Dr. Sudip Kumar Das is currently Professor and Head in the Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Calcutta. He has completed his Ph.D. and M. Tech. in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur and graduated from the University of Calcutta in Chemical Engineering and Chemistry Hons.  He is also actively engaged in research related to different fields of Chemical Engineering, like single and multiphase (gas-liquid) flow through pipelines and piping components, multiphase flow through coils, fluidization and inverse fluidization, reaction engineering, wastewater treatment technology, heavy metals and organic pollutants removal from wastewater, Process Plant Safety, Computational fluid dynamics, artificial neural networks and machinable glass-ceramics. He has published 1 book, 9 chapters, 190 papers in National and International journals and presented a large number of invited lectures in the Conferences. He has been a reviewer for more than 135 National and International journals.