- Designation
- Professor
- Department / centre
- Department of Textile Technology
- Institute
- IIT Delhi
- Education
- Ph.D. Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
- apurba@iitd.ac.in
- Phone
- 01126591413
- Office address
- TX-210
- Personal web page
- textile.iitd.ac.in/faculty-profile/9
Prof. Apurba Das is Professor in the Department of Textile and Fibre Engineering; and Institute Chair Professor. He has joined Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi in 2002 as a faculty after serving in the textile industries and in research organization for about 11 years.
He has guided many Ph.D., M. Tech., B. Tech. students and presently guiding several Ph.D., M. Tech. and B. Tech. students.
He has published many research papers in journals and conferences, authored and edited several books/monographs and written chapters in books.
He has successfully completed many research and consultancy projects from industries and government funding agencies. He has filed several patent applications. He has developed several instruments for characterization of textile materials.
His main areas of teaching and research interest are clothing comfort, sports textiles, nonwovens and technical textiles, protective textiles, filter fabrics, geotextiles, medical bandage, textile composites, and instrumentation. He is the recipient of Teaching Excellence Award.
He has international research collaborations with universities from different countries like, Germany, Poland, Hungary, Slovenia, Italy, Portugal, China, South Korea, UK, Hong Kong, Croatia etc.