# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/deepika-kurup
# Generated: 2026-09-04T21:08:16.313Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/deepika-kurup"
name: "Deepika Kurup"
slug: "deepika-kurup"
description: "Deepika Kurup  is an inventor and clean water advocate. She is the recipient of the 2012 Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Award. Kurup was awarded the $25,000 Award for her work in developing a new and inexpensive method to clean water using solar power. She also a finalist in the 2014 international Stockholm Junior Water Prize with her project \"A Novel Photocatalytic Pervious Composite for Degrading Organics and Inactivating Bacteria in Wastewater.\""
tagline: "Inventor, scientist, and clean water advocate"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Deepika_Kurup_White_House_Science_Fair.png?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1996-04-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.475954666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 137
platforms:
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    url:       "https://x.com/TheDeepikaKurup"
    handle:    "TheDeepikaKurup"
  - platform:  "LINKEDIN"
    url:       "https://www.linkedin.com/in/deepikakurup/"
    handle:    "deepikakurup"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://deepikakurup.com/"
  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCa9KN9p55PLvQRnRHyjbh0w"
    handle:    "@deepikakurup676"
    followers: 137
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    title: "Діпіка Куруп"
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    title: "Deepika Kurup"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepika_Kurup"
    title: "Deepika Kurup"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepika_Kurup"
    title: "Deepika Kurup"
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    title: "Deepika Kurup"
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    title: "ദീപിക കുറുപ്പ്"
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    title: "ਦੀਪਿਕਾ ਕੁਰੂਪ"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump