Sarit Kumar Das Explained

Sarit Kumar Das
Birth Place:West Bengal
Residence:Roopnagar, Punjab, India
Nationality: Indian
Alma Mater:Jadavpur University
Sambalpur University
Known For:Heat transfer, Liquid Metal Heat Exchangers
Profession:Professor
Office1:Director at Indian Institute of Technology Ropar
Term Start1:April 2015[1]
Term End1:March 2021
Predecessor1:M K Surappa[2]
Successor1:Dr Rajeev Ahuja
Office2:Professor at Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Term Start2:1995
Term End2:2015(on lien)[3]

Sarit Kumar Das is an Institute professor of the department of mechanical engineering at IIT Madras.[3] He also held the position of Dean (Academic Research) at Indian Institute of Technology Madras. He was the Director at IIT Ropar.[4] His research varies from a wide range of Heat transfer applications like nanofluids, biological heat transfer microfluidics and nanoparticle mediated drug delivery in cancer cells.[5] He is an elected fellow of National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI)[6] and Indian National Academy of Engineering (FNAE).[3]

Education

He received his bachelor's degree and master's degrees from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India in 1984 and 1987 respectively. He defended his PhD in 1994, from the Sambalpur University, Odisha, India.[5] He joined as post-doc fellow at Helmut Schmidt University, Hamburg from 1994 to 1995.[3]

Work

Prof. Das joined as an assistant professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras in 1995. He was the group leader at Heat Transfer and Thermal Power Lab.[7] He is associated with Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Ropar as a professor.[4] He also serves as the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Micro/Nanoscale Transport[8]

Awards and honors

Selected bibliography

Books

Patents

Articles

Notes and References

  1. News: Chopra . Ritika . Government appoints directors to three IITs, keeps 'disputed' names out of appointment . The Economic Times . 17 April 2015.
  2. News: Ex-director of IIT-Ropar is new Anna University VC Chennai News – Times of India . The Times of India . en.
  3. Web site: Mechanical Engineering at IIT Madras » Dr. Sarit Kumar Das . IIT Madras.
  4. Web site: Director Indian Institute of Technology Ropar . www.iitrpr.ac.in . IIT Ropar.
  5. Web site: Prof. Sarit K. Das Indian Institute of Technology Ropar . www.iitrpr.ac.in . 8 July 2020.
  6. Web site: The National Academy of Sciences, India – Fellows . www.nasi.org.in . NASI . 8 July 2020 . 17 July 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150717020647/http://www.nasi.org.in/fellows.asp?RsFilter=D . dead .
  7. Web site: Das . Sarit Kumar . Heat Transfer and Thermal Power Lab . mech.iitm.ac.in.
  8. Web site: International Journal of Micro-Nano Scale Transport . www.multi-science.co.uk . 8 July 2020 . 12 July 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200712172058/http://www.multi-science.co.uk/ijmnst.htm . dead .
  9. Web site: Humboldt Network – Prof. Dr. Sarit Kumar Das . www.humboldt-foundation.de . Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung/Foundation . 8 July 2020.
  10. News: Smith . Madeline . New seed fund to address food, water, and agriculture in India . 8 July 2020 . MIT News . news.mit.edu . 9 May 2019.
  11. Web site: Thermodynamic balancing of combined heat and mass exchange devices . patents.google.com . US Patent Office . en . 24 June 2013.