Ketan C. Kuperkar

Biography

Postdoctoral Research Fellowship awarded by High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), J-PARC, JAPAN under the project entitled “Hierarchical structure of soft matter induced by addition of charges” of Dr. Hideki Seto. (01/05/2012 to 30/06/2013). 2. Research Associateship awarded by Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences (BRNS), BARC - Mumbai under the scheme 2010/37C/31/BRNS and project entitled “Oil Solubilization in Block Copolymeric Micelles” of Dr. P. Bahadur. (05/03/2011 to 21/04/2012). 3. Ph.D. (Physical Chemistry) awarded on the title “Molecular interactions of Surfactant in aqueous solutions” under the supervision of Professor P. Bahadur, Department of Chemistry, Veer Narmad South Gujarat University, Surat in July 2010. 4. Direct Senior Research Fellowship awarded by Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Govt. of India, New Delhi under the scheme 09/1008/ (0001)/2010/EMR-I and project entitled “Salt induced micellar transitions in aqueous solution of Cationic Surfactants” (01/04/2010 to 22/7/2010). 5. Senior Research Fellowship awarded by Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Govt. of India, New Delhi under the scheme 01(2068)/06/EMR-II and project entitled “Interaction of Surfactants in Mixed Micelle: Effect of various Additives, Chain Length, pH and Micelle Charge Density” of Dr. P. Bahadur. (06/05/2008 to 31/12/2009).

Research Interest

Surfactant Science, Polymer Chemistry, Metal Corrosion, Waste water treatment, Materials Science, Soft Condensed Matter, and Computational Chemistry