• Gender: Male
• Age: 44
• Designation: Department Head
• Highest Education Level: Doctrate
• Preferred Country: India
• Notice Period: 30  Days
• Work Experience: 21.5 Year(s)

Education

PhD (Chemical Sciences) From University of Pisa, Italy in 2010

M.Sc. (Specialization in Physical Chemistry) From Institute Of Science, Institute Of Science, Mumbai in 2004 With 55%

B.Sc. (Chemistry) From ASC College, Pen in 2001 With 69%

H.S.C From ASC College, Pen in 1998 With 57%

S.S.C From Gadhinglaj High School, Kolhapur in 1997 With 69%

Skill Sets

Experience in synthesis, characterization and application of Metallopolymers and
metal complexes for LED applications.
Fabrication and characterization of Organic Photovoltaic Devices.
Experience in the field of designing and development of electrochemical sensors.

Qualified Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) 2004, Score: 82.95 %, All India Rank: 599
Completed Road Safety Patrol Course (Duration 2 years)
Coursework finished “Intellectual Property Rights Fundamentals” organized by IPR cell, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India (August 11- November 03, 2012).
Recipient of a computer diploma in “Advance Certificate course in PC’s Application” from National Institute of information Technology. Recipient of a full fee waiver scholarship for outstanding performance for the same.
Completed the “Certificate Course in Computer Programming” from the government recognized institute.

Work Experience

Post - Doctoral Fellow
Since Jan 2014
Company Profile: Institute of Molecular Science and Technologies
Job Profile:
Current research topic: “Synthesis of molecules for Organic and Hybrid photovoltaics.”

Research Scientist
June 2012 to February  2013
Company Profile: A Leading Public Engineering Institute
Job Profile:
Worked on the sponsored project Feasibility of 10 m/ min Cu plating on thin PVD Seed Layers
Designed Customized Electro-spinning Setup.

Scientist
Sept 2011 to May 2012
Company Name: Polymeric Sensors Pvt. Ltd.
Company Profile: is an incubation start-up company at IIT Bombay and worked in the sector of development of water and Soil testing devices
Job Profile:
As a head of the Research and development team and marketing head, my responsibilities were to design and develop new sensors and array of sensors based on receptors and also managed the production and marketing units.
Worked as an early stage entrepreneur as well and involved in the area where actual laboratory work is being taken to industrial level.
Designed and produced variety of multi-array screen-printed ion-selective electrodes for simultaneous detection of analytes.
Developed a single hand-held device which is capable of simultaneous detection of Potassium, Nitrate, Phosphate, Chloride, Salinity, pH, Conductance and Total dissolved Solids (TDS) present in water and soil samples.
Worked with Industrial designing centre on product designing

Post-doctoral fellow
July 2010 to July 2011
Company Name:Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry,
Job Profile:
Worked with Prof. Josef Michl on synthesis and characterization of [-CA(-)=CH-]n nM(+) by
polymerization of anion substituted acetylene, [HC=C(CH2)4-CB11Cl11]- Cs+. The twelvevertex
carborane anion CB11Cl11(-), attached to the polyacetylene chain through the carbon
atom in position 1 of the cage, meet the requirement imposed on A(-). Appropriately substituted, they are extremely difficult to oxidize and are so weakly nucleophilic that they happily coexist with simple carbonation. Because these anions are so weakly coordinating, they are also likely to allow the release of a metal counter ion during oxidative doping. The work is still under progress and newly synthesized polymer can be used for photovoltaic
applications.

Research Assistant
March 2010 to June 2010
Company Name: Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale
Job Profile:
Worked as a research assistant with Prof. Giacomo Ruggeri, University of Pisa, on the project titled Synthesis of polymerizable group bearing liquid crystalline oligomers.
Mostly involved in the synthesis of derivatives of Perylene.

Visiting research student
March 2009 to August 2009
Company Name: Cavendish Laboratory,
Job Profile:
Worked on the topic Synthesis of Organic Photo voltaic Devices by electro chemical and spin-coating technique of newly developed polymers and their characterization under guidance of Dr. Chris McNeill.

PhD Student
January 2007 to December 2009
Company Name: Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale,
Job Profile:
Ph.D. topic Photovoltaic properties of thiophene-based polymers and synthesis of polymeric materials containing tri-or hexa-nuclear platinum clusters as structural components”
Supervisor: Prof. Giacomo Ruggeri, External Supervisor: Dr. Chris McNeill.

Research Fellow
January 2006 to December 2006
Company Name: Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale,
Job Profile:
Worked as a research fellow on the project titled New macro molecular systems for application as responsive materials and sensors

Collaborator
Sept 2005 to Dec 2005
Company Name:Indian Institute of Technology,
Job Profile:
Worked in collaboration to design and produce screen-printed electrodes for potentiometric
sensory applications. Successfully designed and developed variety of miniaturized electrodes.
Involved in characterization of Polyaniline based actuators project.

