Sreedevi Upadhyayula

Biography

Dr. Sreedevi Upadhyayula worked as a senior design engineer for five years in both Public sector (BHPV Ltd., Visakhapatnam, subsidiary of BYNL group) and Private sector (APL, Chennai, subsidiary of PTE, Singapore) after completing her M. Tech in Chemical Engineering (Petroleum Refinery and Petrochemical Technology specialization) from IIT Kharagpur in 1993. She returned back to academics in 1998 when she joined the Catalysis division of National Chemical Laboratory, Pune as a CSIR Senior Research Fellow. She completed her PhD in 2001 jointly from NCL, Pune and Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. She then worked as a Post-doctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Chemical Engineering at University of Notre Dame, IN, USA, before joining the Department of Chemical Engineering at IIT Kharagpur as an Assistant Professor in January 2004. In April 2006, she joined the Department of Chemical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. Her research interests include environmentally benign heterogeneous catalysis, Petrochemical and Refinery catalytic processes, catalytic manufacturing of fine chemicals in green chemistry route involving ionic liquids, biomass conversion to biofuels, Kinetics and Modeling of heterogeneous reactions. She is currently an associate professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi.

Research Interest

Heterogeneous catalysis, Green industrial processes, Modeling of fluid reactions in composite manufacturing