Speaker

Prof. Pralay Maiti

Biography :

Dr. Pralay Maiti is currently a senior professor and ex-coordinator in the School of Materials Science and Technology, IIT (BHU), Varanasi. Prof. Maiti has received his Master in Chemistry from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in 1991 and Ph.D. in Polymer in 1996 from The Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (Jadavpur University). He was COE Researcher and Lecturer at Venture Business Laboratory, Hiroshima University, Japan (1997-1999) and was post-doctoral fellow at Toyota Technological Institute, Japan (1999-2001). He was Visiting Scientist at Cornell University, USA from 2002 to 2004. His current research interests include drug delivery vehicle, biomaterials and energy materials. Most innovative contribution of Prof. Maiti is in the field of materials chemistry related to drug delivery using biodegradable polymers, self-assembly and energy materials through nanotechnology and their uses in energy sector. He has published more than 270 papers in high impact journals, 39 patents (few of them are commercialized) and 34 book chapters and h-index of 61 and his citation is more than 18,000.