Ankan Sinha

Ankan Sinha is a Research Scientist III at South Dakota Mines' CAPE Lab in Rapid City, SD. He oversees operations of the CNAM-Bio Center’s pilot-scale bioprocessing facility while conducting R&D for bioproduct applications. With 9 years of experience in bioprocess engineering and two patents, he bridges laboratory-scale (1-10 L) and industrial-scale (50-1000 L) bioreactor systems.

• Education
• B.Tech., West Bengal University of Technology, India
• M.Tech., National Institute of Technology Durgapur, India
• Ph.D., Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India

His expertise includes high-cell-density microbial cultivation for bioactives, enzyme production, antibiotic fermentation, hydrothermal liquefaction, and bioreactor design. He previously established a biocrude oil facility for ONGC India and contributed to the DBT Pan IIT Center for Bioenergy.