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PEDDIREDDY KARTHIK REDDY

peddireddyp@gmail.com

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Doctor of Philosophy in Physics 

  • Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Goettingen, Germany

  • Liquid crystals, surfactants, interfacial science and optics

  • Magna Cum Laude (certificate)

• Master of Engineering in Chemical Engineering and Colloids, Polymers and Surfaces

  • Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), Pittsburgh, USA 

  • Cumulative GPA: 3.85/4 (Link)

• Bachelor of Technology  in Chemical Engineering

  • Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Guwahati, India 

  • Cumulative Performance Index = 8.02 / 10

  • Catalytic Pyrolysis of Waste Plastics (Dissertation Link)

WORK EXPERIENCE

• Visiting Professor, University of San Diego, San Diego, USA ( 2018 - Present)

  • Mapping molecular-level dynamics to mesoscale mechanics in composite DNA-based biomaterials (Presentation)

  • PI-  Dr. Rae Anderson

• Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, USA ( 2016 - 2017)

  • Microscopic investigation of cellulose producing bacteria and relevant enzymes (Presentation)

  • Guides-  Prof. Ivan Smalyukh

• Postdoctoral Researcher, Biopolymers – Interactions – Assemblages (BIA) unit, INRA, Nantes, France (September 2014 - September 2016) (Presentation)

  • Cellulose nanocrystals based water in water Pickering emulsions

  • Guides-  Dr. Isabelle Capron

• Doctoral candidate, Max-Planc Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen, Germany (Jan 2010- July 2014) 

  • Thesis- "Thermotropic Liquid Crystals in Aqueous Ionic Micellar Solutions: Interfacial Instabilities & Optical Applications". Phd Thesis Thesis Defense

  • Guides- Dr. Christian Bahr and Prof. Stephan Herminghaus. 

• Research Staff, Chemical Engineering Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA (Aug - Dec 2009)

  • “ Copper Deposition and Growth over ZnO Nonpolar (100) and (110) Surfaces: A DFT Study”

    • Guide :   Dr. Aravind Asthagiri, Chemical Engineering, University of Florida

    •  “ Effect of PEG on the phase behaviour of Water/Alkane/AOT microemulsions”

    • Guides :   Dr.Jurgen Allgaier and Prof.Dr.Dieter Ritcher, IFF 5-Nuetron Scattering

  • Invited Research Intern, IIT Madras, Chennai, India (May – July 2006) 

    • “ Viscometric studies of expanded polystyrene and limonene system” (Link)

    • Guides:   Prof. Dr. Susy Varughese and Prof. Abhijith Deshpande , High polymer Engineering Laboratory (HPEL), Chemical Engineering Department

PUBLICATIONS

• •  Karthik Reddy P.,  Megan L., Charles M. S., Rae M. A, "Viscoelastic Properties of Ring-Linear DNA Blends Exhibit Non-monotonic Dependence on Blend Composition  ", Physical Review Research (accepted)

•  Karthik Reddy P.,  Megan L., Yuecheng Z.,, Serenity A., Sylas M., Charles M. S., Rae M. A, "Unexpected Entanglement Dynamics in Semidilute Blends of Supercoiled and Ring DNA", Softmatter, 16 (2020), 152-161. (Link)

• Sylas A.,  Christelle M., Jonathan G., Karthik Reddy P., Rae M. A., Ryan M., "Filament Rigidity Vies with Mesh Size in Determining Anomalous Diffusion in Cytoskeleton", Biomacromolecules, 20 (2019), 4380-4388. (Link)

• Robert F.,  Davide M., Karthik Reddy P., Cole H., Carl K.,  Bekele J. G., Rae M. A., "Synergistic Interactions between DNA and Actin Trigger Emergent Viscoelastic Behavior'", Physical Review Letters, 121 (2018), 257801. (Link)

• Joshua D. C.,  Qingkun L., Bohdan S., Allister W. F., Karthik Reddy P., Ivan S., "Cellulose-Based Reflective Liquid Crystal Films as Optical Filters and Solar Gain Regulators", ACS Photonics, 5 (2018), 2468-2477. (Link)

• Karthik Reddy P., Nicolai T., Benyahia L., Capron I., “Gelation Kinetics and Network Structure of Cellulos

•   Nanocrystals in Aqueous Solution”, Biomacromolecules, 17 (10) (2016), 3298-3304. (Link)

• Karthik Reddy P., Nicolai T., Benyahia L., Capron I., "Stabilization of Water in Water Emulsions by Nano-rods", ACS Macro Letters, 5 (2016), 283-286. (Link)

• Karthik Reddy P., Jampani V. S. R.,  Herminghaus S., Bahr Ch., Marusa V., Musevic I., “Lasing and waveguiding in smectic-A liquid crystal optical fibers”, Proc. SPIE 9182, Liquid Crystals XVIII, 91820Y. (Link)

• Karthik Reddy P., Jampani V.S.R., Thutupalli S., Herminghaus S., Bahr Ch., Musevic I., "Lasing and waveguiding in smectic A liquid crystal optical fibers", Optics Express, 21 (25) (2013), 30233-30242. (Link) selected for Research highlights in Nature photonics (pdf); and Spotlight on Optics.

