| Dr. D. Amaranatha Reddy Assistant Professor (Grade-I) Department of Sciences (Physics) IIITDM, Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh |
Education Qualifications:
Ph.D. in Physics from Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, India.
Professional / Teaching Experience:
S.No | Name of the Organization | Designation | Duration |
01 | Indian Institute of Information Technology Design & Manufacturing, Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh, India | Assistant Professor (Grade-I) | March 2023 to till date |
02 | Indian Institute of Information Technology Design & Manufacturing, Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh, India | Inspire Faculty | August 2020 to March 2023
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03 | University-Industry Foundation, Yonsei University, South Korea | Researcher | March 2019 to July 2020 |
04 | Pusan National University, South Korea | Research Professor | March 2018 to February 2019 |
05 | Pusan National University, South Korea | Post-doctoral fellow | March 2014 to February 2018 |
06 | Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Yongin, South Korea | Post-doctoral fellow | April 2013 to February 2014 |
Areas of Research Interest:
My research focuses on the synthesis, characterization and multiple applications of nanoscale materials.
(i) Solar Fuels: Hydrogen Production by photo/photoelectro/Electro catalytic Water Splitting
(ii) Photocatalytic decontamination of Aqueous pollutants for water purification
(iii) Photocatalytic CO2 conversion into value-added chemicals
(iv) Energy Storage: Supercapacitors
(v) Photodetectors
Research Publications
Total Number of SCI Publications | 130 |
Total Number of Conference Proceedings | 12 |
Google Scholar Citations | Total Citations: 6703 H-Index:52; I-10 Index:108 |
Link for complete list of Research Publications | |
Funded Projects:
S. No | Funding Agency
| Title of the Project | Grant (INR) | Role (PI/Co-PI) | Status |
6 | APSCHE | Effective strategies to design and develop high efficiency low price Chalcogenide Based Catalysts for Green Hydrogen Fuel Production | 10,00,000/- | PI | Ongoing (2024-2026) |
5 | UGC-DAE-CSR | Fabrication of lab scale to pilot scale photo-anodes for Photo-electrochemical Water Splitting | 1,95,000/- | PI | Ongoing (2024-2027) |
4 | DST-SERB (Core Grant) | E-Waste to Wealth: Development of Eco-Designed Fiber based Photocathodes to construct Hybrid PV-PEC Devices for Hydrogen Fuel and Electrical power generation | 44,69,696/- | PI | Ongoing (2024-2027) |
3 | DST-SERB (Core Grant) | Combined Theoretical and Experimental approach for discovering novel 2D Janus photocatalysts for Green Hydrogen Fuel Production | 41,98,832/- | Co-PI | Ongoing (2023-2026) |
2 | DRDO (ER&IPR) | Design of pilot scale hydrogen fuel generation device embedded with Quantum dot Solar Cells for high purity hydrogen fuel production | 39,87,524/- | PI | Ongoing (2022-2025) |
1 | DST (INSPIRE) | Understanding the charge dynamics in heterogeneous photo-electro-catalytic water splitting with femtosecond in-situ time-resolved X-ray absorption spectroscopy | 35,00,000/- | PI | Ongoing (2020-2025) |
Conference/Workshop Grants
S. No | Funding Agency
| Title of the Conference/Workshop | Grant (INR) | Role
| Date of Event |
5 | SERB & CSIR & Other Sponsors | India’s National Hydrogen mission: Recent developments and future prospects | 2,38,900/- | Convenor | 22-24 July 2024 |
4 | APCOST | “Kurnool Science Week to ignite the science in Young Minds for Future” | 1,50,000/- | Convenor | 01-07 July 2024 |
3 | SERB-SSR | "Combined Theoretical and Experimental approach for Discovering novel Catalytic materials for Green Hydrogen Fuel Production | 50,000/- | Co-Ordinator | 15-16 February 2024 |
2 | CSIR & Others | National Conference on Challenges and Opportunities for Green Hydrogen in India | 1,00,500/- | Co-Ordinator | June 28 - 29 2023 |
1 | E & ICT Academy, & (MeitY), GOI | FDP on Nanomaterials: Experimental Design &Theoretical Modelling | 1,05,000/- | Co-Ordinator | 13 – 20 February, 2021 |
Travel Grants
S. No | Funding Agency
| Title of the Conference & Venue | Grant (INR) | Role
| Date of Event |
1 | SERB-ITS | E-MRS, 2024 Fall Meeting, Poland | 1,33,482/- | Invited Speaker | September 16-19, 2024 |
2 | ICAMD 2023 | The 13th International Conference on Advanced Materials and Devices, Jeju, South Korea
| 1,50,000/- | Invited Speaker | December 4 ~ 8, 2023 |
Ph.D. students:
S. No | Student Name & Roll No | Research Topic | Date of Registration | Status | Role |
1 | Pooja Varma 321SE0001 | Development of Novel catalytic materials for hydrogen fuel production | July 2021 | Thesis Submitted
|
Supervisor |
2 | Kakarla Viswanath 423DS0001 | Fabrication of Electro catalysts for Hydrogen Fuel Production | July 2023 | Ongoing |
Supervisor |
3 | Golla Tejaswini 323DS0002 | Theoretical Modeling’s of Energy Materials | July 2023 | Ongoing | Co-Supervisor |
4 | Koneti Koteswara Rao 323DS0004 | Energy Storage/Conversion Devices | December 2023 | Ongoing | Supervisor |
5 | Sri Harika 324DS0001 | E-waste to wealth: PEC hydrogen Production | July 2024 | Ongoing | Supervisor |
Accolades:
1. INSPIRE Faculty Award, Department of Science and Technology, Government of India-2019
2. Enlisted on the global list of the Top 2% of scientists, the data compiled by Stanford University, USA 2021, 2022, 2023 & 2024)
(https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/3)
3. ACS Omega Best Oral Presentation Award WNCST 2021: World Nano Congress on Advanced Science& Technology
4 Best Oral Presentation Award 2nd Indo-Korea Virtual Conference on DAMFT-2021
5. Awarded Young Researcher Award 2023 by the Venus International Foundation, Chennai, INDIA (https://viraw.info/2023/science/materials.html)
6. Elected as a Guest Editor for the research topic “Emerging Two-dimensional Nanomaterials for Energy and Environmental Applications” by the leading Open Access Publisher and Open Science Platform “Frontiers in Chemistry”.
7. Elected as an International Organizing Committee Member for 15th Asia Pacific Physics Conference (APPC15) held on August 21 - 26, 2022, South Korea. (https://www.appc15.org/sub01/appc.html)
8. Listed as Best Materials Science Scientists in India 2022 - Research.com Rising Star of Science Award (https://research.com/u/d-amaranatha-reddy)
9. Listed as Best Materials Science Scientists in India by 2023 (https://research.com/scientists-rankings/materials-science/in)
Contact:
Email: drreddy@iiitk.ac.in
Cont: +91-9985577335