Assam Vaibhav, Assam Gaurav and Assam Saurav Award, the highest civilian honour of the Government of Assam, has been announced by the state government. Dr. Binoy Kumar Saikia is awarded the Assam Saurab Prize for his contribution to the development of science and technology.
Dr. Binoy Kumar Saikia is a senior scientist at the Northeast Institute of Science and Technology, Jorhat (NEIST), Assam, India. He is also the Group Leader of the Coal and Energy Research Group in NEIST’s Materials Science and Technology Division. His research interests include the chemistry and technology of energy and the environment in general, especially coal, carbon and nanomaterials, atmospheric aerosols and air pollution. He has developed and patented techniques for producing blue fluorescent carbon quantum dots from Indian coal in both India and the United States.
Dr..Saikia completed his Master’s degree in Inorganic Chemistry from Gauhati University in 2001 and his PhD from Dibrugarh University in 2008 with the thesis “Some Aspects of Structural Studies of Assam Coal”.
Dr. Binoy Kumar Saikia is the fifth Assamese to receive the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award.
