PERSONAL INFORMATION

NAME First Name: NARESH KUMAR Last Name: AMRADI

ADDRESS KRF-Postdoctoral Researcher Environmental Processes and Materials Laboratory, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea. TELEPHONE Mobile: +82-10-2246-3222, Office: +82-02-2123-7287

E-MAIL [email protected], [email protected]

PERSONAL DETAILS I. Date of Birth: 16/07/1985 II. Marital Status: Married

III. Total Research Experience: 9 Years IV. Total Publications: 28 (Including Book Chapters) V. Total Citations: 986, h-Index:14 (Google Scholar) 1. Currently working as KRF-Postdoctoral Researcher at School of RESEARCH EXPERIENCE Civil and Environmental Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul 03722, Republic of Korea, from April 2019. 2. Completed doctoral studies on “Microbial Transformation of

Solid Waste for Renewable Chemicals, Energy and Polymers in the Biorefinery Framework” under the supervision of Dr.S. Venkata Mohan, Senior Principal Scientist, Bio-Engineering and Environmental Sciences Lab, CSIR-Indian Institute of

Chemical Technology (CSIR-IICT), Hyderabad, India. 3. Previously worked on domestic wastewater treatment and utilization for agriculture-Wastewater for Agriculture Project at International Crops Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT),

Hyderabad from June 2010 to Sept- 2012.

Analytical Skills: COD, BOD, Nitrates, Volatile fatty acids (VFA), TECHNICAL SKILLS Phosphates, Sulphates, Chlorides, Proteins, Carbohydrates, Enzyme Assays, Total solids, Totals Dissolved Solids and Volatile solids. Tools: Liquid Chromatography, Gas Chromatography, Cyclic voltammetry (CV), Florescent In situ Hybridization (FISH), Spectroscopic analysis (ƛ max/UV-Vis).

Molecular biology techniques: DNA/Protein Isolation, Discontinuous

Gradient Gel Electrophoresis (DGGE), 2DE, SDS and Native PAGE.

PATENT FILED Low Cost Electrolyte Membranes for Microbial Fuel Cell Application Synthesized by complexing Starch (Wheat, Corn and Rice) with Salt.

N.Srivastava, S.Venkata Mohan, M.Kumar, M.Yadav, J.K.Chauhan, O.Sarkar, A.Naresh Kumar. Filed on 26/02/2016 with the file number 201611006732.

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EDUCATION AND TRAINING

TITLE OF QUALIFICATION Doctorate in Philosophy (Ph.D) AND DATES December 2012 to July 2019

TITLE OF THESIS “Microbial Transformation of Solid Waste for Renewable Chemicals, Energy and Polymers in the Biorefinery Framework” NAME AND TYPE OF ORGANIZATION

PROVIDING EDUCATION AND Bio-Engineering and Environmental Sciences Lab, CSIR-Indian TRAINING Institute of Chemical Technology (CSIR-IICT), Hyderabad-500 007, Telangana State, India.

TITLE OF QUALIFICATION AND DATES Master of Science in Biotechnology (M.Sc) PRINCIPAL SUBJECTS June-2007 to May-2009 Microbiology, Biochemistry, Cell Biology, Molecular Biology and Genetics, Immunology, Bioprocess Engineering & Technology Processing, etc.

SKILLS COVERED Handling and maintenance of bacterial and fungal cultures; Bacterial Growth Curve; Nucleic acids Isolation and Purification; PCR; Protein isolation and purification; SDS PAGE; Ultracentrifugation; Chromatography Techniques and Basic Bioinformatics tools.

MASTER THESIS DETAILS “Imperative role of Bioreactor Operation Mode on System Performance” under the guidance of Dr.S.Venkata Mohan, Senior Principal Scientist, CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, th NAME AND TYPE OF Hyderabad. Period: 4 months (15 May-2008 to 15th September 2008). ORGANIZATION PROVIDING Osmania University, Hyderabad, India Funded by University Grants Commission, Government of India.

TITLE OF QUALIFICATION AND Bachelor of Science (B.Sc) DATES June-2003 to May-2006 Botany, Zoology and Chemistry PRINCIPAL SUBJECTS Qualitative Analysis of Carbohydrates, Proteins and Lipids; Preparation SKILLS COVERED of buffers; Estimation of DNA, Calibration of fractional weights, pipettes and burettes; Semi and micro analysis of salts of groups.

