Nanocatalysis for Waste-2-Wealth

Dr. Sudarsanam Putla

Research field: Heterogeneous nanocatalysis
Research areas
- - Nanosized catalysts
  - Porous catalysts
  - Plastic waste recycling
  - Biomass valorization
  - Carbon dioxide capturing
Email: sudarsanam.putla@chy.iith.ac.in
Address: Office No. 214, 2nd Floor, Department of Chemistry, IIT Hyderabad, Kandi 502284, Telangana
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=F9As-voAAAAJ&hl=en
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sp-heterocat-lab-a58627332/
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PhD positions are available (CSIR-UGC JRF/DST-Inspire fellowships)

Professional Experience

• Assistant Professor (April 2022- present), Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India

• Scientist (02/2020 – 03/2022), CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India

• Marie Curie Post-doctoral Fellow (10/2017 – 09/2019) in Prof. Bert Sels’ group

Center for Sustainable Catalysis and Engineering, KU Leuven, Leuven 3001, Belgium

• DAAD Post-doctoral Fellow (02/2017 – 09/2017) in Prof. Brueckner’s group

Leibniz Institute for Catalysis (LIKAT), Rostock 18059, Germany

• Post-doctoral Fellow (04/2014 – 12/2016) in Prof. Suresh K. Bhargava’s group

School of Science, RMIT University, Melbourne 3000, Australia

Ph.D. (Chemistry - 2015), CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad, India
M.Sc. (Chemistry - 2009), Indian Institute of Technology Madras

• 2026 - Best Faculty Research Excellence Award, IIT Hyderabad

• 2026 - Advisory Board Member of RSC Sustainable Energy & Fuels

• 2025 - RSC Nanoscale Emerging Investigator

• 2024 - Young Scientist Award from the Catalysis Society of India

• 2024 - PECFAR award, Indo-German Science & Technology Centre

• 2024 - Elected as an Associated Fellow of the Telangana Academy of Sciences

• 2022 - Early Career Board Member of Molecular Catalysis Journal (Elsevier)

• 2021 - The Australian Alumni Award, The Australian Government

• 2021 - Editorial Board Member of Applied Catalysis O: Open Journal (Elsevier)

• 2020 - Early Career Board Member of ACS SCE Journal

• 2021-2024 - Editorial Board Member of Biomass Conversion & Biorefinery Journal

• 2017 - 67th Nobel Laureate Meeting (Chemistry), Lindau, Germany

• 2017 - Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship, Belgium

• 2016 - Visiting Research Scientist, University of Malaya, Malaysia

• 2016 - Leibniz-DAAD Research Fellowship, DAAD, Germany

• 2015 - Best PhD Thesis Award, The Catalysis Society of India

• 2013 - Best Senior Research Fellow Award, CSIR-IICT (Hyderabad)

• 2013 - Australian Endeavour Research Fellowship, Australia

• 2013 - PhD Student Award, XIth European Congress on Catalysis, France

• 2012 - Young Researcher Award, ICONSAT Conference, DST-ARCI, India