Department staff
Background
Diganta finished his Bachelor of Engineering degree (Chemical Engineering) from Rajasthan University, India (1996) and PhD (Chemical Engineering) from Loughborough University, UK (2001). He was a post-doctoral research fellow at Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands and a visiting fellow at Princeton University, US (2001-2003).
Prior to joining Loughborough University, Diganta was a Departmental Lecturer in Chemical Engineering at the University of Oxford (2003-2007). He has also held a visiting faculty appointment at Eindhoven University, the Netherlands (short term).
Diganta was promoted to Senior Lecturer in August 2009.
Professional affiliations
- International Water Association (IWA), London, UK
External appointments
- Guest Editor, Journal of Transport in Porous Media, entitled ''Upscaling multiphase flow in porous media: from pore to core and beyond',2005. (Springer-Verlag)
- Co-Founding Member and Secretary, International Water Association (IWA) Specialist Group on 'Multiphase Flow and Transport of Contaminants in Porous Media.
- Elected Vice Chair, International Water Association (IWA) Specialist Group on 'Multiphase Flow and Transport in Porous Media'.
- Associate Editor, Water Science and Technology (IWA Publishers)
- Editorial Board Member, Biotechnnology Letters (Springer - Verlag)
- Guest Editor, Asia Pacific Journal of Chemical Enginering, 2010. (John Wiley and Sons)
Research interests and activities
- Drug delivery devices for skin and intervertevral disc
- Bioreactor technology for growing artificial tissue
- Dynamic theories for multiphase Flow in Porous Media
- Up-scaling micro-heterogeneity effects on fluid flow and transport behaviour
- Developing tools for problems involving coupled free and porous flow
- Permeable reactive barrier for remediation of contaminated subsurface
- Modern computing and monitoring methods
Invited and keynote lectures (since 2000)
- 58th Annual meeting of Indian Institute of Chemical Engineering (New Delhi, India, 2005)
- 2nd International Congress on Computational Mechanics and Simulation (Guwahati, India, 2006)
Organising / Scientific Committee of International Conferences
- Engineering with Membranes: Medical and Biological Applications (Camogli, Italy, 2005)
- Desalination and Water Purification (Jaipur, India, 2006)
- Industrial Simulation Conference (Palermo, Italy, 2006; Delft, The Netherlands, 2007; Lyon, France, 2008; Loughborough, UK, 2009)
- Middle Eastern Conference on Simulation and Modelling (Alexandria, Egypt, 2006)
- Computational Mechanics and Simulation (Guwahati, India, 2006)
- Interdisciplinary Transport Phenomena (Bansko, Bulgaria, 2007; Volterra, Italy, 2009)
- European Simulation and Modelling Conference (Porto, Portugal, 2005; Tolouse, France, 2006; Malta, 2007;Lyon, France, 2008; Leicester, UK, 2009)
- Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Flow and Transport in Permeable Media, Magdalen College, Oxford, UK, July 13-18, 2008.
- The World Congress on Engineering (London, UK, 2007, 2008, 2009)
- Electronic Healthcare for the 21st Century (eHealth, 2008), (London,UK,2008)