Namita Roy Choudhury

Namita Roy Choudhury is a Professor of Engineering and former Head of the Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering at RMIT until 2024. She joined the School of Engineering, RMIT University in 2018. Prior to that Choudhury was a Professor at the University of Adelaide and a Professor of Polymer Science at University of South Australia from 1996-2017. She graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology, IIT, Kharagpur, India and subsequent to that she conducted post-doctoral research at C.N.R.S Mulhouse, France.
Choudhury’s research interests lie at the interface of material science & engineering, adhesion and interfacial engineering and biomaterials & biointerfaces where she designs and develops unique biomimetic materials for applications in renewable energy, water, and regenerative medicine. Her research activity pertains to both fundamental and applied research with strategic partnership with Materials and Manufacturing Industries. She has championed the field of responsive biomimetic elastomers through unparalleled studies and interdisciplinary research for which her team received Ralston Medal in 2015 and RMIT Research Excellence award in 2022 and more recently American Chemical Society’s (ACS) George Stafford Whitby award in 2024. Alongside her dynamic administrative service record, Choudhury has maintained an active teaching and research profile. She has a distinguished record in research training, having supervised and inspirational to > 35 doctoral students, 20 postdoctoral fellows, all of whom are well placed in industry, Govt or academia. An outstanding ambassador of her profession in the community, to government and within scholarly communities, she contributed to >250 peer-reviewed articles, 8 patents, 1 spin-off company and 2 books (eds.). Her team collaborates very productively with colleagues within academia and with national and international partners in US, India, Sweden, France through major collaborative projects and made significant contributions in both the advancement of fundamental knowledge and application of biomimetics in materials engineering