Biography:
Ms. Shilpa Nandi studied Microbiology at Lovely Professional University, Punjab and graduated as a gold medalist in 2019. She then joined as a research scholar at Centre for the Environment, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India in the year 2021 and currently working under the supervision of Prof. Pankaj Tiwari and Prof. Lalit Mohan Pandey. She was awarded the prestigious Prime Minister’s Research Fellowship (PMRF) in the year 2022. Her scholarly pursuits focus on isolating desired microbes based on their surface-active properties for the utilization in petroleum industry for oil recovery.
Title : Microbial Enhanced Oil Recovery (MEOR) utilizing biosurfactant-biopolymer synergies