• Karthik Reddy P., Kumar P., Thutupalli S., Herminghaus S., Bahr Ch., "Myelin structures formed by thermotropic smectic liquid crystals", Langmuir, 29 (50) (2013), 15682-15688. (Link)

• Karthik Reddy P., Kumar P., Thutupalli S., Herminghaus S., Bahr Ch., "Solubilization of Thermotropic Liquid Crystal Compounds in Aqueous Surfactant Solutions", Langmuir, 28 (34) (2012), 12426-12431. (Link)

  • Karthik Reddy P., Prashant J. Gautam, Dilip K. Singh, A. K. Ghoshal, Parameswar K. Iyer " Mechanistic Investigation, Kinetic Modeling and Analysis Parameters of Poly(3-hexylthiphene) Degradation to Fullerenes", Polymer Degradation and Stability, 94 (10) (2009), 1839- 1848. (Link)

  • Saha B., Karthik Reddy P., Ghoshal. A.K., “Hybrid Genetic Algorithm to Find the Best Model and the Globally Optimized Overall Kinetics Parameters for Thermal Decomposition of Plastics”, Chemical Engineering Journal, 138 (1-3) (2008), 20-29. (Link)

  • Karthik Reddy P., Chowlu A.C., Ghoshal. A. K., “Hybrid Genetic Algorithm and Model-Free Coupled Direct Search Methods for Kinetics of Nano Crystalline ZSM-5 Catalyzed Decomposition of Polypropylene (PP)”, Applied Catalysis A: General,  351 (2) (2008), 195-203. (Link)

  • Saha B., Karthik Reddy P., Chowlu A.C., Ghoshal A.K., “Model-free Kinetic Analysis of n-HZSM-5 Catalyzed Pyrolysis of Polypropylene (PP)”, Thermochimica Acta, 468 (1-2) (2008), 94-100. (Link)

  • Chowlu A.C., Karthik Reddy P., Ghoshal A. K. ,“ Pyrolytic Decomposition and Model-Free Kinetics Analysis of Mixture of Polypropylene (PP) and Low Density Polyethylene (LDPE) ”, Thermochimica Acta, 485 (1-2) (2009), 20-25. (Link)

  • Saha B., Chowlu A.C., Karthik Reddy P., Ghoshal A.K., “Effect of Aluminium Content in Al-MCM-41 Catalyst on Decomposition of Low Density Polyethylene”, International Journal of chemical sciences,5 (4)  (2007), 1552-1560. (Link)

CONFERENCES

• • Dew B., Przybycien T.M., Garoff S., Tilton R.D., Karthik Reddy P., "Surfactant Formulation Principles for Self-Dispersing Aerosol Drug Carriers Based On Marangoni Flow in the Pulmonary Airways", AIChE annual meeting (2009) - oral/conference proceedings paper 

  • Saha B., Chowlu A.C., Karthik Reddy P., Ghoshal A.K., “Effect of Aluminum Content in Al-MCM-41 Catalyst on Decomposition of Low Density Polyethylene”, NCFCE (2008) – Oral

  • Karthik Reddy P., Allgaier J., "Effect of PEG and Salt Concentration on the Phase Behavior of Water/Alkane/AOT Microemulsions", NCFCE (2008) – Poster

  • Karthik Reddy P., Varughese S., "Viscometric Studies of Expanded Polystyrene and Limonene System", CHEMCON, (2007) – Poster

UNDERGRADUATE THESIS

• • P.Karthik Reddy, “Catalytic Pyrolysis of Waste Plastics”,Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati, Thesis Advisor - Prof. Aloke Kumar Ghoshal, INDIA, August 2007 – 2008. (Link)

MAJOR PROJECTS

• • Copper Deposition and Growth over ZnO Nonpolar (100) and (110) Surfaces : A DFT Study

    • Supervisor:  Dr. Aravind Asthagiri, Chemical Engineering Department, University of Florida, USA

  • Marangoni driven flow of surfactant solutions on mucin solutions (2008-2009) Report

    • Supervisors: Prof. Robert D. Tilton, ChemicalEngineering, Prof. Stephen Garrof , Physics, CMU

  • Thermal and Catalytic Pyrolysis Kinetics of Waste Plastics (2006 – Till date)  (Links:

    • Supervisor:  Dr.A.K.Ghoshal,HOD, Chemical Engineering Department,IIT Guwahati, India

  • Effect of PEG on the Phase Behaviour of the Water/Alkane/AOT Microemulsions (2007)

    • Supervisors: Dr.Jurgen Allgaier and Prof.Dr.Dieter ritcher,IFF-NST forschungszentrum, Juelich,Germany  (Links: 1   2  3 )

  • Thermal degradation study of Poly (3-hexyl thiopene) (2007)

