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Praveen.Kumar.Jaya.Balaji
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Talent4BBI PhD Student based in EPFL in Switzerland

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PhD Student
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Biomass valorization, catalysis, heterogeneous reaction engineering
Master of technology in chemical engineering with specialization in process design engineering

Welfare and inclusion officer in BiOrbic & EDI committee (2022 – 2023)

University rank holder (M Tech) (2019 – 2021)

University rank holder (B Tech) (2015 – 2019)

Praveen Kumar is a Talent4BBI Marie Sklodowska Curie PhD researcher, managed by BiOrbic, the Bioeconomy SFI Research Centre located in University College Dublin (UCD), at Bloom biorenewables (Industrial partner) and EPFL (Academic partner) in Switzerland. After completing his masters, he has worked as a consultant for global fortune 500 companies within the chemicals and natural materials domain.

He is very passionate about technologies around biomass valorization and his research focusses on providing petrochemical industry with sustainable carbon to propel our bioeconomy. Currently, he is working on valorizing different end of life biomass feedstocks by fractionating to its components and upgrading the obtained sugars and lignin monomers to platform chemicals that caters different industries.