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SUMMARY * Innovative and highly motivated research scientist with 10+ years of hands-on expertise in polymer design, characterization and formulation towards target specific applications. Developed in-depth understanding of structure-property relationship in polymers. * Strong project management experience in implementing process development and executing analytical experiments, facilitating small-scale screening and validation of 100+ functional polymer materials. * Excellent communication skills, and proven team leadership skills. Successfully led multiple research projects involving cross-functional collaborations, resulting in 25 peer- reviewed publications with one international patent issued and an additional US patent application under review. and * Designed and developed several modified polyolefin matrices (e.g., PE, PE etc.) by functionalizing with polyvinyl employing novel Radiation Induced Graft Polymerization (RIGP) and Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization (ATRP) methods. * Instituted 3 major techniques for preparing polymer materials and processing, resulting in greater than 30% estimated cost recovery. * Improved productivity of my research laboratory by reducing experiment times by 95%. * Developed and validated several amidoxime based functional fiber adsorbents for the US Department of Energy, which successfully demonstrated a uranium adsorption capacity of more than 5 g-U/Kg-ads. after resulted in 10 publications in top-tier scientific journals. * Demonstrated ability to work independently as well as a member of a team. Provided training and supervision junior scientists. Engaged in lab management maintenance of analytical instrumentations design of experiments method development data analysis problem-solving writing technical reports and reporting data through presentations at various scientific meetings.
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