    • Supervisor:  Dr.Parameshwar Iyer ,Chemistry Department, IIT Guwahati, India

  • Viscometric studies of expanded polystyrene and limonene system (2006)

    • Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Susy Varughese & Prof. Abhijith Deshpande ,High polymer Engineering Laboratory (HPEL), Chemical Engineering Department,IIT Chennai, India

  • Numerical analysis of adsorption in packed bed column using OCFE method (2006)

    • Supervisor:  Dr.Sasidhar Gumma, Chemical Engineering Department,IIT Guwahati, India

  • Study on Methonol/Ethanol electro-oxidation reaction mechanism in alkaline medium using cyclic voltametry (2006)

    • Supervisor:  Dr.Dr.Anil Verma, Chemical Engineering Department,IIT Guwahati, India

  • Numerical analysis on  cooling of an injection-molded slab of HDPE (2005)

  • Supervisor:  Dr.Pallab Ghosh, Chemical Engineering Department,IIT Guwahati, India

TECHNICAL REPORTS & PRESENTATION

• A new approach to Modeling the Effective Thermal Conductivity of Heterogeneous Materials (2009)

  • • Supervisor:  Prof. M. Jhon, Chemical Engineering Department,CMU , Pittsburgh, USA   (Link)

• • Flory-Huggins interaction parameter- a review (2008) (Link)

    • Supervisor:  Prof. Lynn Walker, Chemical Engineering Department,CMU , Pittsburgh, USA

  • Purification and separation of carbon nanotubes (2008) (Link1 Link2)

    • Supervisor:  Dr. Mohammad Islam, Chemical Engineering Department,CMU , Pittsburgh, USA

  • A review on preparation and applications of polymer nanocomposite membranes(2008) (Link)

    • Supervisor:  Dr. K. Mohanty , Chemical Engineering Department,IIT Guwahati, India

  • Production of ethylene (2008)

    • Supervisor:  Dr.Pugazhenthi, Chemical Engineering Department,IIT Guwahati, India

  • Analysis of separation of n-Heptane, Toluene and Methanol using Chemsep (2007) (Link)

    • Supervisor:  Dr.Ramgopalu Uppaluri, Chemical Engineering Department,IIT Guwahati, India

  • The effect of various parameters involved in packed bed reactor used for a selected reaction scheme using polymath (2007)

    • Supervisor:  Dr.Ramgopalu Uppaluri, Chemical Engineering Department,IIT Guwahati, India

  • Catalytic pyrolysis kinetics of waste plastics (Submitted for seminar course) (2007)

    • Supervisor:  Dr. A.K. Ghoshal, Chemical Engineering Department,IIT Guwahati, India

  • Heat Exchanger Network design for a problem containing 4 hot streams and 5 cold streams using THEN software (2007) (Link)

    • Supervisor:  Dr.Ramgopalu Uppaluri, Chemical Engineering Department,IIT Guwahati, India

  • Desulphurization of gas oil (2007) (Link)

    • Supervisor:  Dr.Pugazhenthi, Chemical Engineering Department,IIT Guwahati, India

  • Production of 10,000 L per annum of Bio-diesel from Jathropha (Feasibility Report) (2007)

    • Supervisor: Dr. M.K.Purkait, Chemical Engineering Department,IIT Guwahati, India

  • Design of an ethanol producing reactor by optimizing cost of fabrication and operation using MATLAB (2006)

    • Supervisor:  Dr.P.Saha, Chemical Engineering Department,IIT Guwahati, India

  • Design of a packed bed extraction tower by optimizing cost of fabrication and operation using MATLAB (2006)

    • Supervisor:  Dr. M.K.Purkait, Chemical Engineering Department,IIT Guwahati, India

  • Absorption in a sieve tray tower (2006) (Link1 Link2)

    • Supervisor:  Dr. A.K. Ghoshal, Chemical Engineering Department,IIT Guwahati, India

  • Thermodynamic representation of high-pressure vaponr-liqnid equilibria (2006)

    • Supervisor:  Dr. S.Gumma, Chemical Engineering Department,IIT Guwahati, India

  • Study on Dielectric behaviour (2006) (Link)

    • Supervisor:  Dr.Pugazhenthi, Chemical Engineering Department,IIT Guwahati, India

  • Study on ethyl alcohol by fermentation and starch production from maize (2006) (Link)

    • Supervisor:  Dr.Ramgopalu Uppaluri, Chemical Engineering Department,IIT Guwahati, India

  • Study on degree of mixing (2006) (Link)

    • Supervisor:  Dr.Anil Verma, Chemical Engineering Department,IIT Guwahati, India

  • Digital clock using counters and 7 segments LED display which shows hours, minutes and seconds (2005)

    • Supervisor:  Dr. C.Mahanta, ECE  Department,IIT Guwahati, India

  • Text editor in C++ (2005)

  • Supervisor:  Dr.Pinaki Mitra, CSE  Department,IIT Guwahati, India

INSTRUMENTS HANDLED

• • Invited Research Intern, IFF Juelich Research Center, Germany (May – July 2007)