Dr. srinivasa rao ravulakollu

Biography

Ravulakollu Srinivasa Rao completed his Ph.D. at the CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT), Hyderabad, India, under the supervision of Dr. Surya Prakash Singh. From 2020 to 2021, he served as an Assistant Manager at UQUIFA in India. In 2022, he joined Prof. Sung Yeon Jang’s group at the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), South Korea, as a postdoctoral fellow, where he focused on synthesizing non-fullerene acceptors for organic photovoltaics. Currently, he is a postdoctoral fellow under Prof. Janah Shaya at Khalifa University of Science and Technology (KUST) in Abu Dhabi, where his research involves the synthesis of near-IR materials for organic photovoltaics and iron-based materials for various applications, using various synthetic approaches, including mechanochemistry.

Education

• Post-Doctoral Fellow (2023-Present): Dept. of Chemistry, Khalifa University of Science and Technology.
• Post-Doctoral Fellow (2022-2023): Organic Photovoltaics, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Republic of South Korea
• Assistant Manger (2020-2022): Active pharmaceutical ingredients (API), UQUIFA Laboratory, Hyderabad, India.
• Ph.D (2015-2020): Chemical Science, CSIR-IICT, India.
• M.Sc in Organic Chemistry, Bapatla Engineering College, Andra Pradesh, India.

Affiliated Centers, Groups & Labs

• Center for Catalysis and Separation
• Khalifa University