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DR. PRAVEEN SAROJAM

•Experience in Analytical Chemistry for more than 10 years

•Published 11 papers in Peer reviewed journals

•19 International conference papers (U.S, UK, Germany, Singapore, Thailand, India etc.)

•Work experience with R&D teams in Singapore and Shelton of PerkinElmer Inc.

•17 application notes published for PerkinElmer

•11 articles published for PerkinElmer, published 1 monograph

•Achieved a business target of 10 million AED during the year 2013

•Qualified trainer for AA, ICP-OES, ICP-MS and microwave assisted sample preparation techniques.

•Done 4 webcasts for PerkinElmer

•Best Performer award at PerkinElmer for 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012

•Editorial for Labor Praxis the German lab magazine

•Reviewer for Journals ACA (Science Direct), Analytical Methods, RSc Advances (RSc)

•Membership in AOAC International, AOAC India and APCBEES.

•Guided and managed a team of 10 people across 4 countries in the previous job

•Guiding and managing a team of 7 lab technicians and junior chemists in the current job

MAJOR AWARDS/FELLOWSHIPS

2012: Top Performer Award at PerkinElmer 2011: Top Performer Award at PerkinElmer 2010: Top Performer Award at PerkinElmer 2009: Top Performer Award at PerkinElmer 2002: UGC National Eligibility Test for Lectureship (University Grants Commission, India) 2002: CSIR Junior Research Fellowship (Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India) 1997: Gold Medal for excellence in Chemistry at Graduate level (University College, Trivandrum).

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS AND INTERESTS Doctoral research was focused on online and offline enrichment strategies based on solid phase extraction prior to flame atomic absorption spectrophotometric determination of traces of inorganics which involved the development of several materials suitable for using as column materials in FIA/IC. Involved in the development of drug delivery system based on imprinting technique for the controlled release of metal-based therapeutic agents. Currently handling several time bound projects regarding the analysis of food, fish, fuel oil, biodiesel, fertilizers, polymers, soil, edible oil, drinking and waste water, spices and herbs etc with Flame AA, Graphite furnace AA, ICP-OES and ICP-MS. Also worked on the speciation of inorganic using FIAS and AAS/ICP.

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE AND EXPERTISE

10 years including the 4 & 1/2 years research experience during PhD at National Institute 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, hydride generation and cold vapor techniques). 4.Inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectroscopy. 5.Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry 6.Speciation using LC-ICPMS and FIA-AAS 7.Hyphenation between flow injection analyzing system and AAS/ICP. 8.Synthesis and characterization of ion imprinted polymers to be used in on line pre-concentration of trace metal ions. 9.Sample preparation for trace inorganic analysis using open digestion, extraction and microwave digestion. 10.Drafted and published many application notes at PerkinElmer. 11.Has trained many people in PerkinElmer for using FAAS/GFAAS/ICP/ICPMS etc. 12.Trained customers in middle east countires on ICPMS, LC-ICPMS, ICPOES, FAAS, GFAAS etc. who were from petro/pharma/academic/oil and gas/lube oil/food/agriculture segments 10. Reviewed many articles done by the application teams in India and China (for PerkinElmer). 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 for

     AAS and ICP-OES.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Institution Role Handled No of years Kendriya Vidyalaya, Akkulam, Trivandrum Lecturer in Chemistry 1 year PerkinElmer Global Application center, (Mumbai and U.S.A) Trainer for Atomic Spectroscopy 3 years PerkinElmer Talent Academy (Mumbai, India) Trainer for Atomic Spectroscopy 1 year, 2 months Emphor Science Park (PerkinElmer Training Centre), Dubai, UAE Trainer for Atomic Spectroscopy and related techniques and director of the lab 1 year, 6 months

PAPERS REVIEWED

1.For “ANALYTICAL METHODS” from “Royal Society of Chemistry” -3 Nos. 2.For “ANALYTIC CHIMICA ACTA” from “ELSEVIER” -15 Nos. 3.For “RSc Advances” from “Royal Society of Chemistry” -1 Nos. 4. For Talanta -1 Nos

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS (PEER REVIEWED JOURNALS)