NAME AND TYPE OF ORGANIZATION Sree Anantha Padmanabha Degree and P.G College; Vikarabad, PROVIDING EDUCATION AND Affiliated to Osmania University, Telangana State, India. TRAINING

TITLE OF QUALIFICATION Intermediate AND DATES PRINCIPAL SUBJECTS 2001-2003 NAME AND TYPE OF Botany, Zoology, Chemistry, Physics ORGANIZATION PROVIDING Sree Anantha Padmanabha Degree and P.G College, Vikarabad. Board EDUCATION AND TRAINING of Intermediate, Telangana State, India.

TITLE OF QUALIFICATION Secondary School Certificate AND DATES 2001 PRINCIPAL SUBJECTS Mathematics, General Sciences, Social Studies, English and Telugu NAME AND TYPE OF Zilla Parishath Government High School, Kankal, Telangana State ORGANIZATION PROVIDING 2 Board of Secondary Education, Telangana State , India. EDUCATION AND TRAINING Page

1. A. Naresh Kumar,Jeong‑Jun Yoon, G.Kumar, Sang‑Hyoun Kim. 2020. LIST OF RESEARCH Biotechnological Valorization of Algal Biomass: an Overview. Systems PUBLICATIONS Microbiology & Biomanufacturing, https://doi.org/10.1007/s43393-020-00012-w 2. A. Naresh Kumar, Sulogna Chatterjee, Manupati Hemalatha, Althuri Avanthi, Booki Min, Sang-Hyoun Kim, S. Venkata Mohan. 2020. Deoiled Algal Biomass Derived Renewable Sugars for Bioethanol and Biopolymer Production in Biorefinery Framework . Bioresource Technology. 296, 122315 (Impact Factor: 7.53, Citations: 7) 3. A. Naresh Kumar, Bandarapu.A. S.Venkata Mohan. 2019. Microbial Electro-

hydrolysis of Sewage Sludge for Production of Biohydrogen, Volatile Fatty Acids along with the Struvite. Chemical Engineering Journal, 374, 1264-1274. (Impact Factor: 10.6, Citations: 8) 4. Parthiban.A ., A. Naresh Kumar., Sabapathy.P.C., Kim.G.B., Cayetano.R.C., Yoon.J.J., Kumar.G., Kim.S.H. 2019. Polyhydroxy butyrate production by

Acinetobacter junii BP25, Aeromonas hydrophila ATCC 7966, and their co-

culture using a feast and famine strategy. Bioresource Technology. 293, 122062. (Impact Factor: 7.53, Citations: 5) 5. A. Naresh Kumar and S.Venkata Mohan. 2018. Acidogenic Valorization of Vegetable Waste for Short Chain Carboxylic Acids and Biohydrogen Production:

Influence of Pretreatment and pH. Journal of Cleaner Production. 203, 1055-

1066 (Impact Factor: 7.24, Citations: 18) 6. A.Naresh Kumar, Booki Min and S.Venkata Mohan. 2018. Defatted Algal Biomass as Feedstock for Short Chain Carboxylic Acids and Biohydrogen Production in the Biorefinery Format. Bioresource Technology. 269, 408-416 (Impact Factor: 7.53, Citations:15) 7. A.Naresh Kumar and S. Venkata Mohan. 2018. Acidogenesis of waste activated sludge-Biohydrogen production with simultaneous short chain carboxylic acids.

Journal of Env Chemical Eng. 6, 2983-2991 ( Impact Factor: 4.3, Citations: 7)

8. A.Naresh Kumar, CN Reddy, S Venkata Mohan. 2015. Biomineralization of azo dye bearing wastewater in periodic discontinuous batch reactor: Effect of

microaerophilic conditions on treatment efficiency. Bioresource Technology.188,

56–64, (Impact Factor: 7.53; Citations: 27) 9. A.Naresh Kumar, C.N.Reddy, R.H.Prasad, S.Venkata Mohan, 2014. Azo dye

load-shock on relative behavior of biofilm and suspended growth configured

periodic discontinuous batch mode operations: Critical evaluation with enzymatic and Bio-electrocatalytic analysis. Water Research. 60, 182-196 (Impact Factor: 9.13; Citations: 25) 10. Jungsu Park, A. Naresh Kumar, Roent Dune A. Cayetano, Sang-Hyoun Kim. 2020. Assessment of Chlorella sp. as a potential feedstock for biological methane production. Bioresource Technology,123075 (Impact Factor: 7.53, Citations: 3) 11. S. Venkata Mohan, M. Hemalatha, K. Amulya, G.Velvizhi,P. Chiranjeevi,

O.Sarkar, A. Naresh Kumar, K. V, Krishna, J. A. Modestra, S. Dahiya, D.K. Yeruva, S.K. Butti, J. S. Sravan, S.Chatterjee, Rajesh Kona. 2020. Decentralized Urban Farming Through Keyhole Garden: A Case Study with Circular Economy and Regenerative Perspective Materials Circular Economy, 2, 12, https://doi.org/10.1007/s42824-020-00011-1 12. S.Venkata Mohan, P.Chiranjeevi, Shikha Dahiya, A.Naresh Kumar. 2018. Review: Waste derived bioeconomy in India: A perspective. New Biotechnology Journal. 40, 60-69 (Impact Factor: 4.67, Citations: 30)

13. Shikha Dahiya, A. Naresh Kumar, J.S. Sravan, S. Chatterjee, Omprakash Sarkar, 3 S. Venkata Mohan. 2018. Review: Food waste biorefinery: Sustainable strategy

for circular bioeconomy. Bioresource Technology. 248, 2-12 (Impact Factor: Page 7.53, Citations: 184)

LIST OF RESEARCH 14. C. N. Reddy, A. Naresh Kumar, S. Venkata Mohan. 2018. Metabolic phasing of PUBLICATIONS anoxic-PDBR for high rate treatment of azo dye wastewater. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 343 (5), 49-58 (Impact Factor: 9.03, Citations: 23) 15. Shuvra Singha, Tushar Jana, J. A, Modestra, A. Naresh Kumar, S. Venkata Mohan. 2016. Highly efficient sulfonated polybenzimidazole as a proton

exchange membrane for microbial fuel cells. Journal of Power Sources. 317 (15), 143 - 152 (Impact Factor: 8.24, Citations: 48) 16. S. Venkata Mohan, G.N. Nikhil, P. Chiranjeevi, C. Nagendranatha Reddy, M.V.

Rohit, A. Naresh Kumar, Omprakash Sarkar. 2016. Review: Waste biorefinery models towards sustainable circular bioeconomy: Critical review and future perspectives. Bioresource Technology. 215, 2-12 (Impact Factor: 7.53, Citations: 331) 17. Omprakash Sarkar, A. Naresh Kumar, S.Dahiya, K.V.Krishna, D.K.Yeruva and S. Venkata Mohan. 2016. Regulation of acidogenic metabolism towards enhanced short chain fatty acid biosynthesis from waste: metagenomic profiling. RSC Advances. 6, 18641-18653 (Impact Factor: 3.11, Citations: 48). 18. S. Sreelatha, G. Velvizhi, A. Naresh Kumar, S. Venkata Mohan. 2016. Functional behavior and treatment efficiency of bio-electrochemical treatment system with increasing azo dye concentration: Synergistic interactions of biocatalyst and electrode assembly. Bioresource Technology. 213, 11-20 (Impact Factor: 7.53, Citations: 7) 19. J. Shanthi Sravan, A. Naresh Kumar, S. Venkata Mohan. 2016. Multi-pollutant treatment of micro-crystalline cellulosic effluent: Function of dissolved oxygen on process control. Bioresource Technology. 217, 245-251 (Impact Factor: 7.53, Citations: 3) 20. D.K.Yeruva, S.Jukuri, G.Velvizhi, A.Naresh Kumar, Y.V.Swamy, S.Venkata Mohan. 2015. Integrating sequencing batch reactor with bio- electrochemical treatment for augmenting remediation efficiency of complex petrochemical wastewater. Bioresource Technology. 188, 33-42 (Impact Factor: 7.53, Citations: 45) 21. S.Venkata Mohan, Omprakash Sarkar, Manu Agarwal, A. Naresh Kumar. 2015. Retrofitting heterotrophically cultivated algae biomass as pyrolytic feedstock for biogas, bio-char and bio-oil production encompassing biorefinery. Bioresource Technology. 111, 132-138 (Impact Factor: 7.53, Citations: 35)

