CV-Snapshot Ramachandran Sarojam Praveen, PhD Global ...

CV-SnapshotRamachandran Sarojam Praveen, PhDGlobal Application Specialist, Atomic Spectroscopy DivisionPerkinElmer Global Application CentrePerkinElmer Inc. Mumbai 400 059Phone: +91-22-67687318, Fax: +91-22-67687308E-mail: praveen.rs@rediffmail.comPraveen.Sarojam@perkinelmer.comDate of Birth : May 30, 1977(Trivandrum, Kerala, India)Academic Background:B.Sc. 1997, Kerala UniversityM.Sc. 1999, Kerala UniversityB. Ed 2001, Kerala UniversityPh.D. 2009, Kerala UniversityProfessional Background:Global Application Specialist, PerkinElmer Global Application Centre, Mumbai 2008-todate.Trainings Received: FAAS, GFAAS, ICP-OES, Microwave Digestion (All at PerkinElmerU.S.A)- 2008FAAS, GFAAS- PerkinElmer Singapore, 2011Honors/Awards/ Fellowships:1997 : Gold Medal for excellence in Chemistry at Graduate level2002 : CSIR Junior Research Fellowship2002 : UGC National Eligibility Test for Lectureship2009 : Top Performer Award at PerkinElmer2010 : Top Performer Award at PerkinElmerPapers reviewed:1. For “ANALYTICAL METHODS” from “Royal Society of Chemistry”2. For “ANALYTIC CHIMICA ACTA” from “ELSEVIER”Publications (as of July 2010):In refereed Journals -10;Conferences -15; (Including 2 papers in PittCon 2009, 3papers in PittCon 2010, 2 papers in Singapore Water Week SIWW 2010, 2 inEnvironment Asia International conference, Thailand)

Monograph - 01;Application Notes at PerkinElmer -14;Webcasts at PerkinElmer -04;Articles (online) -11;Research Interests/Expertise:8 years experience in research and application development for Flow Injection analysis,Atomic Absorption spectroscopy (flame, graphite furnace, and hydride generation),inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectroscopy, Ion imprinted polymers,environmental and food sample analysis, inorganic speciation using FIAS and AAS/ICP.Part of New Product Introduction team at Singapore/USA for PerkinElmer.Curriculum VitaeRamachandran Sarojam Praveen, PhDGlobal Application Specialist, Atomic Spectroscopy DivisionPerkinElmer Global Application CentrePerkinElmer Inc. Mumbai 400 059Phone: +91-22-67687318, Fax: +91-22-67687308E-mail: praveen.rs@rediffmail.comPraveen.Sarojam@perkinelmer.com Personal DetailsDate and place of birthNationalityMarital StatusName of SpousePresent PositionResidence Academic details: May 30, 1977, Trivandrum, Kerala: Indian: Married (Two children): Sreeja Unnithan (Chemistry Teacher): Global Application Specialist: 201, H1, Asawari, Lokpuram, Off. Pokhran Road No:2,Thane (West), Mumbai 400 610, Maharashtra, India. Ph: +91-22-40809403_______________________________________________________________________DEGREE YEAR UNIVERSITY CLASS SUBJECTB. Sc. 1997 Kerala First ChemistryM. Sc. 1999 Kerala First ChemistryB.Ed 2001 Kerala First Physical SciencesPhD 2009 Kerala Analytical Chemistry_______________________________________________________________________

Employment RecordGlobal Application Specialist at PerkinElmer Global Application Centre Mumbai fromFebruary 2008 till date Major Awards/Fellowships1997 : Gold Medal for excellence in Chemistry at Graduate level (University College,Trivandrum).2002 : CSIR Junior Research Fellowship (Council of Scientific and Industrial Research,India)2002 : UGC National Eligibility Test for Lectureship (University Grants Commission,India)2009 : Top Performer Award at PerkinElmer2010 : Top Performer Award at PerkinElmer Research Highlights and interestsDoctoral research was focused on online and offline enrichment strategies based onsolid phase extraction prior to flame atomic absorption spectrophotometricdetermination of traces of inorganics which involved the development of severalmaterials suitable for using as column materials in FIA/IC.Involved in the development of drug delivery system based on imprinting technique forthe controlled release of metal-based therapeutic agents.Currently handling several time bound projects regarding the analysis of food, fish,naphtha, fertilizers, soil, edible oil, drinking and waste water, spices and herbs etc withFlame AA, Graphite furnace AA and ICP-OES. Also working for the speciation ofinorganics using FIAS and AAS/ICP. Research experience and expertise8 years including the 4 & 1/2 years research experience during PhD at NationalInstitute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology (NIIST),CSIR, Trivandrum 695 019,India. Expertise in,1. Flow injection analysis of geological and environmental samples.2. Inorganic speciation.3. Atomic Absorption spectroscopy (Including Flame, Graphite furnace, hydridegeneration and cold vapor techniques).

4. Inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectroscopy.5. Hyphenation between flow injection analyzing system and AAS/ICP.6. Synthesis and characterization of ion imprinted polymers to be used in on linepre-concentration of trace metal ions.7. Sample preparation for trace inorganic analysis using open digestion, extractionand microwave digestion.8. Drafted and published many application notes at PerkinElmer.9. Has trained many people in PerkinElmer for using FAAS/GFAAS/ICP etc.10. Reviewed many articles done by the application teams in India and China (forPerkinElmer).11. Has done many oral and poster presentations in India and abroad.12. Has done several webcasts at PerkinElmer.12. Has been associated with PerkinElmer R&D for the New Product Introduction forAAS and ICP-OES. Teaching ExperienceGuest Lecturer in Chemistry at Kendriya Vidyalaya, Air force Camp, Akkulam,Trivandrum, Kerala. Visits abroad1. U.S.A during March-April 2008, to receive training on AAS, GFAAS, ICP-OES,microwave digestion etc. and to participate in “Conference on Biofuels” at theUniversity of Connecticut.2. U.S.A during March 2009, to give oral presentation in PittCon 2009 and to dowebcasts for the projects which were presented at PittCon 2009.3. Singapore during May-June 2010 to give oral and poster presentations at theSingapore International water week 2010.4. Singapore during February 2011, to assist PerkinElmer R&D team in the new productintroduction for AAS.5. Thailand during March 2011 to give oral and poster presentations at the “FirstEnvironment Asia International conference” Papers Reviewed1. For “ANALYTICAL METHODS” from “Royal Society of Chemistry”2. For “ANALYTIC CHIMICA ACTA” from “ELSEVIER”

Presented at various conferences1. Trace Metal Characterization of Soil Extracts prepared according to ISO 19730 forensuring Environmental Health, Praveen Sarojam (Oral presentation at the FirstEnvironment Asia International Conference held at Bangkok, Thailand, during 22-25 th of March 2011)2. Heavy Metal Characterization of Chinese Spices and Herbs using GFAAS, CVAASand ICPMS (Poster presentation at the First Environment Asia InternationalConference held at Bangkok, Thailand, during 22-25 th of March 2011)3. The Analysis of Baby Foods and Juice for Metals to Protect a Sensitive Population,Lee Davidowski, Ph.D., Zoe Grosser, Ph.D., and Praveen Sarojam, Ph.D.(Presented at the 124 th AOAC annual meeting and exposition, (Poster) duringSept 26-29, 2010, Florida, U.S.A)4. Analysis of drinking water using a simultaneous ICP-OES for trace metalcontamination, Praveen Sarojam (Presented at the Singapore InternationalWater Week (Poster), during 28 th June-2 nd July 2010, Singapore)5. Trace Metal analysis of drinking water and waste water using a simultaneous ICP-OES for regulatory Compliance, Praveen Sarojam (Presented at the SingaporeInternational Water Week, during 28 th June-2 nd July 2010, Singapore)6. Quality Control of Biodiesel Using an ICP-OES for trace metals determinationPraveen Sarojam (Presented in the “New Frontiers in Biofuels” conference,January 18-19, 2010, New Delhi, India)7. Analysis of drinking and waste water using AA and ICP for regulatory compliancePraveen Sarojam (Presented in the Everything about Water Expo, Chennai, India,Jaunary 6-7, 2010)8. Analysis of Automobile Industry Effluents with a Simultaneous ICP-OES as perUSEPA Method 200.7 Praveen Sarojam, Laura Thompson, Zoe Grosser (Presentedat PittCon 2010, Feb 28-March 3, Florida, USA)

