Advanced Catalysis for Drop-in Chemicals

Dr. Putla Sudarsanam is a Scientist at the Catalysis Division, CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, Maharashtra, India. He obtained his PhD in Chemistry, 2015 from CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad, Telangana, India. He has published about 55 peer-reviewed journal articles and 4 book chapters (Citations: 2150 and H-index: 30). His research mainly focuses on developing advanced solid catalysts for biomass valorization, CO2-to-chemicals conversion, and environmental catalysis. He has been honored for his outstanding contributions with numerous prestigious awards/fellowships, including Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship-2016 (Belgium), Leibniz-DAAD Postdoc Fellowship-2016 (Germany), Best PhD Thesis Award-2015 (The Catalysis Society of India), EuropaCat PhD Student Award-2013 (XIth European Congress on Catalysis, France), and Endeavour Research Fellowship-2013 (Australia). Hu Li is currently associate Professor at Center for R&D of Fine Chemicals, Guizhou University (GZU), China. He worked as a postdoctoral fellow with a research topic on biomass upgrading at Tohoku University (Japan) and Nanjing Agricultural University (China) under supervision of Prof. R. L. Smith and Prof. Z. Fang, respectively. His research focuses on the catalytic conversion of biomass into chemicals and biofuels with functional catalytic materials. Dr. Li has more than 60 peer-reviewed papers (H-index 16), 6 patents, 1 co-edited Springer book and 2 book chapters on biomass valorization. He is a guest editor of Current Organic Chemistry, and recently was award by the Fok Ying-Tong Education Foundation, Ministry of Education (2018).

• 1. Carbohydrates to drop-in chemicals 2. Drop-in plastics 3. Catalytic conversion of acrolein and acrylic acid drop-ins for added-value chemicals 4. Single-atom catalysts for biomass-derived drop-in chemicals 5. Selective hydrogenation of furanic compounds derived from sugars 6. Heterogeneous heteropolyacid-based catalysts for hydrolysis of cellulosic biomass 7. Production of biodiesel with metal-oxide-based catalysts 8. Production of γ-valerolactone and furfuryl alcohol: Using catalytic transfer hydrogenation as a tool 9. Catalysis for bio-BTX (benzene, toluene and xylene) synthesis 10. Multiscale modelling studies for exploring lignocellulosic biomass structure 11. Solid catalysts for furfuryl alcohol conversion to drop-in chemicals