Work Experience and Education

Work experience:

2025 – Present: Early Career Postdoctoral Scholar, The University of Texas at Austin

Postdoctoral Research Associate, McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering

Laboratories of Prof. Adrianne Rosales and Prof. Keith Keitz

Education:

2019 – 2025: Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering, University of Delaware (Prof. Laure Kayser)

2015 – 2019: B. Tech. in Surface Coating Technology, Department of Polymer and Surface Engineering, Institute of Chemical Technology (ICT Mumbai)

Undergraduate research advisors: Prof. S. T. Mhaske, Prof. V. H. Dalvi, Prof. R. Jagtap

Awards and Achievements:

Awardee, First Place for the Best Poster Award, UT System Postdoctoral Research Symposium, Sept 2025.
Selected for the Early Career Scholars Postdoctoral Fellowship Cohort of 2025 by the Office of Postdoctoral Affairs, UT Austin.
Nominated by the Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MSEG) for the Allan P. Colburn Prize (Best Dissertation Award in UD Engineering) – Chosen as the top dissertation from MSEG for 2024-2025.
Awardee, University of Delaware 2024 Materials Science and Engineering Chairperson’s Outstanding Graduate Student Award.
Awardee, University of Delaware Graduate College Travel award (2024).
Finalist, Eastman Chemical Graduate Award for Applied Polymer Science, ACS Fall National Meeting 2023.
Awardee, University of Delaware Graduate College Professional Development award (2022).
Awardee, University of Delaware 2022 Materials Science and Engineering Outstanding Graduate Student Service Award.
2^nd runner-up, Pitch:90, University-wide elevator pitch competition, University of Delaware.
Winner, Best Presentation, Department of Materials Science and Engineering Annual Student Symposium 2021.
Winner, Annual Art in Materials Competition 2020 – a science photography competition in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Delaware.
Top 10 Finalist, George W. Laird Merit Fellowship 2020 at the College of Engineering, University of Delaware.
2^nd Runner Up, Oral Presentation for the conference ‘Chemical Processes and Technology’, Students’ Research Convention 2019, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.
National Winner in ‘Design is in my DNA 2018’- An Innovation Contest conducted by Asian Paints Research and Technology team; presented a review paper on ‘Bio-based Wood Adhesives’.
Finalist, Oral Presentation: Modification of Adhesives using Nanotechnology and Poster Presentation: Nanotechnology and the Versatility of its Properties and Applications, SCHEMCON (Students’ Chemical Engineering Congress) 2018.
Finalist, Technical Poster Presentation Competition, CHEMTECH Students’ Outreach Program 2018; presented a review on ‘Recent Advances in Nano-Cigarette Filters’.
First runner-up of Senior IDP (Industry Defined Problem) for the ‘Polymerization of Tetrahydrofuran’ in VORTEX, the Chemfest of ICT-2017.