Assistant Professor:?Feb 2024 – Present

Email: biswasj[at]iitb.ac.in
Tel (Office): ?+9122 2576 7623
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Google Scholar Profile: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=hLtxmNMAAAAJ&hl=en

Academic Background

  • Ph.D. in Process Metallurgy, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada, 2021
  • M.Tech. in Process Engineering, Department of Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India, 2015
  • B.E. in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India, 2013

Professional Experience

  • Assistant Professor, Department of Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science, IIT Bombay (Feb 2024 – present)
  • Post Doctoral Researcher, Department of Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering, Aalto University, Finland, Feb 2022 – Dec 2023
  • Researcher at Tata Research Design and Development Centre (TRDDC), TCS Innovations Lab, Pune, India, Jul 2015 – Dec 2017

Research Interests

  • Metal recycling from secondary sources (E-waste, batteries, waste solar cells)
  • Green metal processing (Green steelmaking)
  • High temperature kinetic studies in ferrous and nonferrous systems
  • Metal Refining
  • Process thermodynamics and kinetics.
  • Process Modelling

Selected Publications

  • Biswas, J., Ulmala, S., Wan, X., Partinen, J., Lundstr?m, M. and Jokilaakso, A., 2023. Selective Sulfation Roasting for Cobalt and Lithium Extraction from Industrial LCO-Rich Spent Black Mass.?Metals,?13(2), p.358.
  • Biswas, J. and Coley, K.S., 2022. Decarburization of Iron Carbon Droplets with Oxidizing Slag: An Experimental Study to Understand the Effect of Ionic and Electronic Conductivity on Decarburization Kinetics.?Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B,?53(2), pp.770-785.
  • Biswas, J., Drain, P.B., Gu, K., Longbottom, R.J., Chapman, M.W., Monaghan, B.J. and Coley, K.S., 2021. Investigation of the Influence of Slag Basicity on Metal Droplet Dephosphorization.?Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B, pp.1-16.
  • Biswas, J., Gu, K. and Coley, K.S., 2021. A Decarburization Model for a Fe–C Droplet Reacting in Oxidizing Slag.?Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B,?52(6), pp.3888-3906.
  • Biswas, J., Goyal, A., Selvanathan, B., Nistala, S.H. and Runkana, V., 2022. Application of Reinforcement Learning for Real-Time Optimal Control of the Pellet Induration Process.?Transactions of the Indian Institute of Metals,?75(10), pp.2539-2546.
  • Biswas, J., Ghosh, S., Ballal, N.B. and Basu, S., 2021. A dynamic mixed-control model for BOF metal–slag–gas reactions.?Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B,?52, pp.1309-1321.