Functional Textiles and Clothing 2023 / Springer Proceedings in Materials Bd.42 (PDF)

Deepti Gupta is Professor in the Department of Textile & Fibre Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India. She has more than thirty five years of teaching and research experience. Dr Gupta works in the area of Surface Functionalization and Eco friendly finishing of textiles, Microbe Resistant textiles, Functional Clothing and Garment Sizing. She has published more than 100 papers in national and international journals of repute, edited 6 books and contributed several chapters to books. She has featured on the Stanford University list of 2% most cited Material scientists for the years 2020-2022. She has guided 12 PhD students. She along with her team was awarded the "Biotech Product and Process Development and Commercialisation Award 2020" by the Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India and she was awarded the "Outstanding Alumna Award" in 2018. Dr Gupta is founder mentor to a wearable health-tech start-up company and Chair of the Organising committee of theBiannual conference on Functional Textiles and Clothing (FTC). Abhijit Majumdar is holding the position of Chair Professor for Decision Sciences in Textile and Fibre engineering department at Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India (IIT Delhi). He graduated from Calcutta University in 1995 with Gold medal in Textile Technology. He also holdsM.Tech and MBA degrees from IIT Delhi. He acquired Ph.D in Production Engineering from Jadavpur University, Kolkata. He has 25 years of experience in academia and 2 years of experience in industry. He has authored two textbooks and edited five books. He has published 160research papers in refereed journals which have received more than 6000 citations. He has also guided 15 Ph.D scholars. He is one of the Editors of the Journal of the Textile Institute and an area editor of Operations Management Research journal. He is the recipient of Eminent Engineer Award from Institution of Engineers (India), Best Industry Relevant Masters Project Supervision