Diganta finished his Bachelor of Engineering degree (Chemical Engineering) from Rajasthan University, India (1996) and PhD (Chemical Engineering) from Loughborough University, UK (2001). He was a post-doctoral research fellow at Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands and a visiting fellow at Princeton University, US (2001-2003). Prior to joining Loughborough University, Diganta was a Departmental Lecturer in Chemical Engineering at the University of Oxford (2003-2007). He has also held a visiting faculty appointment at Eindhoven University, the Netherlands and Texas Southern University, Houston, the USA (short term). Diganta was promoted to Senior Lecturer in August 2009.

Drug delivery devices for skin and intervertevral disc Bioreactor technology for growing artificial tissue Dynamic theories for multiphase Flow in Porous Media Up-scaling micro-heterogeneity effects on fluid flow and transport behaviour Developing tools for problems involving coupled free and porous flow Permeable reactive barrier for remediation of contaminated subsurface Modern computing and monitoring methods