about me

About me

Name: Dr. Busupalli Balanagulu

🔴 Assistant professor, Department of Science, PDPU, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India

01 April 2019-Till date

Work done: just started, ongoing work on soft and smart materials for energy

🔴 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA, USA, June 2018-November 2018

Work done: Thorough investigation of mechanical properties of the membranes of

lipid vesicles and their behavior probed by vibrational spectroscopy

🔴 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA, June 2016-May 2018

work done: Thorough investigation of mechanical properties of the membranes of the polymer vesicles and comprehensive study of osmotically induced membrane fission in such polymer vesicles

🔴 PhD, National Chemical Laboratory (CSIR-NCL), Pune, Maharashtra, India, July 2009-May 2016

work done: Synthesized soluble metal thiolate layered compounds and studied their solution state structural characteristics in organic solvents and then used them as precursors to prepare nanoparticles and studied their properties and applications for electrochemical hydrogen generation

🔴 Project Associate, Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras), India, December 2008-June 2009

work done: Prepared, analyzed and studied fluorescence properties of platinum nanoclusters

🔴 M.Sc. in Chemistry, CGPA: 7.79 / 10, 2006 – 2008,

Sri Venkateswara University Campus, Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, India

🔴 B.Sc. in Chemistry and Biology, CGPA: 8.0 / 10, 2003 – 2006,

Sri Venkateswara Arts College, Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, India

🔴 Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Chittoor, Andhra Pradesh, India, 1996 – 2003