Prof. Smita Srivastava

Prof. Smita Srivastava has expertise in the application of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering principles for the development of large-scale sustainable bioprocesses for commercial production of speciality chemicals. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biotechnology at IIT Madras. She has more than 10 years of Teaching experience in which she has taught many theory and lab courses related to the field of Bioprocess engineering, including Bioreactor Design and Analysis, Bioprocess Modeling and Simulation, Plant Cell bioprocessing, Bioreaction Engineeering Lab and Bioprocess Engineering Lab, for the B.Tech/M.Tech/M.S/PhD students of the Institute. Her research experience in bioprocess engineering has resulted in 22 peer-reviewed international journal publications as first/corresponding author, 4 book chapters, 5 Indian patent applications and 29 different international/national conference presentations. To promote research in a specialized field like Plant Cell Bioprocess, she formulated and offered a new course in 2012 on Plant Cell Bioprocessing (as a professional elective) for the undergraduates and postgraduate students of IIT Madras. This course is also offered as an NPTEL course now. Dr. Smita is also affiliated to the Teaching and Learning Center at IIT Madras as a core and executive member, where she rendered her services as coordinator and resource person in various faculty development programmes/workshops and teaching assistant training programmes.
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