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Dr Devaki Nandan

H S B Government PG College Someshwar, S.B.S. Government PG College Rudrapur, CSIRO Earth Science and Resource Engineering, Indian Institute of Petroleum CSIR

ORCID iD 0000-0003-0248-024X
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*Serving as a reviewer for many scholarly journal in the field of Catalysis

*Giving online lectures on online platform on YouTube for students to learn basic to advanced chemistry
https://www.youtube.com/c/GahtoriAcademyDrDevakiNandan
*Working as an Assistant Professor (contract) at H S B Government PG College Someshwar affiliated to S S J University Almora Since May 2025
* Worked as an Assistant Professor(contract) at S.B.S. Government PG College Rudrapur Affiliated to Kumaun University, Nainital from August 2024 to May 2025

* Worked as an Assistant Professor (contract) at Soban Singh Jeena University Campus Champawat, 06 August 2022 to August 2024

*Worked as an Assistant Professor (contract) at Government Degree College Tanakpur affiliated to Soban Singh Jeena University since 06 May 2020 to 05/08/2022

*Worked as an Assistant Professor (contract) at L S M P G College Pithoragarh affiliated to Kumaun University, since 26 October 2019 to 05 May 2020

*Worked as an Assistant Professor (contract) in PG College Champawat affiliated to Kumaun University, India, from November 2018 to October 2019.

*Worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher under the supervision of Prof. Radek Zboril, and with the Consultancy of Prof. Rajender Varma (US EPA/RCPTM) at Regional Centre of Advanced Technologies and Materials, Faculty of Science, Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic from 07/11/2016 to 11 July 2018 having the research topic "Catalytic properties of hybrid nanomaterials, advanced nanomaterials and its applications in Biomass, catalysis and energy".

*Worked as an assistant professor (contract) in SVPG College Lohaghat affiliated to Kumaun University, India, from October 2014 to October 2016.

*Doctoral research (Jan 2011 to June 2015) under the supervision of Dr. N. Viswanadham at CSIR-Indian Institute of Petroleum, Dehradun, India, towards "Synthesis of porous carbon composites and metal oxides for catalytic applications"

*During my PhD research I also worked in an Indo-Australia sponsored project titled
"Functionalized hierarchical nano composites materials for synthetic and renewable
fuels production" which provided me an opportunity to work in Prof. Ken Chiang’s lab at CSIRO Earth Science & Resource Engineering, Australia for one month.

*Worked as a Project Assistant Level - II (Aug 2009 to Nov 2010) under the supervision
of Dr. A.K. Siddhanta: In MoES funded project "Collection Identification and Chemical
Investigation of Marine Flora" at Marine Biotechnology and Ecology Discipline, CSIRCentral Salt and Marine Chemicals Research Institute Bhavnagar (364 021), Gujarat,
India. During this period, I have worked on

*Synthesis, characterisation and catalytic evaluation of new acid functionalized porous carbon composites.

*Developed a mechanism for base free oxidative esterification of alcohol on cobalt based catalytic material(https://images.app.goo.gl/ZrfHwvCDZdcWLJ96A)

*Synthesis, characterisation and catalytic evaluation of NiMo functionalized sulfonated carbon silica composites.

*Development of Hierarchical porous zeolites for bulky molecular transformations (Tertiarybutylation of phenol as a model reaction).

* Development of magnetically separable nano-structured porous carbon supported metaloxides for selective hydrogenation reactions.

*Synthesis of nano materials (copper nanoplate/copper nanotubes and
AlPO4/ZnAlPO4 nano-particles) for selective oxidation reactions.

*Characterization of materials by TGA, GPC, FTIR, SEM, BET, TPD, XRD, TEM etc. and their catalytic evaluation in high pressure Parr reactors, micro-fixed downflow reactor as well as in pilot plant.

*Modification of poly-saccharides specially alginate, agarose and chitogen, with different organic molecules such as saccharin et

E-mail- [email protected]

Employment

  • H S B Government PG College Someshwar Assistant Professor(Contract)
    2025 - Present
  • S.B.S. Government PG College Rudrapur Assistant Professor(Contract)
    2024 - 2025
  • Soban Singh Jeena University Campus Champawat Assistant Professor Contract
    2022 - 2024
  • Government Degree College Tanakpur Assistant Professor Contract
    2020 - 2022
  • L S M P G College Pithoragarh Assistant Professor Contract
    2019 - 2020
  • Government P G College Champawat Assistant Professor Contract
    2018 - 2019
  • Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci, Postdoctoral Researcher
    2016 - 2018
  • S V Government Post Graduate College, Lohaghat Visiting Lecturer
    2014 - 2016

Education

  • CSIRO Earth Science and Resource Engineering Exchange Research Student
    2014 - 2014
  • Indian Institute of Petroleum CSIR PhD (Academy of Scientific & innovative Research (AcSIR)
    2011 - 2015
  • Central Salt and Marine Chemicals Research Institute CSIR Project Fellow
    2009 - 2010

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Publications (18)