Samir Hemant Mushrif

Biography

Samir was born in India and completed his undergraduate studies in Chemical Engineering from Laxminarayan Institute of Technology, Nagpur (India). He then went to Canada to pursue his graduate studies in chemical engineering and did his Masters in chemical engineering from the University of Saskatchewan. He worked on mathematical modeling of complex multiphase behavior of petroleum fluids. He later joined McGill University in Canada for his doctoral studies in chemical engineering, under the supervision of Prof. Alejandro D. Rey, and worked on theoretical multiscale modeling of nano-carbon materials for hydrogen storage and catalysis. During his Ph.D., he received the prestigious NSERC (Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada) post-graduate doctoral fellowship. His work on carbon materials was awarded twice, in 2008 and 2009, by the Materials Research Society in their Annual Conference in Boston, USA and he was also one of the keynote speakers in the World Conference on Carbon–2010. In 2010, Samir won the NSERC post–doctoral fellowship and joined the Catalysis Center for Energy Innovation (a US Department of Energy funded research center) and the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Delaware, as a research fellow. His work in the USA focused on developing novel processes and catalysts for the conversion of biomass to chemicals and fuels. This work was highlighted in Nature Chemistry and in the Science Daily, USA. Samir joined the School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering at Nanyang Technological University in August 2012 as an assistant professor and will continue his work in the areas of nano–carbon materials and biomass conversion technology.

Research Interest

(i) the synthesis and behavior of catalytic and energy storage materials, particularly carbon based and active metal doped materials, and (ii) the chemistry of lignocellulosic biomass conversion, in the presence of these materials, using a multiscale modeling and simulation approach. The hierarchical multiscale approach, developed on the foundation of first principles/quantum mechanical laws and in synergy with experimental findings are implemented for materials and process design.