Reddy, Benjaram M
Benjaram M. Reddy received the PhD degree in Catalysis from Osmania University, Hyderabad, India in 1986 and had post-doctoral stints at Institute for Physical Chemistry, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany (1988-1989), University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY (1993-1994), and Texas A&M University, College Station, TX (1994-1995). He began his scientific career as junior scientist in 1984 at CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad, where he continued on various capacities namely, Chief Scientist, Head of Department, Distinguished Fellow, and Emeritus Scientist until December 2020. Presently, he is associated with Birla Institute of Technology & Science (BITS) Pilani, Hyderabad Campus as Senior Professor Emeritus. During his long career at CSIR-IICT, he received various fellowships namely, JSPS, DAAD, CNRS, NSF, Brain-pool, and other to visit and work in different countries. He has authored or co-authored 290 original research papers in refereed international journals, 11 book chapters, 12 reviews, 5 monographs and 1 edited book, and holds 8 patents. The h index of his publications now stands at 71 with total citations of more than 15,800. He has guided 40 PhD theses and more than 30 BTech/MTech/MSc dissertations. He has been serving as a member of the editorial board or guest editor of Journal of CO2 Utilization, Applied Petrochemical Research, Emission Control Science and Technology, Catalysis Today, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, Frontiers in Chemistry, and some other journals. In his honor, Elsevier Science Publishers’ flagship journal “Molecular Catalysis” published a special issue titled 'Metal Oxides in Catalysis - Professor Benjaram M Reddy Festschrift' (Volume 451 in May 2018) on the occasion of his 60th birthday. He has received several awards and honors that include CSIR Young Scientist Award, CSI Young Scientist Award, Associate Fellowship of Third World Academy of Sciences, Sir C V Raman Fellowship of CSIR, Gold Medal of Society for Materials Chemistry (SMC), Bronze Medal of Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI), and many more. He is an elected fellow of Indian National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Sciences India, the Royal Society of Chemistry, Andhra Pradesh Academy of Sciences, and Telangana Academy of Sciences. He has served or serving as the council member of International Association of Catalysis Societies (IACS) and Asia-Pacific Association of Catalysis Societies (APACS), honorary secretary of Catalysis Society of India, and honorary treasurer of Telangana Academy of Sciences.
Jianli (John) Hu received his PhD degree in 1991 with excellent thesis award in Chemical Engineering from Tsinghua University, China, and was subsequently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA in the group of Professor Irving Wender. He received an MBA degree from Washington State University, Washington in the year 2002. During 1995-1999, he worked in the refining industry at Head Water, Inc. and at British Petroleum (BP), supervising zeolite catalyst development research with the objective of technology licensing to others. From 1999 to 2007 he worked at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory as Research Manager guiding multidisciplinary teams to execute several Federal Government funded research programs. During 2007-2010 he was at Black & Veatch Corporation as R&D Manager directing interdisciplinary teams of R&D engineers and process experts to commercialize various chemical technologies. Subsequently, he was at Koch Industries, Inc. until 2016 as Director of Technology Innovation. Since 2016 he has been at West Virginia University as Statler Chair Professor and Director of Shale Gas Center.
Benjaram M. Reddy received PhD degree in Catalysis from Osmania University, Hyderabad, India in 1986 and had post-doctoral stints at Institute for Physical Chemistry, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany (1988-1989), University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY (1993-1994), and Texas A&M University, College Station, TX (1994-1995). He began his scientific career as junior scientist in 1984 at CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad, where he continued on various capacities namely, Chief Scientist, Head of Department, Distinguished Fellow, and Emeritus Scientist until December 2020. During his long research career, he also worked in different countries on various invitation fellowships namely, JSPS (Japan), DAAD (Germany), CNRS (France), SER (Switzerland), NSF (USA), and Brain-pool (South Korea).
Presently, he is associated with Birla Institute of Technology & Science (BITS) Pilani, Hyderabad Campus as Senior Professor Emeritus.
