Purnendu Dasgupta

Purnendu K. (Sandy) Dasgupta is a native of India and was educated in a college founded by Irish missionaries where he got his bachelor’s degree with honors in Chemistry. He joined Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge as a graduate student in early 1973 and began studies in electrochemistry before switching to research on environmental analysis under Philip W. West. In 1981, Dasgupta joined Texas Tech where he remained for 25 years before moving to the University of Texas at Arlington in 2007 as the Chair and Jenkins Garrett Professor. Research in the Dasgupta lab focuses on finding the best solution to a problem and is not married to any specific technique. The present flagship project in the lab is building an ion chromatography for use in Mars exploration.