Dr. K Vasanth Kumar's Home Page (Last updated 1 December 2013)
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K. Vasanth Kumar Marie Curie Research Fellow NCSR 'Demokritos' Aghia Paraskhevi, Athens E-mail: vasanth@chem.demokritos.com Ph: +30- 6934909549 & Laboratorio de Materiales Avanzados Departamento de Química Inorgánica-Universidad de Alicante Ctra. San Vicente, s/n-03690 San Vicente del Raspeig. Ph: E-mail: vasanth_vit[at]yahoo.com; vasanth[at]ua.es Ph+34-681091702
“Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.”
Educational Details ------------------------- Doctor
of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Chemical and Biological Engineering , Thesis title: Transfer of
impurities into crystals in industrial processes: Mechanism and kinetics. Doctor
of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Technology (Environmental Technology), Thesis title: Selection of
optimum adsorption isotherm and kinetics Post Graduate: Master
of Environmental Technology (M.Tech), Vellore Institute of Technology (Deemed University), Thesis title: Transport process
during the sorption of basic dyes onto low cost adsorbents Under Graduate: Bachelor
of Chemical Technology (B.Tech), Thesis title: Decolorization
of dye effluents using low cost adsorbents Awards/Honours ----------------------- *Gold medal Scientist for *International Scientist of The Year 2007 & 2012, awarded by Cambridge Biographical Society, *Biodata Indexed in Marqui's Who's Who in The World, 2007 and 2009 Edition *Total Citations from Scopus: >1500 (Nov 2012) *h-index: 24 (From Scopus) * Best Reviewer Certificate, American Chemical Society * Top 25 most cited author during the period 2005-2007, in the Journals 'Biochemical Engineering, Dyes and Pigments, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science and Process Biochemistry'
Some of my top-cited Articles
(from the Publisher webpage) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Equilibrium, kinetics, mechanism,
and process design for the sorption of methylene blue onto rice husk, Volume 286, Issue 1, 2005, Pp 90-100 (Journal of Colloid
and Interface Science), Rank 1st Top 10 Cited (2010) (articles published in the last five years) Modeling the mechanism involved
during the sorption of methylene blue onto fly ash, Volume 284, Issue 1, 2005, Pp 14-21 (Journal of Colloid and Interface
Science), Rank2nd Top 10 Cited (2010) (articles published in the last five years) Adsorption of malachite green
onto Pithophora sp., a fresh water algae: Equilibrium and kinetic modellin, Volume 40, Issue 8, 2005, Pp 2865-2872 (Process
Biochemistry), Rank 10th Top 10 Cited (2010) (articles published in the last five years) Removal of methylene blue
by mango seed kernel powder, Volume 27, Issue 1, 2005, Pp 83-93 (Biochemical Engineering Journal), Rank 9th Top 10 Cited (2010)
(articles published in the last five years)
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