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Ravi Kukkadapu
Senior Research Scientist, WR Wiley Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Environmental Spectroscopy & Biogeochemistry FacilityDual Assignment
WR Wiley Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory / Interfacial & Nanoscale Science Facility
Education
PhD, Inorganic Chemistry, Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, India, 1986
MS, Inorganic Chemistry, Osmania University, India, 1981
Awards, Honors, & Appointments
July 95 - to present: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
Best Poster award (2000): International symposium on the industrial applications of Mössbauer effect, Virginia Beach, USA.
Recipient of 3 US patents [5,587,084 (1996), 5,630,075 (1997), and 5,747,403 (1998)]. Topic: Method of Removing Organic Contaminants from Air and Water with Organophilic, Quaternary Phosphonium Ion-exchanged Smectite Clays.
September 90-June 95 Research Associate at the Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI (Department of Chemistry and Department of Crop and Soil Sciences).
Robert R. Welch foundation?s postdoctoral fellowship (1987-1991), University of Houston.
January 87-August 90 Postdoctoral fellow at the University of Houston (Department of Chemistry).