Dr. Prasenjit Mondal, is presently working as Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India, since April 2014. He joined the institute in 2009 as Assistant Professor. He has also worked as Process Engineer in industry for two years; as scientist in Centre for Scientific and Industrial Research, India for three years before joining.
His area of research is Energy and Environmental Engineering (Water /wastewater treatment microbial fuel cells, oil from algae, energy from coal, biomass and waste plastics, life cycle assessment). He has handled number of R&D projects sponsored by Industry, Govt. of India and International Agencies. He has completed two international projects under Australia India Strategic Research Fund and Indo-France Water Network Scheme. He has published two books and more than 150 papers in international journals and conference proceedings and filed one Indian patent on the development of low cost water treatment system for rural communities.
He is the recipient of NTSE scholarship, MHRD fellowship, Govt. of India and S.J. Jindal Trust’s scholarship, 3 year membership award of American Chemical Society. He was appointed as Visiting Professor, Univ. of Saskatchewan Canada in 2018. He is a reviewer for several international journals. He is a life member of the Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers.