Naveen Krishna Reddy CV Work address: Home address: Universiteit Hasselt, Campus Diepenbeek, Agoralaan, Gebouw H, B-3590, Kantoor A101

86, Voorshoventerweg, B-3680, Maaseik (Belgium)

Phone No: +32 486 54 05 22 Born 10th February 1980,

Nationality-Indian, Belgium permanent resident email: naveen.reddy@uhasselt.be

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Education

PhD in Chemical Engineering, 2006 to 2011 Soft Matter, Rheology and Technology group, KU Leuven, Belgium. Thesis title: Suspensions and gels composed of non-spherical nanoparticles: Rheology and scattering Supervisors: Prof. Jan Vermant (KU Leuven, Belgium) and Prof. Jan Dhont (Forschungszentrum Juelich, ICS-3, Germany).

o Characterized non-spherical gold nanoparticles to obtain hydrodynamic aspect ratio and polydispersity.

o Investigated flow behavior of graphene suspensions using rheo-optics. o Synthesized and modified thermo-reversible gels made of rod-like virus particles. Investigated the

gel structure with different inter-particle interactions using rheology and scattering. Master in Chemical Engineering, 2005 to 2006

Plasma science and engineering group, McGill University, Montreal (QC), Canada. Thesis title: Study of growth of carbon nanotubes on pure metal and metal alloy electrodes Supervisors: Prof. Jean-Luc Meunier (McGill University, Canada) and Prof. Sylvain Coulombe (McGill University, Canada).

o Constructed plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) reactor. o Produced carbon nanotubes (CNT) directly on metal alloys for reduction of cathode erosion in

plasma torch. Synthesizing CNT metal composites. Bachelor in Chemical Engineering, 1998 to 2002

Rashtriya Vidyalaya College of Engineering (RVCE), Bangalore, India. Thesis title: Thermogravimetric analysis of iron ore oxides

o Constructed thermogravimetry analyzer (TGA). Studied Iron ore oxides using TGA and X-ray diffraction.

 

Professional experience

Assistant Professor (October 2016 – present), University of Hasselt, Hasselt, Belgium.

Activities: Teaching and research in the Packaging Technology Center.

Senior Research Scientist (December 2014 – September 2016), Janssen Research & Development, Beerse, Belgium.

Activities: Scientific lead for packaging and rheology groups. Investigations/market complaints and R&D support with emphasis on packaging in combination products and rheological characterization. In this role I have brought scientific knowledge and experimental methodology into the group. This has lead to the establishment of our rheology lab as the center of excellence within Janssen. Currently promoted to people manager packaging group.

Life Science Consultant (March 2014 – November 2011), Randstad Professionals, Belgium. Worked for Janssen Research & Development, Beerse, Belgium.

Activities: Investigations/market complaints and R&D support with emphasis on combination products and rheological characterization. o Packaging/combination product group:

- Development of container closure integrity testing (CCIT) for injectable drug. - Identifying simple, fast and cost effective methods for defect detection in primary and

secondary packaging. - Market complaints and investigations.

o Rheology group: - Trouble shooting for commercial and R&D product - Method development, R&D support for product stability

Post Doctorate: (July 2011 – February 2014), with Prof. Christian Clasen, Chemical engineering department, KU Leuven, Belgium.

o Solution based processing of photovoltaic modules: Advising SIM-SOPPAM consortium on rheological modification of solutions. Example, helped in reducing film cracking during printing of CIGS suspensions.

o Self-propulsion: Synthesized micro-rods that self-propel perpendicular to the long axis of the rod. o Fiber-spinning: Determined a new scaling law for fiber spinning in high molecular weight regime. o Nanofiber composites: Produced aligned nanofibers composed of aligned nanorods. o Superhydrophobic materials: Identified and characterized low cost superhydrophobic membrane. o Errors in rheometry: Investigated the effects of over- and under-filling in rotational rheometers.

Teaching Assistant:

o Applied physical chemistry, KU Leuven, Belgium (2012-2013) o Rheology projects, KU Leuven, Belgium (2011-2012) o Advanced fluid mechanics, KU Leuven, Belgium (2010-2011) o Chemical reaction engineering, KU Leuven, Belgium (2008-2010) o Process control, McGill, Canada (2006) o Control systems, McGill, Canada (2005) o Linear algebra, BITS-Pilani, India (2004) o Thermodynamics, BITS-Pilani, India (2004)

Research Assistant: Liquid hold-up studies in 2D packed beds (2003 - 2004) Metallurgy department, Indian Institute of science (IISc), Bangalore, India. Research Assistant: Characterization of Iron ore (2002 - 2003)

Physics department, Bangalore University, Bangalore, India.

Awards • Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek – Vlaanderen (FWO) Travel Grant Award, to attend 3rd FAPS-

MACRO conference, Bangalore, 2013. • Travel Grant Award, the Society of Rheology annual meeting, Santa Fe, 2010. • Brain Scarlet poster award by International Fine Particle Research Institute (IFPRI), Belgium, 2010

($1000). • McGill graduate studies award, November 2005 ($5000). • Summer tuition scholarship, McGill University, June 2005 (covered my summer tuition).

