Functional Textiles and Clothing 2023

Deepti Gupta is Professor in the Department of Textile & Fibre Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India. She has more than thirty five years of teaching and research experience. Dr Gupta works in the area of Surface Functionalization and Eco friendly finishing of textiles, Microbe Resistant textiles, Functional Clothing and Garment Sizing. She has published more than 100 papers in national and international journals of repute, edited 6 books and contributed several chapters to books. She has featured on the Stanford University list of 2% most cited Material scientists for the years 2020-2022. She has guided 12 PhD students. She along with her team was awarded the "Biotech Product and Process Development and Commercialisation Award 2020" by the Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India and she was awarded the "Outstanding Alumna Award" in 2018. Dr Gupta is founder mentor to a wearable health-tech start-up company and Chair of the Organising committee of theBiannual conference on Functional Textiles and Clothing (FTC).