Biography

Dr. Sanjib Banerjee is an Associate Professor at Indian Institute of Technology Bhilai. He is currently associated with the Department of Chemistry and Dept. of Materials Science & Metallurgical Engineering at IIT Bhilai. He leads the "Polymers for Health, Energy & Sustainability Laboratory (PHES LAB) " at IIT Bhilai.
He received a Ph.D. degree in 2013 from the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science. In his Ph.D. work, he developed polymeric nanostructures through controlled polymerizations. After completing Ph.D. work, he worked as a Post-doctoral Research Associate with Professor Rudolf Faust at UMass Lowell, USA, developing polyisobutylene-based polymeric materials for application as lubricants and self-healing sealants for photovoltaics. In 2015, he moved to the ENSCM in France and worked there for two years under the supervision of Dr. Bruno Ameduri. During this period, he extensively worked on developing novel strategies to produce fluoropolymers for applications in functional coatings and energy storage technolgies. 
His research group at IIT Bhilai is developing innovative materials as key elements for healthcare, sustainability, and energy applications. Dr. Banerjee has 97 journal publications with an h-index of 30, 05 granted patents, 01 edited book, and 09 book chapters to his credit. Under his guidance, 5 students have received PhD degrees.
Dr. Banerjee has been the PI on over 8.0 Cr INR of funding in the past 8 years and his work has been recognized through multiple awards, including the SERB-Early Career Research Award 2019, SERB-Ramanujan Fellowship 2016, RSC-Molecular Systems Design & Engineering Outstanding Reviewer 2019, RSC-Polymer Chemistry Emerging Investigator-2020, Wiley-Next Generation of Polymer Researchers-2022, Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI)-Bronze Medal for the year 2024, RSC-Polymer Chemistry Pioneering Investigators-2025 and the Society of Polymer Science India (SPSI)-Prof. K. Kishore Award for the Year 2025, among others. He served as an Associate Editor of Frontiers in Chemistry journal from Feb, 2022 to Feb, 2024. Since, Feb, 2024 and Head of the Dept. of Chemistry, IIT Bhilai from Aug, 2020 till Aug 2024. Since, Feb, 2024, he has been an Editor of Elsevier-Materials Today Communications Journal.​