Centre for the Environment, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IIT Guwahati, India)

Postdoctoral Fellowships

• Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, West Virginia University, USA (September 2023 – June 2026), on the U.S. EPA-funded project titled “Sustainable Nutrient Removal Opportunities for Small Communities with Lagoon Wastewater Systems.”
• Maire-Tecnimont Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chemical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Karnataka (NITK), Surathkal, India (December 2021 – June 2023).

Awards and Recognitions

• Selected for the International Travel Support (ITS) Award from the Department of Science and Technology – Science and Engineering Research Board (DST-SERB), Government of India, to present research at the Chemical Research 2020 International Conference, Germany (2020)
• Winner, North-East Biostart: Innovation and Talent Search Contest, organized by Guwahati Biotech Park and the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of Assam (2018).
• Best Paper Award, 5th International Conference on Bioenergy, Environmental and Sustainable Technologies (BEEST 2021) (2021).
• Best Oral Presentation Award, DST-UKIERI Supported Workshop-cum-Symposium (2020).
• Best Poster Presentation Award, National Conference on “WATER 2020: Issues & Challenges in Water Treatment and Allied Research for Sustainable Environment” (2020).
• Best Paper Award in the Bioenergy and Biochemical Engineering category, CHEMCON 2017 (2017).

Membership of Professional Bodies

• Member of American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE Member ID: 009905945026) since September, 2025.

Academic Distinctions

• Institute Research Fellowship awarded by the Ministry of Education, Government of India, during the Ph.D. programme at IIT Guwahati (2015 – 2020).
• Secured All India Rank 19 in the JNU-DBT Combined Entrance Examination for Biotechnology (CEEB) in 2013.
• Recipient of the West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education Scholarship in 2009

• Datta, P., Tiwari, P., & Pandey, L. M. (2018). “Isolation and characterization of biosurfactant producing and oil-degrading Bacillus subtilis MG495086 from formation water of Assam oil reservoir and its suitability for enhanced oil recovery”. Bioresource Technology, 270, 439-448. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biortech.2018.09.047 (Impact Factor: 9).
• Datta, P., Tiwari, P., & Pandey, L. M. (2020). “Oil washing proficiency of biosurfactant produced by isolated Bacillus tequilensis MK 729017 from Assam reservoir soil”. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, 195, 107612. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.petrol.2020.107612 (Impact Factor: 5.2).
• Datta, P., Tiwari, P., & Pandey, L. M. (2021). “Experimental Investigation on Suitability of Surfactin for Enhanced Oil Recovery: Stability, Adsorption Equilibrium and Kinetics Studies”. Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, 10, 107083. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jece.2021.107083 (Impact Factor: 7.2).
• Piash, K. P. S., Perez-Vega, P., Datta, P., Neller, G., Luong, T. N. M., Lin, L. S., & Sanyal, O. (2025). “Tuning polyelectrolyte topology and crosslinking parameters to facilitate same-sized monovalent nutrient ions separation”. Journal of Membrane Science, 733, 124366. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.memsci.2025.124366 (Impact Factor: 9).
• Singh, A., Datta, P., & Pandey, L. M. (2017). “Deciphering the mechanistic insight into the stoichiometric ratio dependent behavior of Cu (II) on BSA fibrillation.” International journal of biological macromolecules, 97, 662-670. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2017.01.045 (Impact Factor: 8.5).

Conference Presentations

• Datta, P., Orner, K., & Lin, L. S. (2025). Nutrient Removal from Lagoon Effluent Using an Iron-Dosed Upflow Anaerobic Sludge Blanket (UASB) Bioreactor. Presented at the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Annual Meeting 2025, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, November 2-6, 2025.
• Datta, P., Tiwari, P., & Pandey, L. M. (2019). Understanding the Role of Biosurfactants in Microbial Enhanced Oil Recovery (MEOR). Presented at CHEMCON 2019, organized by the Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi and the Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers, New Delhi, India, December 16-19, 2019.
• Datta, P., Tiwari, S., & Pandey, L. M. (2016). Bioethanol Production from Waste Breads Using Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Presented at the 6th International Conference on Solid Waste Management (IconSWM 2016), organized by Jadavpur University and the Centre for Quality Management System, Kolkata, India, November 23-26, 2016.

List of Book Chapters

• Datta, P., Bej, S., Vasudeva, M., Raval, K. (2024). “Use of Microalgae for the Development of Carbon Neutral Bio-CNG Process” In “Recent Trends and Developments in Algal Biofuels and Biorefinery” (pp. 383-399). ISBN 978-3-031-52319-9_17. Springer Nature Switzerland. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-52319-9_17.
• Datta, P., Tiwari, P., & Pandey, L. M. (2021). “Microbial Biosurfactants Remediation of Contaminated Soils” In “Biodegradation, Pollutants and Bioremediation Principles” (pp.160-173), ISBN 9780429293931, CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1201/9780429293931.
• Datta, P., Tiwari, S., & Pandey, L. M. (2018). “Bioethanol production from waste breads using Saccharomyces cerevisiae” In “Utilization and Management of Bioresources” (pp. 125-134), ISBN 978-981-10-5348-1, Springer, Singapore. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5349-8_12.
• Datta, P., Tiwari, P., & Pandey, L. M. (2021). “Recent Case Studies of In-Situ and Ex-Situ Microbial Enhanced Oil Recovery” In “Microbial Enhanced Oil Recovery: Principles and Potential, Green Energy and Technology”, ISBN 978-981-16-5464-0, Springer Nature, Singapore. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-5465-7_11.