22. C.N. Reddy, A.Naresh Kumar, J.A. Modestra and S.Venkata Mohan. 2014, Induction of anoxic microenvironment in multi-phase metabolic shift strategy during periodic discontinuous batch mode operation enhances treatment of azo dye wastewater, Bioresource Technology.165, 241-249 (Cover Page Article, Impact Factor: 7.53, Citations: 19) 23. P. Chiranjeevi, A. Naresh Kumar, S. Venkata Mohan. 2014. Critical assessment of biofilm and suspended growth reactor configurations for acidogenic biohydrogen production using wastewater as a function of redox microenvironment. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. 39 (14), 7561- 7571 (Impact Factor:4.93; Citations: 13) 24. S.Venkata Mohan, C. Nagendranatha Reddy, A.Naresh Kumar, J.A. Modestra.

2013. Relative performance of biofilm configuration over suspended growth operation on azo dye based wastewater treatment in periodic discontinuous batch mode operation. Bioresource Technology, 147, 424-433 (Impact Factor: 7.53, Citations: 32)

1. S. Venkata Mohan, J. S.Sravan, S.K. Butti, K. V. Krishna, J. A. Modestra, G. BOOK CHAPTERS Velvizhi, A. Naresh Kumar, Sunita Varjani, Ashok Pandey. 2019. Chapter 1.1: Microbial Electrochemical Technology: Emerging and Sustainable Platform.

Elsevier, ISBN-9780444640529.

2. R.Katakojwala, A. Naresh Kumar, D.Chakraborty, S.Venkata Mohan. 2019.

Chapter 3: Valorization of sugarcane waste: Prospects of a Biorefinery. ISBN: 4 978-0-12-815907-1. Page

BOOK CHAPTERS 3. S. Venkata Mohan, K. Amulya, J. Annie Modestra, Omprakash Sarkar, A. Naresh Kumar, M. V. Rohit and C. N. Reddy. 2014. Bioenergy from Waste Remediation: Recent Advances Towards Environmental Biorefinery, Narosa Publishing House, ISSN: 2321-6026-72, 84, http://www.narosa.com/juet_0114.asp 4. C. Nagendranatha Reddy, J. Annie Modestra, A. Naresh Kumar, S. Venkata Mohan. 2015. Chapter: Waste Remediation Integrating with Value Addition: Biorefinery Approach Towards Sustainable. Bio-based Technologies. Springer, ISBN 978-81-322-2598-0.

1. A.Naresh Kumar. 2018. Global Warming Gas Transformation to Valuable ONLINE PUBLISHED Chemicals. Science India Online Portal. http://scienceindia.in /article/411 ARTILES 2. A.Naresh Kumar. 2018. Edible Water Balls - Can Avoid Plastic Bottles. Science India Online Portal. http://scienceindia.in/home/view_article/328 3. J. S. Sravan, A. Naresh Kumar, S. Venkata Mohan. 2016. Functional role of dissolved oxygen as TEA-Towards treatment of multiple pollutants. Atlas of Science, http://atlasofscience.org

1. Awarded with Postdoctoral Fellowship namely Korean Research Fellowship AWARDS & funded by National Research Foundation (NRF), South Korea. ACHIEVEMENTS 2. Honored with WILEY Biotechnology Journal Sponsored “Best Poster Award at International Symposium on Biopolymers (ISBP-2018)” organized at st th Beijing, China during 21 to 24 October-2018. 3. Received the RULA International Innovation and Betterment Excellence Award “Outstanding Researcher in Environmental Biotechnology” by IJRULA sponsored for the review article entitled "Food waste biorefinery: Sustainable strategy for circular bioeconomy" for the year 2018. 4. Selected among the 15 participants from India to participate in fully funded “IGCS Summer School-2016 on “Biomass and Coal-Two Carbon Fuels of