9. Trace Elemental Characterization of Edible Oils with Graphite Furnace AtomicAbsorption Spectrophotometer Praveen Sarojam, Anil Nimkar, and Zoe Grosser(Presented at PittCon 2010, Feb 28-March 3, Florida, USA).10. Trace Metal Characterization of Fish and Seafood with a Flame and GraphiteFurnace Atomic Absorption Spectrophotomer Praveen Sarojam, Anil Nimkar, ZoeGrosser (Presented at PittCon 2010, Feb 28-March 3, Florida, USA).11. Quality control of biofuels using an Inductively Coupled Plasma Optical EmissionSpectrophotometer for metals determination. R.S Praveen, Lee Davidowski,Laura Thompson, presented at PittCon 2009, Chicago, USA, during March 8-13,200912. The analysis of baby food and juices for metals to protect a sensitive populationPraveen Sarojam, Lee Dawidowski, Zoe Grosser (Presented at PittCon 2009,March 8-13, Chicago, USA).13. Dithiocarbamate functionalized or surface sorbed Merrifield resin beads ascolumn materials for on-line flow injection-flame atomic absorptionspectrometric determination of Cadmium. R.S. Praveen and T. Prasada Raopresented at International Conference for Materials for the millenium, MATCON2007 held at CUSAT ,Cochin, Kerala, India during March 1-3, 200714. Flow injection on-line solid phase extractive preconcentration of palladium (II) indust and rock samples using exfoliated graphite packed microcolumns anddetermination by flame atomic absorption spectrometry R.S. Praveen , S.Daniel T.Prasada Rao,S. Sampath,K.SreenivasaRao (presented in the NationalConference on Analytical Chemistry Organized by ISAS, BARC held at Munnar,Kerala, India, during 30 April-1 May 2006)15. Synthesis of palladium (II) ion imprinted polymer particles and its application tothe solid phase extractive preconcentration, separation and determination ofpalladium in environmental samples, Sobhi Daniel, R.S. Praveen and T. PrasadaRao, (Presented at National Conference on the role of Analytical Chemistry inMaterials Science and Technology held at Munnar, Kerala, India, during 30 April-1 May 2006).

Conference Proceedings1. Dithiocarbamate functionalized or surface sorbed Merrifield resin beads ascolumn materials for on-line flow injection-flame atomic absorptionspectrometric determination of Lead. R.S. Praveen and T. Prasada Rao.“International conference on flow analysis”, Portugal, September, 2006. Editorial1. Trace metal analysis in drinking water, October, 2010 for the German labmagazine LoborPraxis. Application Notes published in PerkinElmer Inc. (From 2008 onwards) available atwww.perkinelmer.com1. Determination of Arsenic in Baby Foods and Fruit Juices using GFAAS, 20082. Quality Control of Biofuels using an Inductively Coupled Plasma Optical EmissionSpectrophotometer (ICP-OES) for Metals determination, 20093. The Analysis of Baby Foods and Juices for Metals to Protect a SensitivePopulation, 20094. Trace Elemental Characterization of Edible Oils with Graphite Furnace AtomicAbsorption Spectrophotometer, 20095. Analysis of Micronutrients in Soil by Using AA 800 Atomic AbsorptionSpectrophotometer, 20096. Analysis of Essential, Trace and Heavy Metals in Drinking Water by Flame AA andGraphite Furnace AA, 20097. Analysis of Organic Fertilizers for Nutrients with AAnalyst 800 Atomic AbsorptionSpectrophotometer, 20098. Analysis of Fish and Seafoods with AAnalyst 800 Atomic AbsorptionSpectrophotometer for Trace Metal Contamination, in Accordance with AOACMethods 999.10 and 999.11, 20099. Analysis of waste water as per EPA 200.7, 201010. Environmental sample analysis using the Optima 7000 DV ICP-OES, 201011. Analysis of Pb, Cd, As in chineese spices and herbs using GFAAS, 201012. Analysis of Hg in chineese herbs and spices using CVAAS, 2010

