Engineering Nanoparticles for Biomedical Applications

Sulalit Bandyopadhyay is currently employed as an Associate Professor within Particle Engineering and Hydrometallurgy at the Department of Chemical Engineering, NTNU. He is also employed as a Researcher at the Department of Water Management, TU Delft, Netherlands and serving as the CTO of a diagnostic company Lybe Scientific A/S. He is currently the Centre Manager for the recently established Particle Engineering Research Centre. During 2018 - 2021, he worked as a Post Doctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Chemical Engineering, NTNU and Department of Water Management, TU Delft. He also worked as a Polymer Scientist in Jotun Antifouling for a short stint. He graduated with a B.E (Hons) in Chemical Engineering from Jadavpur University, India and was thereafter awarded the Erasmus Mundus Fellowship to do his MSc in Chemical Research Fellow at the Department of Chemical Engineering, NTNU and ETH Zurich. His current contribution to the development of NTNU's innovative Corona test method in 2020 enabled the use of the technology for easing the burden of the pandemic. Recipient of JBNSTS 2006, DAAD 2009, his research interests include synthesis, characterization and functionalization of NPs, development of NP based hydrological tracers, drug delivery and modelling of nanosystems, recycling of Lithium-ion batteries.