Pragyan Patnaik

Teaching assistant (part-time) at Institute of Applied Linguistics and Special Languages (Fachsprachenzentrum) -Assisting students enrolled in the course “Strategies for Writing Scientific Papers” - Conducting English tests for the DAAD - Short talk on Intercultural Competence for a group of engineers

Project title: Determination of microbial activity of anaerobic digestion with regard to substrate characteristics and process conditions - Evaluation of microbial activity with the help of Impedance Analysis - Study of biogas and energy potential of various substrates - Academic supervision, personal guidance of international students - Project management - Translation of official documents and scientific literature from German to English

Volunteer at the International Office, Leibniz University, Hannover - Advising and supporting international students - Organisation of events and workshops - Organizing an international Summer School and delivering a seminar on “Biodegradability – Determination and Comparison” - Planning and executing industrial visits for the students and faculty - Web seminar: Heading for Germany which included organizing and delivering web seminars for incoming Indian students; developing official dossiers

Project title: Collection, Transportation, Recycling and Treatment of Municipal Solid Waste in Vellore district, Tamil Nadu, India with an aim of Sustainable resource Management. - Comparative study of the existing Solid Waste Management techniques in Vellore, and Hannover - Discussion on possible technology adaptation for Waste management in Vellore - Participated in the German-Indian Conference on Research for Sustainability, Bonn

WE HEAL - Women Engineers for Health, Environment and Life programme - A joint project between Agilent technologies and Agastya international foundation (NGO) (link to newspaper article) - Worked on water quality testing - Interacting with the locals to explain water quality, environmental and health issues

Biotechnology, Microbiology, Molecular Biology, Environmental biotechnology, Pharmaceutical biotechnology, Biostatistics

Botany, Biotechnology, Analytic Instrumentation, Bioinformatics