2016 and FITT award for best thesis at IIT Delhi in Chemical Engineering. Honors He is a visiting fellow of Royal Society, UK, DAAD fellow, UKIERI award, Distinguish Alumni Award from Chemical Engineering Department, Calcutta University, FITT award for best thesis at IIT Delhi. Prof. R. D. Desai 80th Birthday Commemoration Medal & Prize, 2012, Indian Chemical Society; Fellow of the Indian Chemical Society, 2012 Fellow of Institute of Engineers, 2011 FITT award for best M.Tech. / Ph.D. thesis 2010; prize money shared with student A. Awasthi Visiting Fellow, Royal Society, UK, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, 2008 Fellow of National Academy Sciences of India Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry, UK. Editor / Editorial Board Member Editor in chief, Indian Chemical Engineer, quarterly Journal of Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers, 2018 – present (former Editor, 2006–2007); published by Taylor & Francis UK Research interests Electrochemical storage and renewable energy sources: materials and device development of PEMFC, DAFC, DGFC, SOFC, SOEC, Hydrogen generation – PEM electrolyzer and photochemical water splitting, Li-, Na- ion battery, super-capacitors and their application in portable electronic equipment and rural electrification in the off grid area. Interfacial & electro-chemical engineering and micro-fluid mechanics and their application in micro fuel cell, bio-sensing, reduction to chemical fuels, dye removal from water by reverse micelles and reuse, dye mineralization by photo-catalysis and their application to rural sectors. Selected bibliography Books Arya Das, Suddhasatwa Basu, Mamata Mohapatra, Transition Metal Oxalates as Potential Futuristic Materials for Efficient Energy Storage Capacity in Oxalate: Structure, Functions and Occurrence, Nova Science Publishers (2020) Surya Kanta Das, Shivakumar I. Angadi, Tonmoy Kundu, and Suddhasatwa Basu, Mineral Processing of Rare Earth Ores, Ch 2, in Rare-Earth Metal Recovery for Green Technologies Methods and Applications, Ed. Rajesh Kumar Jyothi, Springer (2020) Neetu Kumari, M. Ali Haider and Suddhasatwa Basu, Mechanism of Catalytic and Electrocatalytic Reduction to Fuels and Chemicals (Chapter 2) in Electrochemical Reduction of Carbon Dioxide: Fundamentals and Technologies, Ed. Jinli Qiao, Yuyu Liu, Jiujun Zhang, CRC Press 2016 Suddhasatwa Basu, Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell Technology: India's Perspective in Energy Material, in Science Based Technologies for Sustainable and Adequate Energy for India, Ed. I. Manna, B. Raj, K. Mudali, Proc Indian Natn Sci Acad 81(4), September 2015 pp. 865–890 S. Basu (Ed.), Recent Trends in Fuel Cell Science and Technology, Springer, New York (2007) (apart from editing the book contributed two chapters) Basu, S.,