Dr. Anushree Malik is Institute Chair Professor at Centre for Rural Development and Technology, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, New Delhi. She works in the broad area of biological waste treatment, algal biorefineries, and resource recovery. She has been leading several carbon negative-integrated algal biorefinery projects targeting at least six sustainable development goals via product formulation as well as technology development for on-site municipal and industrial effluent’s treatment.
Dr. Malik received her Ph.D. from IIT Delhi, New Delhi in 2000. Subsequently, she worked as JSPS post-doctoral fellow at Utsumoniya University, Japan and as an Assistant Professor at School of Environmental Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi before joining IIT Delhi in 2004. She had successful international collaborations with Netherlands, Sri Lanka, Brazil, besides many national projects and industrial collaborations. Dr. Malik received the DST-Lockheed Martin India Innovation Growth Program Award (2015), BRSI Fellow Award (2019), and also featured in a list of 75 women in STEAM disciplines, an honor jointly bestowed by the Government of India and the British High Commission.
Dr. Malik’s Fulbright-Kalam project aims to design an experimental framework for 3D printing specific algal-bacterial communities with well-defined architectures and compositions. The studies will enhance our understanding of how such defined algal-bacterial communities contribute to carbon sequestration in response to environmental stresses, and whether carbon sorption and release turn close loop with algal communities trapping biogenic CO2. For her teaching component, Dr. Malik plans to teach courses related to Biofuels and Green Chemistry.