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Dhanbad, February 19: Assistant Professor Aarti Kumari, department of Fuel Mineral and Metallurgical Engineering, IIT Indian School of Mines (ISM) Dhanbad, has been selected for the Young Engineers Award of 2023-24 by the Institution of Engineers India (IEI) in the field of metallurgical and material engineering.
A PhD degree holder in ‘Hydrometallurgical Processing of Spent NdFeB Magnet for Recovery Rare Earths’ from the Academy of Scientific and Academic Research, Prof Aarti has researched extractive metallurgy, non-ferrous metal extraction, Metal extraction from Primary-secondary resources via metallurgical pathways, extraction of strategic metals from lean grade ores and wastes.
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AWSAR Award
She received the AWSAR Award from the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, for her research article ‘Today’s Waste is Tomorrow’s Wealth: Recovery of Rare Earth from Waste Magnets of Wind Turbines’ in 2019.
Before joining IIT ISM Dhanbad, Aarti Kumari worked as a Senior Scientist at CSIR-National Metallurgical Laboratory, Jamshedpur, from 2019 to 2022 before working as a Scientist in the same organisation from 2015 to 2019.