Diganta Bhusan Das Senior Lecturer in Chemical Engineering Loughborough University Department of Chemical Engineering Loughborough LE11 3TU, UK Tel: +44 1509 222509; Fax: +44 1509 223923 Email: D.B.Das@lboro.ac.uk

Hello & Welcome! I am a Senior Lecturer in Chemical Engineering. I came back to Loughborough University as a Lecturer in August 2007. After my Bachelor of Engineering degree (Chemical Engineering) from Rajasthan University, India (1996), I completed my PhD (Chemical Engineering) at Loughborough in 2001. I was also a post-doctoral research fellow at Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands and a visiting fellow at Princeton University, US (2001-2003). Prior to joining Loughborough University, I was a Lecturer of Chemical Engineering at the University of Oxford (4/2003-7/2007). I have also held visiting appointments at Eindhoven University, the Netherlands and Texas Southern University, Houston, US (short term)

I am interested in the principles of fluid flow and mass transport behaviour in porous media (both biological and non-biological) which I apply to Water and Bio- Engineering problems. I have been developing mathematical models for flow in coupled fluid and porous layers and, upscaling dynamic two-phase flow behaviour in porous media. I am also interested in Permeable Reactive Barrier - a type of chemical reactor which can be inserted in the subsurface to treat contaminated ground water. My current work on bio-engineering relates to artificial bone tissue growth using bioreactors, degeneration of intervertreval disc (which causes back pain in humans) and, drug delivery in skin tissue and intervertreval disc. I carry out both experimental and theoretical studies and some interesting results are on their way.

See my Curriculum Vitae for my background and additional information.

Research Group Newsletters

1. Conference: 7th Annual Industrial Simulation Conference, Quality Hotel, Loughborough, June 1-3, 2009

2. Journal Special Issue (SI): A Special Issue of 'Asia-Pacific Journal of Chemical Engineering' on Tissue Engineering. The journal SI was published in September 2011. It was guest edited by Dr DB Das and Prof T Liu

3. A New Book on the Theory and Practice of Solid Waste Management co-authored by R Chandrappa and DB Das has been published in August 2012 by Springer Verlag

Opportunities for PhD Students:

If you are interested in discussing any opportunity or have question(s) please contact me at D.B.Das@lboro.ac.uk