plastemartjobs.com Email: jobs@plastemart.com, hr@plastemart.com Download Date: 2/5/2025 11:26:33 PM ________________________________________________________________________________________ RefNo: CA - 21545 Gender: Male Age: 42 Designation: Department Head Highest Education Level: Doctrate Notice Period: 30 Days Education Details: Ph.D. in Chemistry in 2015 Diploma in Research and Development From Indian Institutes of Management & Technology in 2008 M.Sc in Organic Chemistry From?Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj, Nagpur University in 2006 B.Sc in Chemical Science and Biological Science From?Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj, Nagpur University in 2004 Work Experience: 19.4 Work Experience Details: Post Doctoral Fellow: Since Sep 2013 Research Associate: Apr 2013 to Oct 2013 Company Profile:?Is a research, development and consulting organisation with a focus on chemistry and chemical engineering. Job Profile: Computational and Experimental Study of Molecularly Imprinted Capped Fluorescent Gold Nanoclusters for In-Situ Detection of Emerging Environmental Toxins. Research Associate Apr 2013 to Oct 2013 Job Profile:? New materials for hydrogen powered mobile applications Senior Research Fellow Apr 2010 to Dec 2012 Company Profile:?Leading Research institute Job Profile : Combinatorial Design and Synthesis of?High Performance MIP Sensing Material for?Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons Junior Research Fellow Nov 2006 to Mar 2010 Company Name:?National Environmental Engineering Research?Institute Job Profile: Molecular Design and Synthesis of High Performance Novel Materials, Grant-in-aid by planning commission of India Honors 2013-2015: Nehru Postdoctoral Fellowship Award form Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) for design and development of portable fluorescent molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs) sensors for environmental toxins. 2010-2012: Senior Research Fellowship (SRF) Award from Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India for contributions in the field of Environmental Molecular Science and application of MIPs in environmental sensing and remediation. 2010: Best Paper award from National Environmental Engineering Research Institute,(NEERI), Nagpur. 2009: First prize on poster presentation titled Computational predictions to study recognition property of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon imprinted polymer, at International Conference on Nanobiomaterials for Environmental Application (ICNEA-2009) organized by National Environmental Engineering Research Institute, (NEERI), Nagpur. Skills Strong knowledge and research experience in Polymeric nanopous materials, proficient in preparation, characterization and evaluation of nanopous sensing materials Strong background in in-situ design, fabrication and characterization of goldnanoclusters/nanoparicles; Experience in the Synthesis of Molecularly Imprinted Polymers (MIPs) using different polymerization approaches / organic synthesis Materials Characterization: The following instruments were used for materials characterization/analysis Gas Chromatography- 2010 (SIMADZU)/ Clarus-500 (PERKIN ELMER) GC/MS- Straurn40 (VARIAN) HPLC- Smartline 5000 (KNAUER) FTIR Spectrometer- Vertex 70 (BRUKER) Fluorescence Spectrophotometers- F 4500 (HITACHI JERN) SEM ? JSM-6400 (JEOL MODEL) N2 Porosimetry TG-DSC AFM Raman spectrum and ultrahigh vacuum (UHV) techniques And other small instrument relevant for materials characterization and analysis Computer Simulations / Modeling Software ChemDraw Ultra - 10.0 HyperChem Release - 8.0 Molden Gaussian 03 and 09, GaussVeiw 4.1 and 5.9 VASP Good abilities in search, tidying up and writing literatures for research including English documents; Excellent abilities in manipulating computers; Excellent interpersonal and communication skills Publications Reddithota J Krupadam and Sourav Pal, Rational design and synthesis of dioxins imprinted polymer by non-covalent protocol based on computational approach, Journal of Biosensors & Bioelectronics, 2014, accepted. Sourav Pal and Reddithota J Krupadam, Computational Strategies For Understanding The Nature Of Interaction In Dioxin Imprinted Nanoporous Trappers, Journal of Molecular Recognition, 2015, 28: 427?437 Khan MS, Krupadam RJ, Density field theory approach to design multi-template imprinted polymers for carcinogenic PAHs sensing. Combinatorial chemistry & high throughput screening, 2013, 16(9), 682-94 Prateek S. Wate, Reddithota J. Krupadam. Combinatorial screening of polymer precursors for preparation of benzo[a] pyrene imprinted polymer: an ab Initio computational approach, Journal of Molecular Modeling. 2012, 18 (5), 1969-1981 Reddithota J. Krupadam, Bhagyashree Bhagat, Muntazir S. Khan, Highly sensitive?determination of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in ambient air dust by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry after molecularly imprinted polymer extraction, Analytical Bioanalytical Chemistry. 