Duane and Dorothy Bluemke Assistant Professor,
UW-Madison Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
krishna3@wisc.edu
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
- Early Career Board, Journal of Catalysis (2025-2027)
- Director, Catalysis Club of Chicago (2025-2027)
- 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, 2022
- 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 grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and 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. He launched the Krishna Sustainable Catalysis Research Group in the Chemical and Biological Engineering Department at UW-Madison in January 2022. There, he leads a dynamic research team designing catalyst materials for energy and sustainability applications, teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in Chemical and Biological Engineering, and serves the UW-Madison, chemical engineering, and catalysis communities.