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Education 🎓
Ph.D. (Chemistry), 2005: Center for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, University of Bar-Ilan, Israel 🇮🇱Advisor: Emer. Prof. Aharon Gedanken
M. Phil. (Chemistry), 1999: University of Pune, India 🇮🇳Advisor: Emer. Prof. V.G. Dedgaonkar
M. Sc. (Inorganic Chemistry), 1996: University of Pune, India 🇮🇳
B. Sc. (Chemistry), 1994: University of Pune, India 🇮🇳
Awards & Honors 🏆
Foreign Fellow – Chemical Sciences, Maharashtra Academy of Science (MASc), India (2023) 2023 Purdue College of Engineering – Most Impactful Faculty Inventors 🧠 Purdue University Outstanding Engineering Teachers, Fall 2022 👨🏫 GUINNESS WORLD RECORDSTM – The Lowest Temperature (-100 Degrees Celsius) to Charge a Lithium-ion Battery (2022 2022 Most Impactful Faculty Inventors, Purdue University, USA 2022 Carbon Journal Prize – Special Mention 🏅 ACerS Ceramographic Competition 3rd Prize (2021) Purdue University Outstanding Engineering Teachers, Spring 2021 AIChE Excellence in Process (Microwave) Development Research Award (2021 TMS Light Metals, Extraction and Processing division’s Energy Best Paper Award (2021) 📝 Elected Chair – Purdue Sustainability Committee (2020) 🌱 Fellow – International Association of Advanced Materials, Ulrika, Sweden (2020)
Professional Achievement Award for Innovations in Green Process Engineering, AIChE (2019) 🌍urdue University Outstanding Engineering Teacher, Spring 2019
Salutes to Excellence, American Chemical Society (2019) Richard M. Fulrath Award – The American Ceramic Society (2019)
Granted US Patents 📜
Process for Remediation of Plastic Waste – US 8,153,094Autogenic Pressure Reactions for Battery Materials Manufacture – US 8,568,914Materials as Additives for Advanced Lubrication – US 08,648,019Process for Remediation of Plastic Waste – US 8,580,222Autogenic Reaction Synthesis of Photocatalysts for Solar Fuel Generation – US 9314770 B2Materials as Additives for Advanced Lubrication – US 9,441,178 B2Ultrasound Assisted In-situ Formation of Carbon/Sulfur Cathodes – US 9748572Solid Lubricant and Method of Making the Same – US 10787624Lubricants Comprising Carbon Particles and Methods of Making the Same – US 10913914Methods of Making Electrodes, Electrodes Made Therefrom, and Electrochemical Energy Storage Cells Utilizing the Electrodes – US 10910649Methods of Making Electrodes, Electrodes Made Therefrom, and Electrochemical Energy Storage Cells Utilizing the Electrodes – US 10333145Methods of Making Electrodes, Electrodes Made Therefrom, and Electrochemical Energy Storage Cells Utilizing the Electrodes – US 11050058Arrangement for Lithium-ion Battery Thermal Events Prediction, Prevention, and Control – US 11431040
Professional Experience 🧑🏫
August 2020 – Present: Professor, Davidson School of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA 2018 – 2023: Purdue Faculty Scholar 🏆 Jan. 2014 – July 2020: Associate Professor, Davidson School of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University July 2017 – Present: Adjunct Professor, Metallurgy Engineering and Material Science Department, Indian Institute of Technology, Indore, India 🇮🇳 Oct. 2013 – Dec. 2013: Visiting Faculty, International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Tsukuba, Japan 🇯🇵 July 2010 – Sept. 2013: Materials Scientist, Lithium Battery Materials Group, Electrochemical Energy Storage Department, Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), IL, USA 🔋 July 2008 – June 2010: Argonne Scholar (Advisor: Dr. M. M. Thackeray), ANL, USA 🎓 Jan. 2007 – June 2008: Postdoctoral Appointee (Advisor: Dr. P. Thiyagarajan), Intense Pulsed Neutron Source, ANL, USA 🔬 Jan. 2005 – Dec. 2006: Postdoctoral Fellow in Dye Sensitized Solar Cells (Advisor: Prof. Arie Zaban), Bar-Ilan Institute of Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials, Israel ☀️