Principal Investigator

Duane and Dorothy Bluemke Assistant Professor,

UW-Madison Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering

krishna3@wisc.edu

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Henson Postdoctoral Fellow in Chemical Engineering, Purdue University (2019-2021)

Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison (2019)

B.S. Chemical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley (2014)

                            

Awards & Activities

  • President, Catalysis Club of Chicago (2024-2025)
  • Vice President and Program Chair, Catalysis Club of Chicago (2023-2024)
  • ACS Petroleum Research Fund Doctoral New Investigator Award
  • Purdue College of Engineering Outstanding Postdoc Award, 2021
  • International Congress on Catalysis Travel Award, 2020
  • Outstanding Reviewer, Reaction Chemistry & Engineering, 2020
  • Henson Postdoctoral Fellow, 2019
  • NSF Graduate Research Fellow, 2015
  • Phi Beta Kappa Honors Society, 2014

Biography

Siddarth H. Krishna was born in Torrance, CA in 1992 and grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area.  He obtained his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from UC-Berkeley (2010-2014), where he performed undergraduate research in aldol condensation catalysis for renewable fuels applications in the laboratory of Alexis T. Bell. He next obtained his PhD in Chemical Engineering from UW-Madison (2014-2019) as an NSF Graduate Research Fellow, working with James A. Dumesic and George W. Huber on the conversion mechanisms of biomass-derived intermediates to renewable chemicals over metal and acid catalysts. He was then a Henson Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Purdue University (2019-2021), where he performed research in the laboratory of Rajamani Gounder on understanding active site requirements for automotive nitric oxide pollution abatement over metal-exchanged zeolites. In his free time, he enjoys travel, hiking, ultimate frisbee, surveying Madison dining establishments, and cheering on the Badgers and Golden Bears.