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Chemical Engineering


The discipline of Chemical Engineering at IITGN was started in 2009 with undergraduate and Ph.D. programs and was expanded in 2011to include an M.Tech degree program in Chemical Engineering. The discipline currently hosts research activities which can be broadly classified into:

  • Nanosciences, Colloidal Sciences, Polymer Sciences
  • Pharmaceutical Processing
  • Process Design, Process Systems Engineering, Process Safety
  • Crystallization
  • Molecular Simulations
  • Process Safety
  • Biomedical Engineering

The research facilities, which are continously being upgraded currently include:

  • Particle Size Analyzer
  • Gas Chromatograph
  • UV Vis Spectrophotometer
  • Lyophilizer
  • In-situ Raman Spectrometer
  • Rheometer
  • Surface tension measurement equipment
  • Powder surface energy measurement equipment
  • A range of wet lab equipment
  • High Performance Computing facilities
  • Inverted Fluorescence Microscope
  • XRD
  • AFM
  • FESEM
  • Zeta Sizer

In order to meet current and future research and teaching requirements, the discipline of Chemical Engineering at IIT Gandhinagar seeks outstanding applicants from all areas of Chemical Engineering to fill multiple positions at all levels.

For queries or information regarding faculty recruitment specifically in Chemical Engineering at IITGN, please contact Prof. Prachi Thareja [prachi@iitgn.ac.in]. For general questions related to faculty recruitment at IITGN, please write to faculty.recruitment@iitgn.ac.in