Lingaiah N

Biography

Dr. N. Lingaiah is at present a Scientist at the Department of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry of the Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT), Hyderabad. He did his Ph.D work at IICT, Hyderabad and obtained doctoral degree from Osmania University, Hyderabad in 1995. He was then postdoctoral fellow at different places in various counties. First he was worked as post doc at Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology (KRICT), Taejon, South Korea for a year from July 1996 to June1997. Later spent more than two years at Okayama University, Okayama, Japan as post-doctoral fellow. After that he moved to The Queens University of Belfast, UK as post-doc for two years assignment. During this period he got a scientist position at IICT and came back to India after one-year period in UK in September 2001. He spent about four years as post-doctoral fellow in Korea, Japan and UK. He was also visited as a visiting scientist at Advanced Catalysis Laboratory, Berlin, Germany.

Research Interest

Synthesis, characterization and evaluation of various supported and unsupported heteropoly acids, Synthesis of biodiesel and value addition to glycerol, Catalytic conversion of biomass.