Research and Industrial Experience

Sep 2021 onwards, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur.

Aug. 2019 to Jul 2021, Postdoctoral research associate, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Research work involved studying the utilization of sulfur-rich fly ashes for carbon dioxide capture and concrete applications.

Sept. 2013 to Dec. 2013, Sr. Process Design Engineer, SRF Ltd. Gurugram, Haryana.
Worked as Sr. Process Design Engineer in Chemicals Technology Group (CTG) of SRF Ltd. Worked in Technology Transfer Group and successfully executed campaign manufacture of specialty chemical used as intermediate in pharma industry.

July 2010 to Sept. 2013, Manager-Technical Services, Reliance Industries Limited, Jamnagar, Gujarat.
Team member of technical service group whose interest lies in optimization, heat integration and new project and retrofitting studies. Core of the job involve process feasibility study, process modeling & simulation and economics feasibility study.

Academic Detail

2014-19, Ph.D., Joint Ph.D. degree from IIT Bombay, India and Monash University, Australia
Thesis: Use of steel slags for CO2 capture and utilisation

2006-10, B.Tech in Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee

Awards

Naik and Rastogi Excellence in Ph.D. Thesis Award, IIT Bombay (2021)
Finalist, Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) Annual Innovation Award, UW-Madison (2020)

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Raghavendra Ragipani
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Chemical Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur,
Kanpur, UP, India - 208016
email: ragipani[at]iitk.ac.in
Office:
Room 106, Northern Labs II, IIT Kanpur
Telephone: +91-512-259-2241(Office)

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