Viswaraja Sasikumar
A-14, KrishnaKutir C.H.S,
Anand Nagar, Dombivli (West),
Thane District, Maharashtra, India
Phone: +91-8879116380 (Cell)
Email: viswaraja@gmail.com
Personal Details
Date of Birth:
06th May 1982
Marital Status:
Married
Nationality:
Indian
Educational Qualifications
Ph.D. Candidate – Chemistry
AFM Group, Organic Thin Films Laboratory, School of Natural Sciences, Hanyang University, Seoul (South Korea)
[August 2010 – July 2011]
Research Area:
Atomic Force Microscopy of Live cells / Soft Matter
Studies on novel photoresists for AFM, Electron-beam Lithography, AFM Lithography
M.Sc. (By Research) - Chemistry
The Institute of Science, Mumbai - University of Mumbai (October 2003- September 2008)
Title of the Thesis: Kinetics of oxidation of some alcohols
B.Sc. (Chemistry) – University of Mumbai (2000-2003)
Work Experience
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Worked as Product Development Manager with Emphor FZCO, LAS Division, Dubai, UAE (Channel
partner for Perkin Elmer) catering to UAE, Bahrain & Qatar territories [December 2012- May 2014].
Worked as a Technical Specialist (Product & Application) at Customer Knowledge Center for Analytical
Sciences (Mumbai Lab), Perkin Elmer India Pvt. Ltd., for Product and Application support catering to the
entire India business region [July 2011- November 2012].
Worked as a Senior Research Executive (after being promoted from Senior Analyst from Quality Control
Department) in the Analytical Development Laboratory at the R&D Centre of Sharon Biomedicine Ltd.,
Taloja (Maharashtra) [April 2009– August 2010].
Worked as a Project Assistant & later as Senior Research Fellow (DST funded) in the
Laboratory for Nanoparticle Engineering
(Department of Chemical Engineering) at the
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore under Prof. S. Venugopal [February 2008 – March 2009].
Projects handled at Emphor FZCO, UAE (Channel Partner for PerkinElmer)
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Worked as a Product Development Manager for Emphor FZCO, Dubai (Channel Partner for PerkinElmer)
for UAE, Qatar and Bahrain territories for Chromatography, Mass Spectrometry & Material
Characterization.
Customer Application Training (Theory, Application & Hands-on) on Chromatography, Mass
Spectrometry, Hyphenation techniques, Spectroscopy for different customers from different segments such
as academia, industries, testing laboratories, government labs etc. across Middle East region.
Product & Application support for Emphor regions (UAE, Bahrain & Qatar) & other Middle East regions for
PerkinElmer - Chromatography, Mass spectrometry and Material Characterization product lines.
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Product, Application & Training Resource person for PerkinElmer DSA-TOF MS in the Middle-East
territories.
Deputy to Demo lab manager for Emphor Science Park management (PerkinElmer Dubai Application Lab).
Conduct Application Training & Product Demos at the Emphor Science Park (Dubai Application Lab) to
customers.
Responsible for revenue generation for Chromatography & Material Characterization verticals for UAE,
Qatar & Bahrain territories.
Pipeline analysis & revenue prediction for both verticals; design & execution of e-marketing campaigns.
Identifying market opportunities, developing business cases and serving as a force multiplier to the sales team.
Publishing Application notes, field reports etc. as per segment requirements.
Also Business leader for development of Park Systems AFM in the Middle East Market. Factory Training and
certification completed at Park Systems in Suwon, South Korea.
Projects handled at PerkinElmer India Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai (India)
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Worked as Technical Specialist – Product & Application (Chromatography) at the Customer Knowledge
Center for Analytical Sciences, Mumbai Lab catering to the entire India business region.
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Application roles included: Application Support & Escalation visits, Customer training & demos,
Analytical Method development (as a pre-sales or post-sales activity), Conduct PerkinElmer’s calendar
training programs for customers & non-customers at Mumbai Lab, creating application and
experimental notes etc.
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Product roles included: Pre-sales product presentations / demos to customer, technical support as a
force multiplier to the Sales/ Service/ after-sales team, In-Charge for product buyback offers for South,
Central & Western India regions, product training to new sales team members, technical help to postsales team etc.
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Certified Trainer / Faculty at PerkinElmer India Talent Academy, Mumbai (India) for the entire
Chromatography product lines (both Product & Application training).
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Trained and certified across all the product lines of PerkinElmer with specialization in Chromatography and
Material Characterization product lines after a rigorous training at PerkinElmer’s India Talent Academy.
Projects handled at R &D Centre, Sharon Biotech Ltd., Taloja(Maharashtra, India)
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Validation of Analytical Methods as per ICH & US FDA guidelines [for DMF (Drug Master File) Filing as per
regulatory requirements].
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Analytical method development of Bulk drugs and their intermediates using GC and HPLC.
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Liaison the Technology transfer team for drug molecule test processes from the R & D centre to the Quality
Control (QC) Lab.
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Drug Impurity profiling of drugs using HPLC and GC.
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OVI (Organic Volatile Impurity) profiling of drugs using Headspace GC.
