Pranjal Kalita
Central Institute of Technology-Kokrajhar, India
Biography
Pranjal Kalita is working as Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Central Institute of Technology (CIT), Kokrajhar, Assam, India. His research areas are heterogeneous catalysts, pyrolysis, alternative fuels and chemicals. He has obtained his PhD at National Chemical Laboratory, Pune (India) in 2008. Prior to joining CIT, TERI, he has spent professional time in TERI, New Delhi and a five years of postdoctoral research including National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Japan; Iowa State University & Georgia Institute of Technology, USA. Currently, he is devoting his time in the utilization of biomass as heterogeneous catalyst and porous heterogeneous catalyst for synthesis of chemical intermediate and value-added products.