Pratim Biswas

Pratim Biswas is currently the Stevenson Endowed Chair Professor of Engineering at Vanderbilt University. He is also the executive director for the Institute for Engineering Innovation to be set up at West Palm Beach, FL. Prior to this, he was the dean of Engineering of University of Miami, from January 2021. He was the Lucy and Stanley Lopata Professor of Environmental Engineering Science, asst. vice chancellor for International Programs, and chair of the Department of Energy, Environmental and Chemical Engineering at the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis. He was also director of MAGEEP, the McDonnell Academy Global Energy and Environmental Partnership. He received his doctoral degree from the California Institute of Technology in 1985, and his bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Bombay in 1980.

He has graduated and advised 65 PhD students, and with them published more than 500 refereed journal articles. He has over 44,000 citations. He has an H-index score of 106 (which measures quality and quantity of scientific output) - putting him in the top 5 percent in his field for his career stage.

A key area of his work is related to Aerosol Science and Technology, wtih application of his work in Nanoparticle Technology, Air Quality and Pollution Control, and in the Energy and Environmental technology arena.

At Washington University he has assembled a strong group of aerosol researchers who collectively work on a range of topics in aerosol science and engineering. These faculty work in areas of aerosol science and technology ranging from particle formation, growth, transport, measurement, control and applications. From 2006 to 2007 he was a president of the American Association for Aerosol Research. Biswas was the president of the International Aerosol Research Assembly, from 2018 to 2022.

He was the dean, College of Engineering, University of Miami; and professor in the Department of Chemical, Environmental and Materials Engineering and Atmospheric Sciences (Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences).

Currently, he is the Stevenson Endowed Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Vanderbilt University.

Major awards Kenneth Whitby Award from the American Association for Aerosol Research, 1991 Distinguished Alumni Award, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, 2011 Distinguished Faculty Award, Washington University in St. Louis, 2012 David Sinclair Award, American Association for Aerosol Research, 2013 International Aerosol Research Assembly (IARA) Fellow Award, 2014 Lawrence K. Cecil Award, AIChE, Environmental Engineering Division, 2015 White Award, International Society for Electrostatic Precipitation, 2016 Fellow, Association for Environmental Engineering Science Professors (AEESP), 2017 Fuchs Memorial Award, Outstanding contributions in Aerosol Science and Technology, 2018 Simon Freese Award, ASCE Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2021 Member, National Academy of Engineering, Elected, 2019