Profile
Dr. S. Saravanamurugan is Scientist-F at the Center of Innovative and Applied Bioprocessing (CIAB), Mohali, India. He obtained his PhD in the field of heterogeneous catalysis from Anna University, India, in 2005. He worked as a research scientist/post-doctoral fellow at KAIST/Inha University, South Korea. He worked as a Post-doctoral fellow and Senior Researcher at the Centre for Catalysis and Sustainable Chemistry, Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Denmark, for over eight years. His main research topics include biomass transformation with zeolite/zeotype and mixed oxide catalysts. He has over 80 peer-reviewed publications, and he has co-edited two books and seven patents filed/granted with more than 6000 citations (h-Index 35). He received a DST-DAAD Fellowship during his doctoral studies (2004), the Early Career Research Award (SERB) (2017) and was admitted as a fellow of the International Society for Energy, Environment and Sustainability (ISEES) (2020). He was a visiting professor at Guizhou University, China (2015-2021) and is an adjunct Associate Professor at the Regional Centre for Biotechnology, India. Notably, he has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) (2021).
Current Focus Areas
Valorisation of biomass with catalytic approaches
Zeolite-catalysed biomass transformation
Metal oxide-catalysed biomass transformation
Selected Publications
1. M. S. Holm, S. Saravanamurugan, E. Taarning, ‘ Conversion of sugars to lactic acid derivatives using heterogeneous zeotype catalysts,’ Science, 328 (2010) 602
2.S. Saravanamurugan, M. Paniagua, J. Melero, A. Riisager, ‘Efficient isomerization of glucose to fructose over zeolites in consecutive reactions in alcohol and aqueous media,’ J. Am. Chem. Soc., 135 (2013) 5246.
3. P. Pal, H. Li and S. Saravanamurugan*, ‘Removal of Lignin and Silica from Rice Straw for Enhanced Accessibility of Holocellulose for the Production of High-Value Chemicals,’ Bioresour. Technol. 361 (2022) 127661.
4. P. Pal and S. Saravanamurugan*, ‘Enhanced Basicity of MnOx Supported Ru for the Selective Oxidation of HMF to FDCA,’ ChemSusChem, 15 (2022) e202200902.
5. K. Saini, S. Kumar, R. Kaur, S. A. Babu and S. Saravanamurugan,* ‘Accelerated H2 activation over Pt/M-ZrO2 for the reductive amination of levulinic acid esters under benign conditions,’ Catal. Sci. Technol. 13 (2023) 1666.