Chair Professor
Department of Chemical and
Petroleum Engineering
Swanson School of Engineering and School of Dental Medicine
United States of America
Dr. Prashant N Kumta is a chair Professor in the Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, Swanson School of Engineering and School of Dental Medicine, USA. Dr. Kumta received his Ph.D. in 1990 in Materials Science and Engineering from University of Arizona, USA. Professor Kumta is the recipient of the NSF Research Initiation Award (RIA), Fellow of the American Ceramic Society (ACerS), American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineers (AIMBE). He has edited/co-edited 9 books, given more than 130 invited and 460 oral presentations, and is the author and co-author of more than 270 refereed publications. Dr. Prashant N Kumta research interests include the synthesis, structure and properties of nanostructured materials for electrochemical electronic, bone tissue engineering, biomineralization, bio-sensing, and non-viral gene delivery applications, Novel Synthesis and Characterization of Advanced Nano structured Materials, Novel Non-Oxide Sol-Gel Synthesis, Colloidal Processing, High Energy Mechanical Milling, Mechanochemical Synthesis, Microstructure and properties of Novel Electronic and Electrochemically active Materials, Novel low temperature physiologically compatible approaches to Bioceramic and Biologic Biomaterials for Bone Tissue Engineering, Gene Delivery, and Biomineralization.