1.Determination of Lead in Water Using Amberlite XAD-2 Functionalized With Xylenol Orange Resin as Column Material for On-line Flow Injection-Flame Atomic Absorption Spectrometry Analysis, Saxena, R. ; Saxena, S. ; Sarojam, P.; Atomic Spectroscopy, 33, 3; (2012) 83-91

2.Metal-chelate embedded and imprinted polymer materials as drug delivery vehicles for the controlled release of copper salicylate, an anti-inflammatory drug, V.S.Sumi, R.Kala, R.S.Praveen, G.R.K.Naidu and T.Prasada Rao, Int. J. Pharm. 349 (2008) 30–37

3.Dithiocarbamate functionalized or surface sorbed Merrifield resin beads as column materials for on line flow injection–flame atomic absorption spectrometry determination of lead R.S. Praveen, G.R.K. Naidu and T. Prasada Rao. Anal.Chim.Acta 600 (2007) 205–213

4.Ternary ion-association complex based ion imprinted polymers (IIPs) for trace determination of palladium (II) in environmental samples Sobhi Daniel, R.S. Praveen, T.Prasada Rao Anal. Chim.Acta, 570 (2006) 79-87

5.Flow injection on-line solid phase extractive preconcentration of palladium (II) in dust and rock samples using exfoliated graphite packed microcolumns and determinationby flame atomic absorption spectrometry R.S. Praveen , S. Daniel , T. Prasada Rao,S. Sampath , K. Sreenivasa Rao. Talanta 70 (2006) 437–443

6.Online Flow Injection Preconcentration and Flame Atomic Absorption Spectrometric Determination of Palladium (II) Using Inorganic and Inorganic-Organic Hybrid Materials–Packed Microcolumns. R.S.Praveen, Sobhi Daniel,and T.Prasada Rao Analytical Letters, 39: 1187–1199,( 2006)

7.On-line Flow Injection Flame AAS Determination of Cobalt in Soil and Sediment Samples 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)

8.Solid phase extraction preconcentration of cobalt and nickel with 5,7- dichloroquinone-8-ol embedded styrene–ethylene glycol dimethacrylate polymer particles and determination by flame atomic absorption spectrometry (FAAS) R.S. Praveen, Sobhi Daniel, T. Prasada Rao Talanta 66 (2005) 513–520

9.Solid phase extractive preconcentration of uranium (VI) using quinoline-8-ol anchored chloromethylated polymeric resin beads R.S. Praveen, P. Metilda, S. Daniel, T. Prasada Rao Talanta 67 (2005) 960–967

10.Sequential Preconcentrative Separation of Cr(VI) and Cr(III) Species From Tannery Effluents and Subsequent Determination by Flame AAS. K. Prasad, R.S. Praveen, and T. Prasada Rao Atomic Spectroscopy 173 Vol. 26(5), (2005)

11.Styrene–Divinyl Benzene Copolymers: Synthesis, Characterization, and Their Role in Inorganic Trace Analysis T. Prasada Rao, R. S. Praveen, and Sobhi Daniel Critical Reviews in Analytical Chemistry, 34:177–193, (2004)

LIST OF PRESENTATIONS IN CONFERENCES

1.U.S. EPA method 200.7 for the analysis of drinking and waste water, using Optima 8300 ICP-OES, Praveen Sarojam, Charles Schnieder (Oral presentation at PittCon March 11-15, 2012, Orlando, Florida, U.S.A)

2.Analysis of Micronutrients and Toxic heavy Metals in soil using Optima 7300 DV ICP-OES, Praveen Sarojam, Dennis Yates (Poster presentation at EmCon 2011, Copen Hagen, Denmark 22-25 August, 2011)

3.Speciative determination of chromium in toy samples using FIA-FAAS, Praveen Sarojam, Erik Buseth (poster presentation at METALOMICS 2011, Munster, Germany, June15-18, 2011)

4.Heavy metal characterization of Chinese spices and herbs using GFAAS and CVAAS, Praveen Sarojam and Debbie Hoult (Oral presentation at the First International conference on Food and Environment – The Quest for a sustainable future, New Forest, U.K during June 21-23, 2011)

