at Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Kharagpur for the year 2013 and 2015, respectively.

Honors

Under BITS-Pilani Affiliation

  1. Invited Talk on “Functional materials for Water Purification”, International Conference on Separation and Purification Technology, IIT Patna, Bihta, Bihar, 2023.
  2. Invited lecture on “Functional materials for Varied Application”, GESET-2023, Raj Kumar Goel Institute of Technology, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India, 2023.
  3. Invited lecture on " Understanding Materials Through Thermal Analysis", WAICEE, BITS Pilani, 2023.
  4. Invited lecture on "Functional materials for Varied Application", IIT Ropar, Ropar, Punjab, 2023.
  5. Invited Talk on "MATLAB for Chemical Engineers" at Equilibrio-Technical Festival, Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya, 2022
  6. Invited Talk on "Alumni Association of Heritage Institute of Technology", 2021
  7. Invited lecture on "Domestic and Industrial Water and Wastewater Treatment", during online faculty development programme organized by BVRIT, Hyderabad, 2020.
  8. Invited lecture "Functional materials for water purification", BIO-Enve lecture series, Chemical Engineering Department, BITS Pilani, 2019.
  9. Invited lecture "Functional materials for water purification", Chemical Engineering Department, IIT Hyderabad, 2019.
  10. Journal Editor- Materials Today Proceedings- International Conference on Nanotechnology for Sustainable Living and Environment (ICON NSLE-2022)
  11. Invited reviewer-Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering; Journal of Food Science and Technology; Bulletin of Material Science; Journal of Cleaner Production, Polymer for Advanced Technologies, Separation and Purification Technology.

Under IIT Kharagpur Affiliation

  1. Invited lecture on “Separation methods involved in purification of water stream” at Ishan Vikas Programme (comprehensive programme to introduce school children from the North Eastern states to higher education institutes in India) for the consecutive years 2015 and 2016.
  2. Top 10 downloaded article in Environmental Science: Water Research and Technology, RSC, journal’s "2015 most downloaded collection" for published article "Adsorptive removal of arsenic from groundwater using a novel high flux polyacrylonitrile (PAN)- laterite mixed matrix ultrafiltration membrane", 2015.
  3. "Certificate of Achievement" by EU-India STI cooperation and innovation council, NGRI, Hyderabad, 2012.
  4. "Certificate of Achievement" by National Entrepreneurship Network, Heritage Institute of Technology, Kolkata, 2010.