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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.

Achievements

Awards

Under BITS Pilani Affiliation

  1. “Legendary Icon of India Award 2025” For Chemical Engineering, 2025, KTK Outstanding Achievers and Education Foundation, New Delhi.
  2. Best poster award titled “An IoT-Enabled Composite Potentiometric Sensor Incorporating MgO-modified ShC and MWCNT for Lead Detection in Water”, Center for Research Excellence in Semiconductor Technologies (CREST) workshop on Academia-Industry Synergy in Semiconductor Advancements, 2024, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus. (Student award)
  3. 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)
  4. Bharat Gaurav Puraskar, 2024, KTK Outstanding Achievers and Education Foundation, New Delhi.
  5. Faculty Excellence Award, 2023, Alumni Association, Heritage Institute of Technology, Kolkata.
  6. IEI Young Engineers Award, 2022, Chemical Engineering Division, by Institution of Engineers, (India)
  7. Best poster award titled “Tetramethylthiuram Disulfide and Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes based Composite Electrode Material for Lead Detection in Water”, Engineers Day, Chemical Engineering Department, BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus. (Student award)
  8. First Prize in Paper Titled “Application of Composite Polymeric Beads for Waterborne Contaminant Removal”, in InDaCon, MNIT Jaipur, 2021. (Jointly with PhD student)
  9. Gold Category Award for Online Case Study Presentation in Water Treatment, in CII MILCA Award, 2020.

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. "Pat on Back Award" by GE-IDC, Tech Mahindra, Hyderabad, for outstanding client presentation on lead detection and water softening, 2018.
  4. "Mahindra Electric Environ-Rise Award" for best product innovation (defluoridating agent), 2017.
  5. "Second prize winner in Research Scholar’s Day" for oral presentation held at the Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Kharagpur, for the year 2016.
  6. "Second and Third prize winner in Research Scholar’s Day" for poster competition held at the Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Kharagpur for the years 2013 and 2015, respectively.

Nominations

Under BITS Pilani Affiliation

  1. Institute (BITS Pilani) representative to attend “BIS-Manak Pravardhak Programme” by Bureau of Indian Standards, 2024.
  2. Institute (BITS Pilani) representative to attend INSA-ACS Faculty Leadership Summit, INSA, New Delhi, 2024.

Journal editor and invited reviewer

Under BITS Pilani Affiliation

  1. Journal Editor- Materials Today Proceedings- International Conference on Nanotechnology for Sustainable Living and Environment (ICON NSLE-2022)
  2. Invited Reviewer: Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering; Journal of Food Science and Technology; Bulletin of Material Science; Journal of Cleaner Production.

Others

Under BITS Pilani Affiliation

  1. Top downloaded article: Journal of Food Science, A review on pectinase properties, application in juice clarification, and membranes as immobilization support, among works published in an issue between 1 January 2022 and 31 December 2022.
    Under IIT Kharagpur
  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 the EU-India STI cooperation and innovation council, NGRI, Hyderabad, 2012.

Under Heritage Institute of Technology Affiliation

  1. "Certificate of Achievement" by National Entrepreneurship Network, Heritage Institute of Technology, Kolkata, 2010.