Associate Professor, Dept. of Chemical Engineering

Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani

Hyderabad Campus

Jawahar Nagar, Kapra Mandal

Medchal District - 500 078; Telangana, India.

Tel: +91-40-66303-554 or Mobile: +91-9848723783

 

ABOUT THE FACULTY:

 

Aug. 2010 - till date: Working at BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus

 

Feb. 2008 – Jan. 2010: Post-doctoral fellow, Switzerland; Mechanics of Materials and Nanostructures Laboratory; EMPA (ETH Zurich)

                                                         

Jan. 2005 - Dec. 2007: Ph.D. in Cellulose Fibre Reinforced Composites; University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences (BOKU), Vienna, Austria; Thesis: Characterisation of Cellulose Fibres & Composites

 

Sep. 2002 - Sep. 2004: Post-graduate Research Assistant, Germany; Institute for Composite Materials, TU Chemnitz

                  

Sep. 2000 – Feb. 2002: Master of Science in Biobased Materials; University of Applied Sciences, Reutlingen, Germany

 

1996 - 2000: Bachelor of Technology in Chemical Engineering, C.B.I.T College (Affiliated to Osmania University) Hyderabad, India

 

PUBLICATIONS: 

 

1. SCOPUS Indexed Journals - 25

2. Book Chapters  - 02

4. Conference Proceedings - 20 

 

AWARDS:

 

1. Received the Best Oral Presentation Award for the paper << Tensile testing of Single Fibres>> presented at Second International Conference on Structural Integrity and Exhibition (SICE 2018, 25-27.07.2018, Hyderabad) under the category "delegates".

 

2. Received the 1st Runner up Award for the paper << The Influence of Super Masscolloider and Lab Valley beater on the Morphology of Sapwood Pulp Fibres>> presented at IPPTA Workshop cum Seminar, Rajahmundry 8-9th Nov, 2019.

 

 

ADMINISTRATIVE ROLES:

 

1. Faculty-in-Charge: Centralized Purchases Unit (CPU) (Aug. 2018 -   )

 

2. Head of the Department: Aug. 2014 - Sept. 2016  

 

3. Organizing secretary – AMDA 2014: National Conference on Advanced Materials for Defence and Aerospace Applications, Dec. 22, 2014 was organised at BITS Pilani Hyderabad Campus. Bharat Ratna Prof. C.N. R Rao was the Keynote Speaker.

 

4. Convener – ICE 2013 : National conference on Innovations in Chemical Engineering ICE 2013, Nov. 15-16, 2013 was organised as Convener at BITS Pilani Hyderabad Campus. Total 180 participants were attended from 8 different states.

 

5. Organizing secretary – WEMEP 2012: Indo-Danish International Conference on Wind Energy: Materials, Engineering and Policies, WEMEP 2012, Nov. 22-23, 2012 was organised at BITS Pilani Hyderabad Campus. Total 150 delegates were participated.

 

 

 MEMBERSHIP IN ACADEMIC BODIES:

 

1. Member in Board of studies for Chemical Engineering Department, Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technlogy (CBIT), Gandipet, Hyderabad (autonomous)

 

2. Life Member (LM-53128), Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers (IIChE)

 

3. Member (CPPRI-IM: 704), Central Pulp and Paper Research Institute, Saharanpur, U.P