Binoy Kumar Saikia is a principal scientist at North East Institute of Science and Technology, Jorhat (NEIST),

Assam Assam (, , ) is a state in Northeast India, northeastern India, south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra Valley, Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys. Assam covers an area of . It is the second largest state in Northeast India, nor ...

, India. He is also the head of Coal & Energy Division of NEIST. His research interests span energy and environment in general and in particular chemistry and technology of coal, carbon and nano-materials, atmospheric aerosols, and air pollution. He has developed different chemical processes towards alternative applications of coal feedstocks leading to value addition and possibility for minimizing conventional coal combustion in the future. He has developed and patented, both in India and the US, a technology for the production of blue-fluorescent carbon quantum dots from Indian coal. Saikia earned his MSc degree in inorganic chemistry from

Gauhati University Gauhati University also known as GU, is a collegiate public state university located in Guwahati, Assam, India. It was established on 26 January 1948 under the provisions of an Act enacted by the Assam Legislative Assembly and is the oldest un ...

in 2001 and PhD degree from

Dibrugarh University Dibrugarh University is a Collegiate University, collegiate public state university in the Indian state of Assam. It is the second oldest University in Assam and in North East India. It is a member of the Association of Commonwealth Universitie ...

in 2008 for a thesis titled "Some aspects of the structural investigation of Assam coal".

Honours and awards

The honours and awards conferred on Saikia include: *

Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology Shanti or Shanthi may refer to: In Sanskrit * Inner peace, a state of being mentally and spiritually at peace, with enough knowledge and understanding to keep oneself strong in the face of discord or stress * Kshanti, one of the paramitas of B ...

in 2021 for his contributions to earth, atmosphere, ocean and planetary sciences * Prof (Dr) MP Singh Memorial Coal Science Award (2019) from the Mining, Geological and Metallurgical Institute of India (MGMI) * IIME Coal Beneficiation Award (2015) by Indian Institute of Mineral Engineers * MESA Award (2014) by Mineral Engineering Science Association of India * Achiever Awards 2021 in Science and Innovation by Asomiya Pratidin * Associate member of

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(IIChE) * Fellow of Geological Society of India (FGS) * Member of International X-ray Absorption Society, Italy * Member of Indian Science Congress Association * 'Assam Sourav' Award (2022) by the Government of Assam
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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Saikia, Binoy Kumar Recipients of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Earth, Atmosphere, Ocean & Planetary Sciences Year of birth missing (living people) Living people People from Golaghat district Gauhati University alumni Dibrugarh University alumni