2010, 397, 3097-3106 Reddithota J. Krupadam, Muntazir S. Khan, Satish R. Wate, Removal of probable human carcinogenic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons from contaminated water using molecularly imprinted polymer, Water Research, 2010, 44, 681-688 Reddithota J. Krupadam, Muntazir S. Khan, Sera. Das, Adsorption of fluoride from water by surface-functionalized polyurethane foam Water Science Technology, 2010, 62(4), 759-765 Reddithota J. Krupadam, Bhagyashree Bhagat, Muntazir S. Khan, Prateek S. Wate,?Molecularly imprinted nanoporous polyacrylate surface for benzo (alpha) pyrene?recognition, J Nanoscience Nanotechnology. 2009, 9 (9), 5441-5447 Conferences/ Seminars Attended Reddithota J. Krupadam, Satish R. Wate, ?Binding site heterogeneity of nanopatterned molecularly imprinted polymer?, International Conference on Composites / Nano Engineering (ICCE-2007) July 15-21, Haikou, China. Reddithota J. Krupadam, Bhagyashree Bhagat, Prateek S. Wate, ?Molecularly imprinted nanoporous polyacrylate surface for Benzo (a) pyrene recognition? International Conference on Nano science and Technology, (ICONSAT- 2008), February 27-29, Chennai, India Reddithota J. Krupadam, Shrimant Kagne, Satish R. Wate, ?Computational predictions to study recognition property of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon imprinted polymer at International Conference on Nanobiomaterials for Environmental Application? International Conference on Nanobiomaterials for Environmental Applications (ICNEA-2009), December 07-08, National Environmental Engineering Research Institute, (NEERI), Nagpur, India Awarded First Prize for best research work. Sourav Pal, ?Rational design and synthesis of dioxins imprinted polymer by non-covalent protocol based on computational approach?, Winter School- 2013 on Frontiers in Materials Science, December 2-6, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Bangalore-560 064, India Reddithota J Krupadam, Sourav Pal, ?Density Functional Theory?Approach for design and synthesis of dioxins imprinted polymer? Indo-UK seminar on?"Molecular Imprinting: Strategies, Applications and Future Perspectives, February 05-07, 2014, National Environmental Engineering Research Institute, (NEERI), Nagpur, India Reddithota J Krupadam, Sourav Pal, ?Computationally Designed?Molecularly Imprinted Nanoporous Trappers For Endocrine Descriptor (EDCs)?, International Conference on Nano Science & Engineering Application (ICONSEA-2014) Centre For Nano Science and Technology, 26th - 28th June 2014, Jawaharlal Nehru?Technological University Hyderabad, India Reddithota J. Krupadam, Sourav Pal. A novel rational approach for molecularly imprinted nanoporous polymeric materials. 06 to 10 December 2015, 4TH NANOTODAY Conference in Dubai, UAE. Research Interest Computational Chemistry/ Computer Simulation and Molecular Modeling Molecularly imprinted labeled Quantum Clusters Environmental Molecular Science Investigation of surface chemistry of nanoporous imprinted polymeric materials in situ fabricated, and their interaction with substrates using computational approaches. Morphologically or dimension-ally controlled preparation, characterization and application of novel nanoporous imprinted sensory materials. Design of gold nanocluster-based composite nanostructures and exploring their applications in environmental monitoring, electrochemistry, nanoscale electronic devices. Development and realization of new high efficiency and low cost material for air and water remediation Among my major scientific achievements are: Environmental Materials The use of computational tools as a general method for the rational design of Molecularly Imprinted Polymers (MIPs). Design and development of polymers for the detection, separation and purification for environmental pollutants (both natural and man-made) and toxins such as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, dioxins and furans and pesticides. Design, characterization and optimization of polymer materials that mimic the?selective molecular binding properties of biological macromolecules using molecular?imprinting. Developing new methodologies for molecular imprinting in formats suitable for?practical application (beads, films, nanoparticles) Multi-template MIP sorbents for oil spill toxins detection Application of MIPs in the development of sensors for the detection of toxic?pollutants in the environmental matrix Computational Materials Chemistry Combinatorial and high throughput discovery and optimization of molecular?imprinting. Building electronic materials from molecular subunits, both organic and inorganic, using a variety of techniques to rationally design the desired sensing and molecular?recognition properties. Application of ab initio quantum mechanics, density functional theory, Monte Carlo?simulations, QM/MM calculations to design new class materials for environmental?sensing and remediation. Prediction of secondary pollutants formation in the atmosphere using molecular?modeling and simulations Scientific and Professional Memberships Member, American Chemical Society Member, Society of Molecular Imprinting Member, Asia-Pacific Chemical, Biological& Environmental Engineering Society Future Goals: Growth ________________________________________________________________________________________