Different Ages: German and Indian Perspectives” at Berlin University of Technology, Germany during 10th to 19th July 2016. 5. Elsevier announced for BITE to TOP 20 cited Review Article “Waste Biorefinery Models towards Sustainable Circular Bioeconomy: Critical Review and Future Perspectives” for the Impactful Research Awards by the Bioresource Technology at BIORESTEC-2018 held at Spain, Sep 16-19, 2018. 6. Research article entitled “Induction of anoxic microenvironment in multi- phase metabolic shift strategy during periodic discontinuous batch mode operation enhances treatment of azo dye wastewater” published as a cover page article in Bioresource Technology Journal special issue in Aug-2014.

1. Presented a talk at “4th International Conference on Bioresources, Energy, CONFERENCES/ Environment and Materials Technology (BEEM-2020) on “Sustainable Biopolymers Production Using Red Algae Derived Volatile Fatty Acids: Closed WORKSHOP Loop Approach” during September 6 to 9, 2020 at Songdo Convnsia, Incheon, PROCEEDINGS South Korea. 2. Presented a poster at International Conference on Hydrogen Energy

(ICAFE-2019) on “Sustainable Multistage Process for Biohydrogen and Biopolymers Production: Closed Loop Biorefinery Approach” during October 19-20, 20119 at Feng Chia University, Taichung, Taiwan. 3. Organized an International Conference on “Biotechnological Research and

Innovations for Sustainable Development (BioSD-2018)” during 22nd to 25th November-2018 at CSIR-IICT, Hyderabad, India. 4. Presented a talk on “Microbial Catalysis of Organic Municipal Solid Waste to Biofuels and Platform Chemicals” at International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Environmental Challenges (SEEC-2018) during st rd

1 to 3 Jan-2018 at Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India.

5. Presented a talk on “Sustainable Valorization of Biogenic Solid Waste to 5

Renewable Chemicals and Biomaterials” at National Conference on

Emerging Trend in Analytical Sciences-2018 at CSIR-IICT, Hyderabad, India. Page

6. Organized an “Indo-EU Workshop on Microbial Electrochemical Technologies for Sustainability: Fuels, Chemicals and Remediation- met SUS2017’ on 28th February 2017 at CSIR-IICT, Hyderabad, India 7. Presented a poster on “Acidogenic Based Waste Biorefinery for Integrated Production of Renewable Chemicals and Fuels” at International Conference on Sustainable Chemistry for Health, Environment and Materials (Su-Chem-2018) during 6th to 8th August, 2018 at CSIR-IICT, Hyderabad, India. 8. Presented poster on “Sustainable Valorization of Biogenic Municipal Solid Waste to Biobased Products” at International Conference on Current Trends in th th Biotechnology” (ICCB-2016) during 8 to 10 December-2016 at Vellore Institute of Technology University (VIT), Tamilanadu, India. 9. Presented a poster on “Bioelectrohydrolysis as a novel pretreatment tool for Solid Waste Hydrolysis: Integrated Bioprocess towards Biohydrogen and Carboxylic acids production” at 3rd ISEES International Workshop on

"Sustainable Energy, Environment & Safety with Railway Centric Theme" during 21st to 23rd December-2015 at Lucknow, India. 10. Presented a talk on” Bioconversion of Solid Waste to Carboxylic Acids through Acidogenic Fermentation” at International Conference on Environment and Energy (ICEE-2014) during 15th Dec to 17th December-2014 organized at Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad, India.

Dr. S.Venkata Mohan Senior Principal Scientist REFERENCES Bioengineering and Environmental Sciences Lab (BEES) CEEFF, CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (CSIR-IICT) Hyderabad - 500 007, India Ph. No. 040-27191765/1679, Email: [email protected]

Prof. Sang-Hyoun Kim Associate Professor School of Civil and Environmental Engineering Yonsei University, Seoul 03722, South Korea Phone: +82-2-2123-2802,

E-mail: [email protected], [email protected]

Dr. R S Prakasham

Chief Scientist Organic Synthesis & Process Chemistry Lab CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (CSIR-IICT) Hyderabad - 500 007, India Ph. No. 040-27191662, Email: [email protected]

I hereby declare that all statements made herein are true to the best of

my knowledge and belief.

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