Dr. Samantaray obtained his B. Tech in Plastics Engineering from CIPET, Bhubaneswar with the highest honors and GPA, and pursued MSc. Engg. and Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Science. His doctoral research was focused on designing antibacterial polymers and nanostructured materials for water filtration membranes, photocatalysis, seawater desalination, and toxic pollutant removal. He got awarded the Prestigious Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship 2021 to Caltech. At Kornfield Lab, he investigates strategies for selenium removal through biosorption and biotransformation using bacterial biofilms on porous substrates. He is also interested in harnessing microbial consortia from extreme marine environments onto porous substrates.