Scientific co-worker
July 2005 to August 2005
Company Name:Technical University of Chemnitz,
Job Profile:
Worked on the topic “Development of sensor for simultaneous determination of Ca2+ and Mg2+ ions present in the waste water” These Ionosphere based sensors were characterized by electro chemical impedance analyzer. This research was focused on finding long-term stability of ion-selective membranes and influence of interfering ions on the
membrane conductance.

Research Assistant
June 2003 to June 2005
Company Name: Indian Institute of Technology,
Job Profile:
Worked on a project titled “Sensor based on Conducting Polymer”. A hand held sensors assembly (including the transducer and corresponding electronic system) was developed for the monitoring pH of water, and mercury and potassium ions present in water. The device was based on receptor (cryptand-222, 18-crown-6) immobilized in the polyaniline matrix, bridged across an electrode pair. Binding of potassium ions or mercury ions with receptor molecules changes the local conformation leading to a change in the conductivity of the
polymer. Apart from the development of water quality measurement sensors assembly, I worked on enzyme based sensors for the detection of glucose and urea. The enzyme-catalyzed action of the bio-substrate in the analyse, changes the pH of the micro environment, and hence the conductivity of the polymer.

Publications, Presentations, Projects, Conferences, Seminars
Publication- C. Muthukumar, Sagar D. Kesarkar, Divesh N. Srivastava, “Conductometric
mercury [II] sensor based on Polyaniline– cryptand-222 hybrid” Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry, 602 (2007)172–180 (doi:10.1016/j. jelechem. 2006. 12. 015)
Oral presentation- “Sensor for water quality- from Science and Technology towards a product” is presented in the 2nd In House Symposium on Materials Research (MR05)organized by metallurgical engineering and materials and corrosion science engineering department, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay and received the best oral
presentation award (February 26, 2005).
Participated in “Summer School on Metal Clusters and Surfaces” Tirrenia- Pisa, Italy (July 3-6, 2006).
Poster presented- “Synthesis and characterization of p-conjugated polymers containing tri- and hexa-nuclear Platinum clusters” is presented in the 23rd International Conference on Organometallic Chemistry (ICOMC 2008), Rennes, France (July 13-18, 2008)
Poster presented- “Electrochemical study of Poly(3-Bromothiophene-co-3- Hexylthiophene), and Nanomorphology investigation of Copolymer/Fullerene BulkHeterojunction Solar Cell” is presented in the 2
nd Bangalore Nano conference, Bangalore, India. (December 11- 13, 2008)
Participated in “The 2009 CUEN Annual Energy Conference - Solar Power: Lighting the way towards a sustainable future”. University of Cambridge, UK (June 22, 2009) Participated in “The Interdiscipli- nary Graduate Conference (IGC09)” University of Cambridge, UK. (June 25-26, 2009)
“Comb-like Polyacetylene with Pendant [CB11Cl11]- Anions” (manuscript under preparation)
Thesis Supervisor- Title of the thesis- “Development of sensor for detection of total hardness in drinking water” is submitted at the University of Mumbai by Ms. Ankita Joshi.
Participated in “Nuovi Orientamenti nella Sintesi Organica (New Orientations in Organic Synthesis)” workshop. University of Milan, Italy. (November 24, 2014)
Poster presentation- “Engineering Subphthalocyanine dyes for DSSC applications” is presented in the Italian Photochemistry Meeting 2014, Milan, Italy. (November 27- 29, 2014)
Poster presentation- “Near infrared emitting Ir(III) complexes with engineered ancillary ligands: structure - property-performance” is presented in the 13th European Conference on Molecular Electronics (ECME), University of Strasbourg, France (September 1-5, 2015)
Poster presentation- “Effects of beta-diketonate ancillary ligands on the electronic properties of cyclometalated Ir(III) complexes: synthesis, electrochemical and spectroscopic investigations” is presented in the Chemistry, Materials and Light 2015
(CM&L 2015), Bologna, Italy. (September 21-23, 2015)
Participated in “Nuovi Orientamenti nella Sintesi Organica (New Orientations in Organic Synthesis)” workshop. University of Milan, Italy. (November 30, 2015)
Oral presentation: “Tuning the electronic properties of cyclometalated Ir(III) complexes: synthesis, electrochemical and spectroscopic investigations” is
presented in the Italian Photochemistry Meeting (GIF 2015), Bologna, Italy. (December 17-19, 2015)
Publication- Sagar Kesarkar, Wojciech Mróz, Marta Penconi, Mariacecilia Pasini, Silvia Destri, Marco Cazzaniga, Davide Ceresoli, Patrizia R. Mussini, Clara Baldoli, Umberto Giovanella and Alberto Bossi, “Near-IR Emitting Ir(III) Complexes with Heteroaromatic.
Diketonate Ancillary Ligands for Efficient Solution Processed OLEDs: StructureProperty Correlations” (Accepted in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.).

Future Goals

Growth