plastemartjobs.com Email: jobs@plastemart.com, hr@plastemart.com Download Date: 4/20/2025 5:55:07 AM ________________________________________________________________________________________ RefNo: CA - 22293 Gender: Male Age: 59 Designation: Department Head Highest Education Level: Doctrate Notice Period: 30 Days Education Details: Ph.D. (Chemical Engineering) From RMIT University, Melbourne?in 2006 B.Tech. (Honours) in Chemical Engineering From?Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur?in 1987 Skill Sets: Rheologist and Material Scientist with extensive experience in research, new material development, polymer science and rheology. Hands-on experiments with analytical instrumentations. Customer focused with strong technical marketing skill. Polymer / Materials Research Skills (hands-on experience) Rheology and Polymer Processing Skills Shear rheology, Capillary viscometry, Extensional rheology, Melt strength testing. Polymer extrusion, mixing, film blowing: (twin-screw extruder, Haake mixer, vertical film line). Compounding and blending. Polymer Characterisation Techniques Morphology: XRD, SAX, SEM, TEM Physical/thermal properties - DSC, TGA, Zeta potential. Optical properties ? UV/Vis, NIR, Fluorescent Spectroscopy. Thermo-mechanical properties ? DMA/DMTA Mechanical testing- Instron tensile tester, Izod impact test. Understanding and use of advanced techniques for determination of molecular structures, including FT-IR and NMR. Nanomaterials, Materials Science and Materia Work Experience: 18.4 Work Experience Details: Lead Scientist (Analytical Technology) Since May 2015 Company Profile: Leading petrochemicals manufacturer Job Profile: Execute research projects by providing expertize on rheology. Provide solutions to internal and external stakeholders for their problem statements. Build rheology centre of excellence at SABIC Bangalore to support global customers Technical Manager (Rheology) Dec 2013 to April 2015 Company Profile: Produces high-quality measuring and analysis instruments for research and industry. Job Profile: Achievements: Developed and maintained key customer accounts Led Technical Services and Application Support Team in Rheology Responsible for post-sale customer training and support Work closely with Marketing for product branding, newsletters, new products Act Leader - Conduct big-event rheology seminars and workshops nationally Reach First - Travel throughout India and give talks to customers, both in industry and academia. Rheology Specialist Nov 2011 to Aug 2013 Company Name:?MEP Instruments Pty. Ltd. Job Profile: Achievements: Led the Anton Paar rheology and nanotechnology portfolio in Australia and New Zealand Exceeded Sales Target, both in $ terms and in number of units sold Fostered relationships with universities in Australia and New Zealand Delivered the best-ever rheology business in company?s history. Research Fellow (Nano Materials and Devices) Mar 2007 to Nov 2011 Company Name:?Rheology and Materials Processing Centre Job Profile: Achievements: Invented new materials and technology for traffic sensors for a commercially confidential project. Patent pending. Invented new technologies for design and production of new classes of polymeric and clay-based fluorescent nano-pigments. Successful synthesis of a range of novel non-leaching fluorescent pigments using these new inventions. Patent-pending technologies Post Doctoral Experience Feb 2006 to Feb 2007 Company Name:?Rheology and Materials Processing Centre, Job Profile: Research and student supervision on polymer rheology, polymer composites and blends. Phd Experience Jan 2002 to Jan 2006 PhD thesis: Rheological Behaviour of Polymer Blends with Co-continuous Nano-structure?? School of Civil & Chemical Engineering, RMIT University. (Supervisors: Dr Nhol Kao, Prof Sati Bhattacharya) Outcomes and Achievements Developed nano-structured polymer blends with co-continuous morphology, and mathematically correlated the rheology of the nano-structured polymer blends to their morphology. A number of publications arising from the PhD work. Past Industrial Experience Company: Coal India Limited (CIL), Calcutta, India. - 1987 to 2000 Positions held: Process Engineer (1987-92), Executive Engineer (1992-97), Senior Executive Engineer (1997-2000), Availability: One month notice period. 3/3 Publications and Patents Publications Journal Papers N. Kao, S.N. Bhattacharya, (2012), Modification of styrene?Vethylene/butylene?Vstyrene copolymer microstructure by polystyrene homopolymer and evolution of a cocontinuous blend morphology??, Polym. Eng. Sci., 52, 2559?V2572. N. Quazi, I. Ivanov, S. N. Bhattacharya, (2012), Dye/Clay intercalated nanopigments using commercially available non-ionic dye??, Dyes and Pigments, 93, 1512?V1518. S. Singh, A.K. Ghosh, S.N. Maiti, S. Raha, R. Gupta and S.N. Bhattacharya, (2012), ??Morphology and rheological behavior of polylactic acid/clay nanocomposites??, Polym. Sci. Eng., 52, 225?V232. N. Kao, S.N. Bhattacharya, (2010), ??Morphological characterisation and dynamic rheology of nano-structured blends of polystyrene and SEBS??, J. Polym. Eng., 30, 429-445. I. Ivanov, N. Quazi, S.N. Bhattacharya, (2009), Photo-stability of rhodamine-B/montmorillonite nanopigments in polypropylene matrix??, Appl. Clay Sci., 42, 661-666. N. Kao, S.N. Bhattacharya, (2005), ??Effect of polypropylene on the rheology of co-continuous PS/SEBS blends??, Polym. Eng. Sci., 45, 1432-1444. Conference Papers (full papers - peer reviewed) N. Kao, R. K. Gupta, and S. N. Bhattacharya, Conf. Proc., Polym. Process. Soc., 23rd Annu. Meet. (PPS-23), Salvador, (2007). N. Kao, and S. N. Bhattacharya, Conf. Proc., Mater. Process. Prop. Perform. (MP3), 3rd Int. Conf., Singapore, (2004). N. Kao, F. Cser, and S. N. Bhattacharya, Conf. Proc., Polym. Process. Soc., 19th Annu. Meet. (PPS-19), Melbourne, (2003). Patents P. Slatter, P. Beckett, M. Allan, C. Harrison. (2014), ??Traffic Sensor??, Provisional Patent Application, IP Australia, patent application no. AU2014901994. N. Quazi, S.N. Bhattacharya. (2012). ??Functional Particles??, IP Australia, patent application no. AU2011903847. S.N. Bhattacharya, I. Ivanov, N. Quazi. (2009). Nanopigments??, International Patent Application No. PCT/AU2009/001486. Future Goals: Interested in new opportunities where my skills match with the company?s long term goal ________________________________________________________________________________________