Skills Experimental

o Rheology and rheo-optics. o Fiber-spinning (electro, spray and force). o Light scattering (small angle light scattering and depolarized dynamic light scattering). o Scanning electron microscopy, optical and fluorescent microscopy. o Plasma enhanced and thermal chemical vapor deposition. o Thermo-gravimetric analysis. o Powder x-ray diffraction and Mossbauer spectroscopy.

Computer o Matlab, Fluent and Gambit, C.

Languages o English, Dutch (basic), Kannada, Telugu (mother tongue) and Hindi.

Publications in international journals

• G. Natale, Naveen Krishna Reddy, G. Ausias, J. Férec, M. C. Heuzey and P. J. Carreau, Rheo-optical response of carbon nanotube suspensions. Journal of rheology 59(2), 499 (2015).

• Ljiljana Palangetic*, Naveen Krishna Reddy*, Siddarth Srinivasan, Robert E. Cohen, Gareth H. McKinley and Christian Clasen, "Dispersity and spinnability: Why highly polydisperse polymer solutions are desirable for fiber spinning", accepted in Polymer (2014). * equal contribution.

• Naveen Krishna Reddy, Christian Clasen, Self-propelling micro-disks, Korea-Australia Rheology Journal 26(1), 73 (2014).

• Naveen Krishna Reddy, Ljiljana Palangetic, Linda Stappers, Johan Buitenhuis, Jan Fransaer and Christian Clasen, “Metallic and bi-metallic Janus nanofibers: electrical and self-propulsion properties”, J. Mater. Chem. C, 1, 3646 (2013).

• Naveen Krishna Reddy, Zhenkun Zhang, M. Paul Lettinga, Jan Dhont and Jan Vermant, “Probing structure in colloidal gels of thermo-reversible rod-like virus particles: Rheology and scattering”, Journal of rheology 56(5), 1153 (2012).

• W. Brullot, Naveen Krishna Reddy, J. Wouters, V.K. Valev, B. Goderis, J. Vermant, T. Verbiest, “Versatile ferrofluids based on polyethylene glycol coated iron oxide nanoparticles”, Journal of magnetism and magnetic materials 324, 1919 (2012).

• Naveen Krishna Reddy, Jorge Perez-Juste, Isabel P. Santos, Peter Lang, Luis M. Liz-Marzan, Jan Dhont and Jan Vermant, “Flow dichroism as a reliable method to measure the hydrodynamic aspect ratio of gold nanoparticles”, ACS nano 5, 4935 (2011).

• Christophe Mobuchon, Naveen Krishna Reddy, Pierre J. Carreau and Marie-Claude Heuzey, Jan Vermant, “Mechanical and optical anisotropy of non-aqueous layered silicate suspension subjected to shear flow”, Journal of rheology 53(3), 517 (2009).

• Zhenkun Zhang, Naveen Krishna, M. Paul Lettinga, Jan Vermant, Eric Grelet, “Reversible gelation of rod-like viruses grafted with thermoresponsive polymers”, Langmuir 25 (4), 2437 (2009).

• M. Akbulut, N. K. Reddy, L. Vicum, B. Bechtloff, S. Koltzenburg, J. Vermant, R.K. Prud’homme, “Flow-induced conformational changes in gelatin structure and colloidal stabilization”, Langmuir 24(17), 9636 (2008).

• Laxminarayana Rao, Naveen K, Sylvain Coulombe, Jean-Luc Meunier and Richard Munz, “Carbon nanotubes as nanoparticles collector”, Journal of nanoparticles Research 9(4), 689 (2007).

• G. S. Gupta and K. Naveen, “Cold model study of liquid flow and holdup in the dropping zone of blast furnace”, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B 38(2), 203 (2007).

• Naveen K, J. L. Meunier and S. Coulombe, “Growth of carbon nanotubes directly on a nickel surface by thermal CVD”, Materials Letters 60, 3761 (2006).

• M.G. Basavaraj, G.S. Gupta, K. Naveen, V. Rudolph and R. Bali, “Local liquid holdups and hysteresis in a 2-D packed bed using X-ray radiography”, AIChE Journal 51, 2178 (2005).

Talks presented in international conferences

• Electrospinning: production of fibers due the presence of small amounts of high molecular weight polymer in polydisperse and low concentration solutions. 3rd FAPS-MACRO. Bangalore, India, (May 2013).

• The need to monitor the edge is part of the “folklore” of rheometry: Effects of over- and underfilling in rotational rheometry. 8th Annual European Rheology Conference AERC, Leuven, Belgium, (April 2013).

• Fiber formation during electrospinning of low molecular weight polymer solutions due to the presence of small amounts of high molecular weight polymer. 84th Annual Meeting of The Society of Rheology. Pasadena, CA, USA (February 2013).

• Characterization of stiff and flexible anisotropic nanoparticles using rheo-optics, Society of Rheology meeting, Santa Fe, USA (October 2010).

• Characterization of thermoreversible gels composed of monodispersed rodlike particles: Rheology and scattering, Society of Rheology meeting, Madison, USA (October 2009).

• Preparation and characterization of gels made from rod like particles, SoftComp annual meeting, Crete, Greece (June 2008).

• Flow distribution in plate fin heat exchangers, International conference on Chemical Engineering in the Global Environment, organized by AIChE and IIChE, Bombay, India (December 2004).