An expert in process research and metrology, engineering thermoplastics, and environmental engineering, Subhas Sikdar has led the Sustainable Technology Division of EPA's National Risk Management Research Laboratory since 1995. Previously, he headed the Water and Hazardous Wastes Treatment Research Division of EPA's Risk Reduction Engineering Lab, where he was responsible for technologies to treat and dispose wastes, and for modifying processes to minimize them at the source.
Sikdar began his career at Occidental Research Corporation. He later held positions with General Electric, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and founded Scientific Computing & Instruction, before joining EPA in 1990. Sikdar also served as an adjunct professor at the University of Cincinnati.
A member of AIChE's Research and New Technology Committee, Sikdar was also a member of its forerunner, the Research Committee, from 1989 to 1992. He was instrumental in the growth of the Institute's Separations Committee and has been a reviewer for the AIChE Journal.
Sikdar recently served as the Council for Chemical Research's steering committee representative for Technology Vision 2020: The US Chemical Industry.
The author of more than 50 papers and 16 patents, and editor of 6 books, Sikdar has earned patent awards from General Electric and Occidental, the R&D 100 Award in 1990 from R&D magazine, and an EPA Bronze Medal. He earned a BSc in chemistry, BTech in chemical engineering, and MTech in plastics technology from Calcutta University, and an MS and PhD in chemical engineering from the University of Arizona.
[Author Affiliation]
Subhas K. Sikdar
Director, Sustainable Technology
Division
National Risk Management Research Laboratory
US Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) Cincinnati, Ohio
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