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Dr. Ramavatar Meena

CSIR-Central Salt and Marine Chemicals Research Institute, University of Rajasthan

ORCID iD 0000-0003-2757-797X
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Dr. Ramavatar Meena, Senior Principal Scientist, CSIR-CSMCRI-Bhavnagar, & Professor, AcSIR-Academy of Scientific & Innovative Research, Ghaziabad-201 002 has been awarded the prestigious Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) in recognition of his contribution to the field of value addition of Indian Seaweed biomass using simple and green chemistry approaches. Dr. Meena is known for his seminal work on the development of indigenous processes technologies for the industrial production of commercially important seaweed products & functional biomaterials for industry uses. His outputs are the big achievements to uplift the country and making India self-dependent on seaweed processing and their valuable products. His work will open new areas for Indian seaweed industries and also help to establish new seaweed industries for commercial production. His work also provides big opportunity to generate employment to coastal population in India through seaweed farming.
He is extensively working on an important institute mandate known as value addition of Indian seaweed biomass through chemical intervention. He is mainly developing downstream processing for seaweed biomass to obtain commercially important seaweed products such as agar, agarose, carrageenan, alginates, plant biostimulants/fertilizers, etc. He is also working on the functional modifications of natural polymers specifically seaweed polysaccharides to prepare novel biomaterials such as biosensor, self-healable gel, health care gels, bioactive substances, super adsorbents, drug carriers, bio-based membranes for separation, biodegradable packaging materials, etc. through chemical and physical interventions. In brief, he has authored more than 80 papers in prestigious journals, 19 patents, 6 book/chapters on seaweed biomass, and 48 invited talk/conference papers. In addition, he is the pioneer in developing indigenous technologies for the production of superior quality seaweed products, and he had successfully developed process technologies for more than 15 commercially important seaweed products, which have been successfully transferred to more than thirty (30) industries for commercial production of these seaweed products. He is recipient of several awards such as DST-SERC Fast Track Scheme for Young Scientists (2006); he was awarded the prestigious DST-BOYSCAST Fellowship in 2009 to carry out advanced research at Hamburg University, Hamburg, Germany; CSIR Award for S&T Innovations for Rural Development for the Year 2012; Associate Fellow Gujarat Science Academy; Life Member of IIMM; CSIR-CSMCRI Best Technology Award -2016 & 2018; IIMM outstanding Research Paper Award 2018; etc.

Employment

  • CSIR-Central Salt and Marine Chemicals Research Institute Senior Principal Scientist

Education

  • University of Rajasthan Ph.D.

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