Prof Banerjee has completed her PhD in Microbial Biotechnology from the Chemical Engineering Department at IIT Kharagpur.
Prof Rintu Banerjee has been appointed as the deputy director of the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. Prof Banerjee, as per a statement, is the first woman to take over the charge of this position. With a career spanning various important portfolios, she has made significant contributions in the field of biotechnology.
Prof Banerjee is the founder head and is presently the chairperson of P K Sinha Centre for Bioenergy and Renewables. She has also served as the Head of the Centre for Rural Development, Innovative and Sustainable Technology and Head of the Department of Agricultural & Food Engineering at IIT Kharagpur for three years.
In her career span, as per IIT-K, Banerjee has held many important portfolios including Chairperson of Centre of Excellence in Precision Agriculture & Food Nutrition; Nodal Coordinator for Australia and New Zealand for SPARC & Coordinator for RuTAG.
Prof Banerjee has completed her PhD in Microbial Biotechnology from the Chemical Engineering Department at IIT Kharagpur. From the beginning of her career, she was engaged in industry-academy collaborative research activities. As an outcome of her research, she has transferred several technologies to different industries and has many national/international patents to her credit.
Recently, she successfully transferred her 1G & 2G Ethanol technology to the industry for commercialisation, as per IIT-K.
Further, she has published two books on environmental biotechnology and OMICS-based approaches in Plant Biotechnology. Besides that, she has handled several government/private/industry-sponsored projects that include TBT, DST, ICAR, UAI, ICMR, IMPRINT, SPARC, SERB and many other multinational industries.
She has visited several countries as a visiting professor and for scientific collaborations including Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Finland, Egypt, Australia, the US, Taiwan, Japan, the UK, South Korea, Laos, Thailand, Dubai, Doha, Brazil, Canada, Malaysia.
- List of awards awarded to Prof Banerjee
- Panjabrao Deshmukh Award for Outstanding Women Scientist from ICAR
- Best Woman Bioscientist form Biotech Research Society of India
- Young Scientist Award’ 94 from the Association for Food Scientists and Technologists (India)
- Dr Prem Dureja Endowment;
- Institute Chair Professor from IIT Kharagpur;
- Louis Pasteur Award;
- Madan Mohan Malviya Award
- Rafi Ahmed Kidwai Award.
She has also received the Most Inspiring Women Engineer/Scientist for the year 2014, for the exemplary work in the field of Science & Technology by Engineering Watch, New Delhi and has more than 12000+ citations under her name.
Prof Rintu Banerjee said, “As the Deputy Director of the largest IIT of the country, my intent is to fastrack the economic progress of the country through innovative solutions provided by IIT Kharagpur along with uplifting the institute’s ranking both on national and international levels. With industry 4.0 and digitronics making inroads using smart technology for ongoing automation of traditional industrial practices, the institution should boost its performance indicators to suit best in industry collaborations and indulges to develop strong policy mission programme with the government that sensitize people to ‘Make in India & Make for the World.”