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Stability study of drugs and intermediates as per ICH Protocol.
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Calibration of Instruments / Equipments & Preparation and approval of SOP’s for GLP.
Projects handled at QC Lab, Sharon Biomedicine Ltd., Taloja(Maharashtra, India)
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Setting up the new QC (Quality Control) lab for our new factory at Taloja as per US-FDA market guidelines
and international guidelines.
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Preparation of SOP’s, GTP (General Test Procedures), Cleaning protocols and protocols for testing raw
materials etc.
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Preparation of protocols & maintenance of Qualification reports (IQ / OQ / PQ) & Calibration data for all
analytical instruments / equipment used in the Quality Control Laboratory.
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Liaison the Technology transfer team for drug molecule test processes (as per US-FDA guidelines) from the
R & D Centre to the Quality Control (QC) Lab.
Projects handled at Indian Institute of Science (I.I.Sc.), Bangalore, India
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Synthesis, Characterization and Architecture of Bimetallic magnetic nanoparticles
(Independent Research project)
In this project, I have synthesized and characterized monodispersed FePt magnetic nanoparticles using
microemulsion route at room temperature and arrays were prepared & transferred by microcontact printing and
characterized using different techniques such as XRD, FE-SEM, DLS and AFM. The stability studies on arrays
were done by plasma treatment using RIE.
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Synthesis, Optimization and Architecture of metallic Nanoparticles. (Collaborative Project)
In this project, I have optimized the solution based synthetic routes for obtaining better monodispersed
nanoparticles. Further, DLS and AFM were used to characterize the nanoparticles.
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Familiar with Nanolithographic techniques such as Photolithography, AFM-based nanolithography and SoftLithographic techniques such as Microcontact printing (μCP)
Hands on experience on Force microscopy, Nanomanipulation (AFM based) and EFM
Have undergone training to operate and analyze work in a Class 10000, Class 1000 & 100 clean air facility.
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Preparation of SOP’s (Standard Operating Procedures) for the Wet Lab, Clean room facility and Central
Instrumentation facility for maintaining GLP (Good Laboratory Practices).
M.Sc.(By Research) projects
“Kinetics of oxidation of some alcohols”
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Preparation of high surface area Nano TiO2 for studying energy efficient oxidation systems and also study
the kinetics of photo-degradation of some industrial waste and its conversion to value added products.
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Doping studies were undertaken for the enhancement of the reaction rates using aliovalent transition metal
ions.
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Photochemical degradation studies were carried out on alcohol, dye and pesticide substrates were using
Nano TiO2 and doped TiO2 & the effect of various parameters such as particle size, dopants on the photocatalytic activity were also studied using HPLC & GC-MS.
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HPLC & GC-MS were employed to study consecutive reaction kinetics of the reaction.
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Chemical characterization of intermediates and final products was carried out using conventional
techniques and GC-MS
Presentations and Publications
Select Presentations
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Invited Talk at Indo-Korean Academic Meet and Instructional Seminar at Central University of Rajasthan, ,
Rajasthan, India [January 8, 2011]
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Presented a poster on “Synthesis of Novel Photoacid generator containing polymer photoresist for Electron
Beam Lithography” at International Conference on Nanoscience & Nanotechnology ICNN-2011 held at
SRTM University, Maharashtra, India [January 2011]
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Presented a paper on “The study of dependence of photocatalytic activity of TiO 2 and doped TiO2 on
different physicochemical parameters using model oxidation and reduction reactions” at the
International Conference on Photoradiation Chemistry (PHOTORADCHEM - 2007) held at
M. G. University, Kottayam, Kerala, India. [February 2007]
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Presented a paper on “Photocatalytic Degradation of Malachite Green Dye Employing Pure and Transition
Metal ions Doped TiO2 and SrTiO3” at the RSC (Royal Society of Chemistry) Symposia (Western India
Section) held at M. S. University, Baroda, Gujarat, India [2006]
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Presented a poster on “Thermal behaviour of Indian Laterite soil from the Western Ghat Region” at the
THERMANS 2006 (National Symposium on Thermal Analysis organized by BRNS (DAE) & Indian
Thermal Analysis Society at the University of Jaipur, Rajasthan, India. [Febuary 6-8 2006]
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Presented a poster on “Kinetics and Mechanism of Oxidation of Furfuryl Alcohol in Acidic Medium” at the
National Symposium on Recent Trends in Heterocyclic Chemistry at Trichy, Tamil Nadu. [September
2004].
Selected Publications
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Synthesis and Characterization of Novel Photoacid Generator Bound Chemically Amplified Resist (CAR)
Containing Epoxy Group for Electron Beam Lithography
Jae Beom Yoo, Hemant S. Mondkar, Min Jeong Kim, Viswaraja Sasikumar, Kyunghwa Sohn and Haiwon
Lee, Polymer, 2014 (Accepted)
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“Thermal behaviour of Indian Laterite soil from the Western Ghat Region”,
Viswaraja Sasikumar, V. Sawant, S. R. Dharwadkar, M. M. Shaikh, Proceedings of the 15th National
Symposium on Thermal Analysis, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, February 6-8, 2006, p. 328.
