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Manish Kumar

Associate Professor - Pennsylvania State University University Park, Pennsylvania United States

Biography

Manish Kumar is an associate professor of chemical engineering, environmental engineering (by courtesy), and biomedical engineering (by courtesy) at Penn State University. He received his bachelor’s degree from the National Institute of Technology in Trichy, India in chemical engineering. He completed an MSc in environmental engineering at the University of Illinois, and then worked for approximately seven years in the consulting industry on applied research projects (lab, pilot, and full scale) on various technologies for water and wastewater treatment. Manish returned to Illinois to complete a PhD in the area of biomimetic membranes and then conducted postdoctoral research at the Harvard Medical School on the structure of water channel proteins, aquaporins. His current work focuses on adapting molecular scale ideas from biology for use in sustainable water and wastewater treatment. He has received the US National Science Foundation CAREER award and the Della and Rustom Roy award for outstanding materials research.