Sudipta joined the group in September 2025 after completing his Master's at MAKAUT, Kolkata. He works on solar-driven carbon capture technologies and electrochemistry, aiming to cut the energy cost of pulling CO2 from air and flue gas.
Education
MSc, Applied Chemistry
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology (MAKAUT), West Bengal
2024
Thesis in the Colloid Chemistry Research Laboratory under Dr. Abhijit Dan; graduated with the Best Thesis Award and Best Student Award of his cohort.
Experience
Project Assistant (Predoctoral Researcher)
SWACHH Lab, Dept. of Sustainable Energy Engineering, IIT Kanpur
September 2025 – present
Solar-driven carbon capture and electrochemistry: reducing the energy cost of capturing CO2 from air and flue gas.
Research Project Assistant
GreenCat Lab, Centre for Sustainable Technologies, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru
September 2024 – August 2025
Catalytic plastic-upcycling and photocatalysis research under Dr. Navya S. Bhat and Dr. Navneet K. Gupta; first-author review published in Fuel (Elsevier).
IASc–INSA–NASI Summer Research Fellow
CSIR–National Chemical Laboratory (NCL), Pune
June 2023 – August 2023
India's national summer research fellowship (jointly run by the Indian Academy of Sciences, INSA, and NASI); worked on electrocatalysis and electrochemistry.
Publications
At SWACHH Lab1
Sudipta Nayak and Sayan Kar*
EES Solar, 2026 (Hot Article)
Prior & collaborative work5
S Nayak, R Singhal, SMAH Siddiki, K Motokura, NS Bhat, NK Gupta
Fuel 420, 138783 (2026)
S Singh, S Nayak, R Singhal, RK Yadav, NK Gupta
ChemCatChem 18 (11), e70834 (2026)
M Thakur, S Goswami, S Nayak, D Sharma, N Singh, A Sarkar, D Naskar, et al.
Journal of Applied Polymer Science 143 (8), e70101 (2026)
S Nayak, S Goswami, D Sharma, A Sen, A Sarkar, D Naskar, A Dan
International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, 147952 (2025)
M Dinda, S Nayak, A Bag
Carbon Trends, 100574 (2025)
Awards & Honours
Best Thesis Award
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology (MAKAUT), West Bengal
2024
Best Student Award
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology (MAKAUT), West Bengal
2024
IASc–INSA–NASI Summer Research Fellowship (selection)
Indian Academy of Sciences / Indian National Science Academy / National Academy of Sciences, India
2023
Talks & Presentations
Certifications & Training
Summer Research Fellowship completion certificate
CSIR–National Chemical Laboratory (NCL), Pune
2023