Rate My Professor Biplob Pramanik

Dr. Biplob Pramanik is an Associate Professor in the Civil and Infrastructure Engineering Discipline within the School of Engineering at RMIT University, Australia. He currently serves as Director of the Water: Effective Technologies and Tools (WETT) Research Centre, an ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) Fellow, and President of the International Society for Fatberg Management. Pramanik obtained his PhD from RMIT University in 2016. Before joining RMIT in his present capacity, he was a Lecturer at La Trobe University and held a Vice-Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the University of Wollongong from January 2017 to January 2019. His academic career is marked by significant contributions to water and wastewater treatment research, with a focus on innovative solutions for environmental challenges.

Pramanik's research centers on developing separation-based technological platforms for the removal of emerging pollutants from water and wastewater, as well as fatberg management and resource recovery from waste streams. As the lead Chief Investigator, he has secured over $6.5 million in competitive research funding, including ARC DECRA and ARC Linkage Projects. He has successfully supervised 23 PhD students and delivered over 20 keynote and invited presentations at international conferences and institutions. Pramanik is a prolific researcher with more than 250 publications to his name, over 170 of which appear in highly ranked international peer-reviewed journals. These works have collectively received over 9,500 citations, reflecting an h-index of 55. Among his influential publications are "Pathway, classification and removal efficiency of microplastics in wastewater treatment plants" (2019), "The anaerobic digestion process of biogas production from food waste: Prospects and constraints" (2019), "Treatment of textile wastewater with membrane bioreactor: a critical review" (2016), "Contamination, bioaccumulation and toxic effects of perfluorinated chemicals (PFCs) in the water environment: a review paper" (2009), and "A review of the management and treatment of brine solutions" (2017). His contributions continue to shape advancements in environmental engineering and sustainable water technologies.