About Me
Dr. Sudarsanam Putla is a Scientist at the Catalysis and Inorganic Chemistry Division, CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory (CSIR-NCL), Pune, India. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Chemistry (2015) from the CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (Hyderabad, India). Before joining CSIR-NCL, he worked as a post-doctoral fellow at KU Leuven (Belgium, 2017-2019), Leibniz Institute for Catalysis (LIKAT, Germany, 2017), and RMIT University (Melbourne, 2014–2016). His research focuses on developing industrially sustainable catalytic processes for biomass valorization, CO2-to-chemcials, and synthesis of active pharmaceutical ingredients. He has been honored for his innovative contributions with many prestigious awards/fellowships, including Young Scientist Award to participate at the 67th Nobel Laureate Meeting-2017 (Germany), Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoc Fellowship-2017 (Belgium), Leibniz-DAAD Postdoc Fellowship-2016 (Germany), Best Ph.D. Thesis Award-2015 (The Catalysis Society of India), EuropaCat Ph.D. Student Award-2013 (XIth European Congress on Catalysis, France), Best Senior Research Fellow Award-2013 (CSIR-IICT, Hyderabad), and Endeavour Research Fellowship-2013 (Australia). He has edited three books (ACS and Elsevier), and published 58 peer-reviewed articles in high impact international journals and 4 book chapters with an h-index of 31 and more than 2300 citations.