13. Trace metal characterization of soils using Optima 7300 DV ICP-OES, 201014. Analysis of surface and bottled water using Optima 7300 DV ICP-OES, 2011 Webcasts done in PerkinElmer Inc., available at www.perkinelmer.com1. Quality control of biofuels using an ICP OES, 20092. Waste water analysis as per USEPA 200.7, 20103. Analysis of Fish and Sea Foods using Flame and GFAAS, 20104. Analysis of edible oil with GFAAS, 2010 Monograph1. Standard Operating Procedures for Analysis of Metal Based AyurvedicPreparations including Bhasmas Articles Published (External)1. The analysis of Biodiesel for Inorganic Contaminants, using Atomic SpectroscopyTechniques in SciTopics which is part of Scirus.Com from Elsevier2. The Analysis of Baby Foods and Juices for Metals to Protect a SensitivePopulation in SciTopics which is part of Scirus.Com from Elsevier3. The analysis of Pb, Cd and As in Chineese spices and herbs using GFAAS TheAnalysis of Baby Foods and Juices for Metals to Protect a Sensitive Population inSciTopics which is part of Scirus.Com from Elsevier Articles Published (Internal-“Fresh” Journal) available at www.perkinelmer.com1. The Analysis of Baby Foods and Juices for (As) to Protect a Sensitive Population,20092. The quality control of biodiesel with a simultaneous ICP-OES for trace metaldetermination, 20093. Trace metal characterization of edible oils using GFAAS, 20104. Analysis of Arsenic, Cadmium and Lead in Chinese Spice Mixtures using GraphiteFurnace Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometry, 2010 Articles published in SpctroscopyOnline.Com1. Analysis of micronutrients in soil using Flame AAS (EPA 3052) March 20102. Analysis of Fish and sea foods as per AOAC 999.10 and AOAC 999.11, March 2010 List of publications (Peer reviewed journals)1. Metal-chelate embedded and imprinted polymer materials as drug deliveryvehicles for the controlled release of copper salicylate, an anti-inflammatorydrug, V.S.Sumi, R.Kala, R.S.Praveen, G.R.K.Naidu and T.Prasada Rao, Int. J.Pharm. 349 (2008) 30–372. Dithiocarbamate functionalized or surface sorbed Merrifield resin beads as

column materials for on line flow injection–flame atomic absorptionspectrometry determination of lead R.S. Praveen, G.R.K. Naidu and T. PrasadaRao. Anal.Chim.Acta 600 (2007) 205–2133. Ternary ion-association complex based ion imprinted polymers (IIPs) for tracedetermination of palladium (II) in environmental samples Sobhi Daniel, R.S.Praveen, T.Prasada Rao Anal. Chim.Acta, 570 (2006) 79-874. Flow injection on-line solid phase extractive preconcentration of palladium (II) indust and rock samples using exfoliated graphite packed microcolumns anddeterminationby flame atomic absorption spectrometry R.S. Praveen , S. Daniel ,T. Prasada Rao,S. Sampath , K. Sreenivasa Rao. Talanta 70 (2006) 437–4435. Online Flow Injection Preconcentration and Flame Atomic AbsorptionSpectrometric Determination of Palladium (II) Using Inorganic andInorganic- Organic Hybrid Materials–Packed Microcolumns. R.S.Praveen,Sobhi Daniel,and T.Prasada Rao Analytical Letters, 39: 1187–1199,( 2006)6. On-line Flow Injection Flame AAS Determination of Cobalt in Soil and SedimentSamples With 5,7-Dichloroquinoline-8-ol-Embedded Polymeric Materials R.S.Praveen, Sobhi Daniel, and T. Prasada Rao Atomic Spectroscopy 35 Vol. 27(2),(2006)7. Solid phase extraction preconcentration of cobalt and nickel with 5,7-dichloroquinone-8-ol embedded styrene–ethylene glycol dimethacrylate polymerparticles and determination by flame atomic absorption spectrometry (FAAS)R.S. Praveen, Sobhi Daniel, T. Prasada Rao Talanta 66 (2005) 513–5208. Solid phase extractive preconcentration of uranium (VI) using quinoline-8-olanchored chloromethylated polymeric resin beads R.S. Praveen, P. Metilda, S.Daniel, T. Prasada Rao Talanta 67 (2005) 960–9679. Sequential Preconcentrative Separation of Cr(VI) and Cr(III) Species FromTannery Effluents and Subsequent Determination by Flame AAS. K. Prasad, R.S.Praveen, and T. Prasada Rao Atomic Spectroscopy 173 Vol. 26(5), (2005)10. Styrene–Divinyl Benzene Copolymers: Synthesis, Characterization, and TheirRole in Inorganic Trace Analysis T. Prasada Rao, R. S. Praveen, and Sobhi DanielCritical Reviews in Analytical Chemistry, 34:177–193, (2004)