[Full length peer-reviewed paper]
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Photocatalytic degradation of Ethidium Bromide using nanosize anatase TiO2,
Viswaraja Sasikumar, S. K. Mourya, Y. S. Malghe,
Applied Catalysis B: Environmental (Communicated)
The study of dependence of photocatalytic activity of TiO 2 and doped TiO2 on different physicochemical
parameters using model oxidation and reduction reactions(Manuscript Under Preparation)
Yogesh Satpute, Viswaraja Sasikumar, S.R. Dharwadkar
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Pre-column Chelation with 5Br-8-Hydroxyquinoline for the simultaneous determination of metal ions by
Reversed-phase High Performance Liquid Chromatography,
Saju Shanmughan, Viswaraja Sasikumar, M. M. Shaikh,
Indian Journal of Chemistry (Communicated)
Precolumn chelation with 7-Bromo-8-Quinolinol for simultaneous determination of Arsenic Trioxide and
its impurities by RP-HPLC,
Saju Shanmughan, Viswaraja Sasikumar, M. M. Shaikh,
Acta Pharmaceutica (Communicated)
Instruments Handled
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Chromatography / MS: GC(FID/ECD/TCD/NPD), GC/HS (PerkinElmer, Combipal), GC/HSTrap(PerkinElmer), GC/MS (PerkinElmer & Shimadzu), HPLC (PerkinElmer, Dionex, Agilent, Waters, MerckHitachi), LC-DSA-TOF MS (PerkinElmer), LC-ICPMS (Speciation Studies)
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Thermal Analysis: Differential Scanning Calorimetry (Perkin Elmer & Mettler-Toledo), Differential Thermal
Analyzer (Indigenously made & Mettler-Toledo), Thermogravimetric Analyzer (Perkin Elmer & MT),
Thermodilatometer (Indigeneously made), Simultaneous Thermal Analyser STA (Perkin Elmer), DTA-TG/IR,
TG/MS, TG/GC-MS (Perkin Elmer), DSC-Raman(Perkin Elmer)
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Spectroscopy : UV/Vis, UV-Vis-NIR Spectroscopy (Perkin Elmer & Shimadzu), Fluorescence Spectroscopy
(Perkin Elmer), FT-IR, FT-NIR (Perkin Elmer), Cryo- FTIR (PerkinElmer / Oxford)
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Imaging: Atomic Force Microscopy (Park Systems, Asylum Research, Digital Instruments, NT-MDT),
AFM-Scanning Ion Conductance Microscopy (Park Systems), FE-Scanning Electron Microscopy (Carl Zeiss,
Hitachi), Dynamic Light Scattering (Brookhaven), FT-IR Mircroscopy (PerkinElmer),
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Lithography: Laser Pattern Writer (Heidelberg), E-beam Lithography(Jeol), KrF Lithography
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X-Ray Diffractometer (Philips X’Pert, Hitachi), Stop-Flow Reactor (For Fast reaction kinetics)
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Inorganic: GF-AAS and Flame AAS(Perkin Elmer), ICP-OES, ICP-MS (Perkin Elmer), LC-ICPMS
(Speciation studies)
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Karl Fisher Apparatus, Autotitrators, Stability Chamber (for pharmaceutical studies)
Memberships
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Life Member of ITAS (Indian Thermal Analysis Society) which is affiliated to the International
Confederation for Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry (ICTAC).
Fellow Member, Indian Carbon Society
Life Member, ISMAS (Indian Society for Mass Spectrometry)
Other Skill sets
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 As a part of research activity, I was a part of a collaborative research team under the guidance of
Dr. Dharwadkar and Dr. M. M. Shaikh in the design, fabrication and development of different
thermoanalytical instruments required for my research purpose at the Institute of Science, Mumbai like
Differential Thermal Analyzer (DTA) unit, Thermogravimetric unit (TGA), High Temperature Silicon
Carbide & Kanthal Furnaces (For temperatures upto 1200°C), Controlled Atmosphere Microwave System
(with temperature control), Thermodilatometer (TDA) etc.
Survey of literature, Project preparation, Designing experiments, Reporting, Making Presentations, Writing
Papers, Reviews etc. Ability to convey ideas clearly as well work in a team.
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Preparation of SOP for maintaining Good Laboratory Practices.
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Conversant with US, British, European and Japanese Pharmacopoeia.
Computer Skillsets
Operating Systems & Applications: Windows, Linux Platforms and Well versed in MS-Office Suite; SAP–CRM.
Scientific Softwares : PerkinElmer CambridgeSoft suites, Chem3D Ultra 2008, ACD Chemsketch, ISIS Draw,
Sigmaplot, Origin, Endnote, Sigma Stat, Table Curve 2D and 3D, Rasmol, Pcwin, HyperChem.
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Well versed with computer aided literature search of databases like Scifinder, Beilstein, Scopus, including
patents as well as manual literature search using Chemical Abstracts, Biological Abstracts etc.