Tearcher’s Profile
Swapan Kumar Sarkar has a long track record in research and academia in multidisciplinary fields of Engineering and Medical Science. He is now serving as the Head of the Department of Biomedical Engineering and Public Health and is an Associate Professor. Dr. Swapan Kumar Sarkar started his higher education journey at the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) where he obtained his BSc in Chemical Engineering degree in 2004. He obtained his Master in Engineering Degree in 2007 in Advanced Materials Engineering (Major in Bioceramics and Structural Ceramics) from Kongju National University (South Korea). He finished his PhD from the Department of Biomedical Engineering and Materials (later renamed Regenerative Medicine) in Biomedical Science in 2012 at Soonchunhyang University (South Korea). His PhD research was focused on Regenerative Medicine, Tissue Engineering, Artificial Organs, Drug Delivery Systems, etc. He pursued Post-Doctoral Research at the Same University the Institute of Tissue Regeneration under the sponsorship of his longtime supervisor from his MEng and PhD work. He became a Research Assistant Professor at Soonchunhyang University in 2015 and continued before returning to Bangladesh in 2016. He has a brief industrial experience of one year in Innobone Corporation, Asan city, South Korea as a Post-Doctoral Research Associate.
Swapan Kumar Sarkar Joined Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering Department, Gono Bishwabidyalay, Dhaka in 2017 and was working as Senior Assistant Professor and Head of the Department before moving to the World University of Bangladesh to lead the Department of Biomedical Engineering and Public Heal in August 2022.
Sarkar has 17 years of research and teaching experience in a multidisciplinary environment. He has a unique blend of expertise spanning Engineering, Materials Science, Medicine, and Basic Sciences and commands a bird’s eye view approach to scientific and engineering challenges in research and education in health science and health care. He is a prolific researcher with 32 Scopus-indexed high impact peer review international journals with 405 Scopus citations and an h-index of 12. His total Publication is 35 with a Google scholar citation of 535. He has one South Korean Patent in his name and has authored one Book chapter Published by Pan Stanford Publication.