PAPERS PUBLISHED IN BOOK AND BOOK CHAPTERS

• Protein Characterization by Thermal Property Measurement, in Glass Transition and Phase Transitions in Food and Biological Materials (ed J. Ahmed), John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK. ch14, 305-392. Ref: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9781118935682.ch14/summary
• Nanoparticles in clinical research: Benefits and Hazards. In Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. American Scientific Publishers. Ed. H. S. Nalwa, 2016. (In press)
• Toxicological Study of Nanoparticles: An Attempt to Relate Physicochemical Characters with Toxicity. Springer (In press).

PAPERS PUBLISHED IN JOURNALS

• Comparison of the elution characteristics of individual forms of lovastatin in both isocratic and gradient modes and HPLC-PDA method development for pure and fermentation derived lovastatin, Prep. Biochem. Biotechnol. 2017, 47 (9), 901-908.
• Cellular Localization and Production of Lovastatin from Monascus purpureus, Indian J. Pharm. Sci. 2017, (In Press) 
• Characterization of terephthalic acid monomer recycled from post-consumer PET polymer bottles.  Macromol Symp 2016, 361 (1), 30-33.
• Quantification of Lovastatin produced by Monascus purpureus. Open Biotechnol. J. 2015, 9: 6-13.
• Lovastatin nanoparticle synthesis and characterization for better drug delivery, Open Biotechnol. J. 2011; 5, 28-32.
• Characterization, modes of synthesis, and pleiotropic effects of hypocholesterolemic compounds – A review, Open Enzym. Inhib. J. 2011; 4, 23-32.
• Microbial production and biomedical applications of lovastatin. Indian J Pharm Sci. 2008; 70(6): 701-9.

• Lovastatin - A potent hypercholesterol drug. Chem. Weekly 2008, 53 (40), 193-6.

PAPERS PUBLISHED IN PROCEEDINGS OF CONFERENCES/SYMPOSIA (2007 onwards)

• Modelling of Metabolic Pathway of Lovastatin Biosynthesis, The 17th Congress, Asian Pacific Confederation of Chemical Engineering - Chemical Engineering for a Sustainably Developing World- the Role for the Asia Pacific Region, 23-27 August 2017, Hong Kong.
• Molecular insight on the inhibition of rate limiting step of cholesterol synthesis: Comparison of binding efficiency of statins – a platform for the screening of novel molecules- BIOT 565. In Division of Biochemical Technology, ACS National Meet at San Francisco, CA, USA, Apr 2-6, 2017.
• Pretreatment of Chitin - Biotechnological opportunity, World Biotechnology Congress - 2017, 20^th to 22^th  Feb 2017 at New Delhi, India.
• Microbial Cell Factories – A Versatile Material for the Reclamation of Heavy Metals Contaminated Soil. The International Journal of Arts & Sciences’ (IJAS) international conference, 8^th to 11^th Nov 2016, Paper ID: U6K984.
• Chitin and its derivatives: structure, production and their applications, International conference, SCOPES-2016, at CUTM, Odisha during 3^rd-5^th Oct 2016, p. 127-130, ISBN:CFP16H12-PRT/978-1-5090-4619-5
• Nanoparticles: hazard assessment based on physico‐chemical characterization, Indian International Conference on Air Quality Management (IICAQM‐2016) IIT Madras, Chennai, 15^th ‐16^th Feb. 2016.
• Characterization of terephthalic acid monomer recycled from post-consumer PET polymer bottles. 3^rd International Conference on Polymer Processing and Characterization (ICPPC-2014), M. G. Univ., Kottayam, Kerala on 11^th -13^th Oct 2014.  (IL-81).
• Recycling of polyethylene terephthalate by de-polymerization via alkaline hydrolysis to yield terephthalic acid. International Conference on Recent Advancement in Chemical, Environmental, and Energy Engineering (RACEE-2014), Chennai on 27^th to 28^th Feb 2014, page no. 42 (Abstract ID. 107).    
• Solid-state fermentation technology – a versatile tool for biological process. International Conference on Recent Advancement in Chemical, Environmental, and Energy Engineering (RACEE-2014), Chennai on 27^th to 28^th Feb 2014, page no. 47 (Abstract ID. 118).
• Biochemical Studies on lovastatin and simvastatin: biosynthesis and localization. Asian congress on biotechnology Proceedings, Shanghai, China on 11^th to 15^th May 2011, page no. 138 (Abstract ID. A1274).
• Biohydrogen: an effective alternate to fossil fuel in national conference on recent trends in alternative energy 2011 at NIT, Calicut, Kerala, page no. 36.  9-10th June 2011.
• Nano-assisted drug delivery system. Recent and Emerging Advances in Chemical Engineering (REACH-2010) Proceedings, International conference held at IIT Madras, Chennai. Dec 2-4, 2010.
• Nano-Assisted Carriers for Lovastatin Oral Delivery System. 2^nd international conference on materials for future (ICMF) Proceedings, 2011, Kerala on 23^rd to 25^th Feb, 2011, page no 79.
• Optimization of lovastatin production by Monascus purpureus MTCC 369 using Plackett-Burman and central composite statistical experimental design, 12^th International Symposium on Preparative and Industrial Chromatography and Allied techniques (SPICA 2008), Switzerland, Page no. 179. Sep 29^th to Oct 01^st, 2008.
• Nanoparticles and targeted systems for cancer therapy in SCHEMCON 2007 held at Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Annamalai Univ., Tamil Nadu, India. September 21^st-22^nd, 2007.

Assistant Professor, Department of Biotechnolgy, NIT Raipur            

June 2015 - Till date

Associate Professor, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, SSN College of Engineering 

Nov 2013 - June 2015

Assistant Professor, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, SSN College of Engineering 

July 2012 - Oct 2013