Dr. A. M. Prakash

Department of Chemistry 				Phone: 	713-743-3253 (work)             
University of Houston						713-827-8640 (home) 
Houston							Fax: 	713-743-2709          
Texas 77204						e-mail: prakash@bayou.uh.edu
U.S.A.							http://www.uh.edu/~prakash

• To seek a suitable position in material science/physical chemistry/spectroscopy with exposure to new technologies

• Material synthesis, spectroscopic characterization and catalysis

Ph. D. Physics

Sardar Patel University, Gujarat, India.
Thesis based on original research in an interdisciplinary area of Physical Chemistry/ Material science/ Solid State Physics
Title of thesis: Studies on Synthesis and Characterization of High Silica Zeolites and Aluminophosphate Based molecular Sieves.

M. Phil. Physics

University of Calicut, Kerala, India.
Specialization in Solid State Physics
Graduated with First Class (80 %) and First Rank in the University

M. S. Physics

University of Calicut, Kerala, India.
Specialization in Nuclear Physics
Graduated with First Class (70 %) and Fifth Rank in the University

B. S. Physics

University of Calicut, Kerala, India
Graduated with First Class (81%) in the University

• Selected for the award of JSPS (Japan) International Fellowship in 1998
• Awarded Robert A. Walch Foundation (USA) Post Doctoral Fellowship in 1996
• Awarded Direct Research Associateship in 1994 from Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India.
• Qualified National Entrance Test (NET) in 1988 conducted by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research-University Grants Commission combined for the award of research fellowship.
  
• Professor M.S. Joshi 60th birthday award for the best Ph. D. thesis during the year 1992-93

Sept. 1995- to date
Department of Chemistry, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA.
Post Doctoral Research Associate
Nature of work: Synthesis, characterization and catalytic studies of transition metl modified microporous and mesoporous molecular sieves.

Sept. 1994 - Aug. 1995
Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology- Bombay, India
Research Associate
Nature of work: Synthesis, characterization and catalytic evaluation of zeolite and aluminophosphate molecular sieves

Aug. 1993 - Aug. 1994
Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology- Bombay, India
Senior Research Fellow
Nature of work: Synthesis, characterization and catalytic evaluation of zeolite and aluminophosphate molecular sieves.

May. 1993 - July. 1993
Sardar Patel Reneawable Energy Research Institute, Vallabh Vidyanagar, Gujarat, India
Scientific Officer
Nature of work: Development of zeolite based solar refrigerator and solar water distillation unit.

• Published about 50 papers in international journals such as The Journal of American Chemical Society, Jornal of Physical Chemistry, Journal of Catalysis, Chemistry of Materials, Langmuir, Chemical Communications, Faraday Transactions, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, Microprous Materials, Microporous and Mesoporous Materials, Applied Catalysis,etc.
  

• Well experienced in CW and pulsed ESR spectrometers, solid state NMR spectrometers, normal and high resolution X-ray powder diffractometer, thermogravimetric (TG/DTA) analyzer, surface area analyzer, FT-IR spectrophotometer and UV-Visible spectrophotometer, temperature programmed desorption (TPD) units, high vacuum Cahn microbalance for adsorption studies, scanning electron microscopy, electron probe micro analyzer, AES ICP spectrometer, catalytic reactors, GC-MS and high-presure hydrotrhermal synthesis equipments.

• Operating Systems: MS-DOS, Windows 98, Windows NT, Unix
• Language: Basic, C
• Web: HTML
• Packages: Microsoft Office, Corel Graphics, Alchemy, Chem-Draw, ESR and ESEM simulation programs, word processors such as word, Latex, etc.

• Associated with the R&D center of Indian Petrochemical Corporation Ltd, Baroda, India during 1990-93 as part of Ph. D. Program