5.Metal Characterization of Soil Extracts prepared according to ISO 19730 for ensuring Environmental Health, Praveen Sarojam (Oral presentation at the First Environment Asia International Conference held at Bangkok, Thailand, during 22-25th of March 2011)

6.Heavy Metal Characterization of Chinese Spices and Herbs using GFAAS, CVAAS and ICPMS, Praveen Sarojam (Poster presentation at the First Environment Asia International Conference held at Bangkok, Thailand, during 22-25th of March 2011)

7.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 124th AOAC annual meeting and exposition, (Poster) during Sept 26-29, 2010, Florida, U.S.A)

8.Analysis of drinking water using a simultaneous ICP-OES for trace metal contamination, Praveen Sarojam (Presented at the Singapore International Water Week (Poster), during 28th June-2nd July 2010, Singapore)

9.Trace Metal analysis of drinking water and waste water using a simultaneous ICP-OES for regulatory Compliance, Praveen Sarojam (Presented at the Singapore International Water Week, during 28th June-2nd July 2010, Singapore)

10.Quality Control of Biodiesel Using an ICP-OES for trace metals determination Praveen Sarojam (Presented in the “New Frontiers in Biofuels” conference, January 18-19, 2010, New Delhi, India)

11.Analysis of drinking and waste water using AA and ICP for regulatory compliance Praveen Sarojam (Presented in the Everything about Water Expo, Chennai, India, Jaunary 6-7, 2010)

12.Analysis of Automobile Industry Effluents with a Simultaneous ICP-OES as per USEPA Method 200.7 Praveen Sarojam, Laura Thompson, Zoe Grosser (Presented at PittCon 2010, Feb 28-March 3, Florida, USA)

13.Trace Elemental Characterization of Edible Oils with Graphite Furnace Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer Praveen Sarojam, Anil Nimkar, and Zoe Grosser (Presented at PittCon 2010, Feb 28-March 3, Florida, USA).

14.Trace Metal Characterization of Fish and Seafood with a Flame and Graphite Furnace Atomic Absorption Spectrophotomer Praveen Sarojam, Anil Nimkar, Zoe Grosser (Presented at PittCon 2010, Feb 28-March 3, Florida, USA).

15.Quality control of biofuels using an Inductively Coupled Plasma Optical Emission Spectrophotometer for metals determination. R.S Praveen, Lee Davidowski, Laura Thompson, presented at PittCon 2009, Chicago, USA, during March 8-13, 2009

16.The analysis of baby food and juices for metals to protect a sensitive population Praveen Sarojam, Lee Dawidowski, Zoe Grosser (Presented at PittCon 2009, March 8-13, Chicago, USA).

17.Dithiocarbamate functionalized or surface sorbed Merrifield resin beads as column materials for on-line flow injection-flame atomic absorption spectrometric determination of Cadmium. R.S. Praveen and T. Prasada Rao presented at International Conference for Materials for the millenium, MATCON 2007 held at CUSAT ,Cochin, Kerala, India during March 1-3, 2007

18.Flow injection on-line solid phase extractive preconcentration of palladium (II) in dust and rock samples using exfoliated graphite packed microcolumns and determination by flame atomic absorption spectrometry R.S. Praveen , S. Daniel T.Prasada Rao,S. Sampath,K.SreenivasaRao (presented in the National Conference on Analytical Chemistry Organized by ISAS, BARC held at Munnar, Kerala, India, during 30 April-1 May 2006)

19.Synthesis of palladium (II) ion imprinted polymer particles and its application to the solid phase extractive preconcentration, separation and determination of palladium in environmental samples, Sobhi Daniel, R.S. Praveen and T. Prasada Rao, (Presented at National Conference on the role of Analytical Chemistry in Materials Science and Technology held at Munnar, Kerala, India, during 30 April-1 May 2006). Conference Proceedings 1.Dithiocarbamate functionalized or surface sorbed Merrifield resin beads as column materials for on-line flow injection-flame atomic absorption spectrometric determination of Lead. R.S. Praveen and T. Prasada Rao. “International conference on flow analysis”, Portugal, September, 2006.

