Dr. Debasree Purkayastha Assistant Professor
School of Infrastructure

Research Interests

Waste Management, Faecal Sludge Management, Black Soldier Fly, Sanitation Engineering 

Contact Details

  • Office No. 134, School of Infrastructure
  • 0674 713 6652
  • debasreep@iitbbs.ac.in, drdebasree@gmail.com

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Education

 Degree Discipline Year School
  PhD Environmental Engineering 2021 Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
  M.Tech Environmental Engineering 2015 National Institute of Technology Agartala
  B.Tech Civil Engineering 2012 National Institute of Technology Agartala
 

Biosketch

Debasree has done her bachelors in civil engineering and masters in environmental engineering. She has completed her doctoral study in Waste segregation and treatment using Black Soldier Fly Larvae (BSFL). Her research interest is environmental engineering and specifically waste management as well as faecal sludge management. Before joining  Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar, she was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions postdoctoral fellow at Nord University, Norway.  

Teaching

Undergraduate level:
1. Engineering Drawing (CE1P001)
 
Postgraduate level:
 1. Seminar (CE6S001)
 
 
 

 

Recent Publications (International Journals)

1Purkayastha, Debasree, and Prabhat Khanal. "Moving towards fully circular insect production: A focus on insect-derived biowastes." Science of The Total Environment 947 (2024): 174560. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.174560
2Purkayastha, Debasree, and Sudipta Sarkar. "Performance evaluation of black soldier fly larvae fed on human faeces, food waste and their mixture." Journal of Environmental Management 326 (2023): 116727. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.116727
3Purkayastha, Debasree, and Sudipta Sarkar. "Black soldier fly larvae for treatment and segregation of commingled municipal solid waste at different environmental conditions." Journal of Environmental Management 302 (2022): 1 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.11406014060.
4Purkayastha, D., and Sudipta Sarkar. "Sustainable waste management using black soldier fly larva: a review." International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology (2021): 1-26. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13762-021-03524-7
5Purkayastha, Debasree, and Sudipta Sarkar. "Physicochemical structure analysis of chitin extracted from pupa exuviae and dead imago of wild black soldier fly (Hermetia illucens)." Journal of Polymers and the Environment 28 (2020): 445-457. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10924-019-01620-x
6Purkayastha, Debasree, Mrinmoy Majumder, and Sumanta Chakrabarti. "Suitability index for collection bin allocation using analytical hierarchy process (AHP) cascaded to artificial neural network (ANN)." Detritus 9 (2019): 38. DOI 10.31025/2611-4135/2019.13867
7Purkayastha, Debasree, Sudipta Sarkar, Partha Roy, and Absar Kazmi. "Isolation and morphological study of ecologically-important insect “Hermetia illucens” collected from Roorkee compost plant." Pollution 3, no. 3 (2017): 453-459. DOI: 10.7508/pj.2017.03. 010
8Purkayastha Debasree, Majumder Mrinmoy, Chakrabarti Sumanta, Collection and recycle bin location-allocation problem in solid waste management: A review, Pollution, Volume 1(2); 175-191. (2015). DOI: 10.7508/pj.2015.02.006.
9Purkayastha, Debasree, Umesh Mishra, and Swarup Biswas. "A comprehensive review on Cd (II) removal from aqueous solution." Journal of water process engineering 2 (2014): 105-128. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jwpe.2014.05.009
 

Academic Honors & Awards

  • MSCA Travel grant 2024 from Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) conference 2024, organised by the Belgian Presidency of the Council of the European Union with the support of the European Commission
  • Marie Sklodowska Curie Action Postdoctoral Fellowship (2022) from European Commission
  • Best Popular Science Stories under PhD Category, Augmenting Writing Skills for Articulating Research (AWSAR) (2019) by Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India
  • CSIR Travel award (2019) from Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Government of India
  • Best mess secretary award (2018-2019) from Dean of Student Welfare, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
 

Research Scholar

 Debasree is actively looking for PhD aspirants interested in doing research work on Black soldier fly larvae based waste management and faecal sludge management. Please contact her through email if interested. 
 

Professional Experience

1. Marie Sklodowska-Curie Action (MSCA) Postdoc,  Nord University, Norway (November, 2023 - September, 2024)                                      2. Manager (R&D), Atlas Sani-tech Private Limited, Chennai (January, 2023 - September, 2023)                                                                        3. Research Associate, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Delhi (November, 2022 - Januray, 2023)                                                                4. Research Associate, Bluedrop Enviro Private Limited, Hyderabad (September, 2021 - July, 2022)

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