[2] Upon completing his formal education, Mitra joined the Department of Engineering faculty at the University of Alberta.
[3] Upon joining the faculty, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry[4] and Canadian Academy of Engineering.
The improvements in the newest kit enabled individuals, municipalities, or industries to test water at the source and receive results within minutes.
[12] During the COVID-19 pandemic, Mitra helped develop a coating that would kill the COVID-19 virus immediately upon contact with any surface.
His research team worked to quantify the adhesion force between the viral load and the coated surface.