EDITORIALS

1.Trace metal analysis in drinking water, October, 2010 for the German lab magazine LoborPraxis.

APPLICATION NOTES PUBLISHED AT WWW.PERKINELMER.COM

1.Determination of Arsenic in Baby Foods and Fruit Juices using GFAAS, 2008 2.Quality Control of Biofuels using an Inductively Coupled Plasma Optical Emission Spectrophotometer (ICP-OES) for Metals determination, 2009 3.The Analysis of Baby Foods and Juices for Metals to Protect a Sensitive Population, 2009 4.Trace Elemental Characterization of Edible Oils with Graphite Furnace Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer, 2009 5.Analysis of Micronutrients in Soil by Using AA 800 Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer, 2009 6.Analysis of Essential, Trace and Heavy Metals in Drinking Water by Flame AA and Graphite Furnace AA, 2009 7.Analysis of Organic Fertilizers for Nutrients with AAnalyst 800 Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer, 2009 8.Analysis of Fish and Seafoods with AAnalyst 800 Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer for Trace Metal Contamination, in Accordance with AOAC Methods 999.10 and 999.11, 2009 9.Analysis of waste water as per EPA 200.7, 2010 10.Environmental sample analysis using the Optima 7000 DV ICP-OES, 2010 11.Analysis of Pb, Cd, As in chineese spices and herbs using GFAAS, 2010 12.Analysis of Hg in chineese herbs and spices using CVAAS, 2010 13.Trace metal characterization of soils using Optima 7300 DV ICP-OES, 2010 14.Analysis of surface and bottled water using Optima 7300 DV ICP-OES, 2011 15.Analysis of As, Pb and Cd in spices and herbs using the new PinAAcle GFAAS, 2011 16.Analysis of As, Pb and Cd in tea leaves using the new PinAAcle GFAAS, 2011 17.Analysis of essential nutrients in spices and herbs using the new PinAAcle FAAS, 2011

WEBCASTS AT WWW.PERKIELMER.COM

1.Quality control of biofuels using an ICP OES, 2009 2.Waste water analysis as per USEPA 200.7, 2010 3.Analysis of Fish and Sea Foods using Flame and GFAAS, 2010 4.Analysis of edible oil with GFAAS, 2010

TALKS FOR PERKINELMER

1.Applications with PinAAcle AAS and Optima 8X00 ICP - An Overview –in connection with the New Product Launch in India, Hyderabad, September 14, 2011 2.Applications with PinAAcle AAS and Optima 8X00 ICP - An Overview –in connection with the New Product Launch in India, Chennai, September 15, 2011 3.Applications with PinAAcle AAS and Optima 8X00 ICP - An Overview –in connection with the New Product Launch in India, NewDelhi, September 16, 2011

MONOGRAPH

1.Standard Operating Procedures for Analysis of Metal Based Ayurvedic Preparations including Bhasmas

ARTICLES PUBLISHED

1.The analysis of Biodiesel for Inorganic Contaminants, using Atomic Spectroscopy Techniques in SciTopics which is part of Scirus.Com from Elsevier 2.The Analysis of Baby Foods and Juices for Metals to Protect a Sensitive Population in SciTopics which is part of Scirus.Com from Elsevier 3.The analysis of Pb, Cd and As in Chineese spices and herbs using GFAAS The Analysis of Baby Foods and Juices for Metals to Protect a Sensitive Population in SciTopics which is part of Scirus.Com from Elsevier 4. Analysis of micronutrients in soil using Flame AAS (EPA 3052) March 2010 5. Analysis of Fish and sea foods as per AOAC 999.10 and AOAC 999.11, March 2010 ARTICLES PUBLISHED AT WWW.PERKINELMER.COM

1.The Analysis of Baby Foods and Juices for (As) to Protect a Sensitive Population, 2009 2.The quality control of biodiesel with a simultaneous ICP-OES for trace metal determination, 2009 3.Trace metal characterization of edible oils using GFAAS, 2010 4.Analysis of Arsenic, Cadmium and Lead in Chinese Spice Mixtures using Graphite Furnace Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometry, 2010