Mentoring graduate students and project management

• Proven leader with ability to translate deep knowledge and experience in decarbonization and new energy technologies research; biofuels (RNG, methanol and SAF), gasification, waste management, CO2 valorization, low CI fuels (hydrocarbon synthesis from waste-derived syngas), plastics, and hydrogen production. • Understands future technological landscape to drive sustainability in near term for advance recycling of plastics. Champion for collaboration and with a natural talent with… Show more • Proven leader with ability to translate deep knowledge and experience in decarbonization and new energy technologies research; biofuels (RNG, methanol and SAF), gasification, waste management, CO2 valorization, low CI fuels (hydrocarbon synthesis from waste-derived syngas), plastics, and hydrogen production. • Understands future technological landscape to drive sustainability in near term for advance recycling of plastics. Champion for collaboration and with a natural talent with people and leadership skills. • Research scientist with over twenty years of combined experience in leading an interdisciplinary team of researchers, post-docs, and engineers. One of the 22 winners of CCEMC Grand Challenge Award for CO2 valorization project in Alberta.• Significant level of knowledge within chemistry and particularly in heterogeneous catalysis- scale-up design and synthesis of materials, characterization, and related analytics, commissioning, and operation. • Significant experience in technical communication and facilitating presentations and results through project updates and contributing towards the publication of papers/reports/patents. • Experience in proposal development and securing significant levels of project funding and leading research and development projects. • Experienced with nanotechnology approach to synthesize new materials (nano-pore zeolites and catalysts) and characterization for new product development and process improvement for reduced carbon intensity (CI). • Project management experience in renewable energy industry involving new and retrofit projects . Show less

* Reforming technology development for syngas and hydrogen production* Solvent formuation and environmental impact studies for alkanolamine carbon capture process* New generation sorbent development for CO2 capture* Microporous membrane development for syngas separation

* Process and catalyst development for dryreforming technology for syngas and hydrogen production* Advanced high temeprature water-gas-shift catalysis* Biomass reforming for hydrogen production* Catalyst manufacturing and upscaling

• Development of immobilization technique for ionic liquid as heterogeneous acid catalyst• Development of Nafion-silica Nanaocomposites as heterogeneous catalyst (Dupont collabrative research activity)• Alkylation reaction for isooctane formation• Collaborated with Total Fina Elf, Belgium

* Development of microporous materials such as zeolites and mesoporous materials using coal fly ash* Development of odour removal adsorbent* Resource Recovery of Coal Fly Ash

* Established new laboratory setup for mesoporous synthesis and characterization at IIP, Dehradun* Initial research on HMS and MCMs & SBAs were carried out for HDS catalysis* Mentor for graduate students

* Technical support for development of low quinoline insoluble coal tar pitches based seperator plates for phosphoric acid fuel cells