Dr. Anirudh Sharma

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR (GRADE II)

anirudh.sharma@jiit.ac.in

BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Anirudh Sharma has been working at Department of Biotechnology, JIIT since July 2023. Before joining JIIT, Dr. Anirudh Sharma worked as Assistant Professor at University Institute of Biotechnology, Chandigarh University, Mohali, Punjab from January 2019 to June 2023. He completed his PhD from Department of Biotechnology, Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology in 2018. During his PhD he qualified CSIR-SRF in 2014 and availed CSIR fellowship. He has done his Master’s degree in Biotechnology from Choudhary Charan Singh University, Meerut in 2010.

In past, Dr. Anirudh Sharma had worked as Junior research fellow in DAE-BRNS sponsored project. During this project, He worked at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Mumbai at periodic intervals as part of the assignments under the sponsored project. He has been worked as project fellow at INMAS-DRDO from July 2010 to July 2011. His core area of research to develop a process for biofuels production from waste feedstocks through biocatalysis.

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS

The research is focused toward the generation of biofuels from industrial wastes.He use acid oil as feedstock for the generation of biodiesel and renewable diesel through whole-cell catalysis. The use of acid oil is an alternative, cost-effective and high-quality feedstock as it can significantly reduce the economic implication involved in biodiesel production. On the other hand; The importance of this research is to identify the potential use of whole-cell biomass suspension as biocatalyst that effectively enhance the rate of reaction and contributes another important share in reducing the cost associated with the production of biodiesel and useful for commercial applications.

PUBLICATIONS

Anirudh Sharma, Jose Savio Melo, R. Prakash, N. Tejo Prakash. Biomass suspension catalyzed generation of various alkyl esters from acid oil and virgin oil. Biocatalysis & Biotransformation. 42 (2024) 34-40. (IF- 1.8)
Anand Singh, Janmay Jai Sharma, Billeswar Mohanta, Ankur Sood, Sung Soo Han, Anirudh Sharma. Synthetic and biopolymers-based hydrogels: A focused review. Journal of Biomaterials Science: Polymer Edition. (2023) (IF-3.6) (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09205063.2023.2278814).
Santosh Kumar Rath, Gurpinder Kaur, Anirudh Sharma, Anmol Singh, Ranjana Prakash, Sudip Mandal, N. Tejo Prakash. Whole cell lipase catalytic synthesis of short-chain fragrance esters using Aspergillus flavus. Letters in Drug Design & Discovery. (2023) (IF-1.0) (DOI: 10.2174/1570180820666230222145117).
Anirudh Sharma, Jose Savio Melo, R. Prakash, N. Tejo Prakash. Lab-scale production of biodiesel from soybean acid oil using immobilized whole cells as catalyst. Biocatalysis & Biotransformation. 39 (2021) 443-454. (IF-1.8)
Anirudh Sharma, Jose Savio Melo, N. Tejo Prakash, R. Prakash. Effect of feedstocks and chain length of alcohols on whole-cell catalyzed generation of alkyl esters. Energy Sources, Part A: Recovery, Utilization, and Environmental Effects.40 (2018) 2612-2619. (IF-2.9)
Anirudh Sharma, Jose Savio Melo, N. Tejo Prakash, R. Prakash. Fuel properties of blend and biodiesel generated from acid oil using whole cell biocatalyst. Energy Sources, Part A: Recovery, Utilization, and Environmental Effects.40 (2018) 148-154. (IF-2.9)
Anirudh Sharma, N.Tejo Prakash, Ranjana Prakash. Fungus-mediated generation of ethyl ester using acid oil as substrate. Environmental Progress & Sustainable Energy. 36 (2017) 1840-1846. (IF-2.8)
Satnam Singh Aulakh, Anirudh Sharma, N. Tejo Prakash, Ranjana Prakash. Biocatalyzed esterification of oleic acid using cell suspension and dried biomass of Aspergillus sp. (RBD01). Biocatalysis & Biotransformation. 35 (2017) 127-130. (IF- 1.8)
Anirudh Sharma, Atish Verma, Vijay Luxami, Jose Savio Melo, Stanislaus Francis D'Souza, N.Tejo Prakash, Ranjana Prakash. New proton nuclear magnetic resonance- based derivation for quantification of alkyl esters generated using biocatalysis. Energy & Fuels. 27 (2013) 2660-2664. (IF-5.3)

BOOK CHAPTERS

Anirudh Sharma, Kartar Chand, Gajendra B. Singh, and Gaurav Mudgal. Toxicity with Waste-Generated Ionizing Radiations: Blunders Behind the Scenes. Springer Nature. Pp-305-325. (https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83446-3_15.)
Ayush Jha, Saipriya Dhawan, Anirudh Sharma. Microbial Metabolite-Based Product for Plant Growth Promotion. Springer Nature. Pp-157-172. (https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-3561-1.)
Nidhi Chhikara, Jasdeep Singh, Anirudh Sharma, Ankur Sood, Anuj Kumar. Functionalized lipoplexes and polyplexes for cancer therapy. Elsevier. (In Press).

Conferences /Workshops attended

National conference on innovative molecules for sustainable future at Thapar University, Patiala, October 24-26, 2013.
National workshop on molecular techniques: Cell to DNA (MTCD- 2014) at BITS- Pilani, April 10-12, 2014.
National science day celebration organized by Society of chemists for the promotion of research and education (SCORE) at Thapar University, Patiala, 28 February 2015.
First international conference on recent advances in bio-energy research at SSSINRE, Kapurthala, Punjab, March 14-17, 2015.
Indo-UK workshop on Sustainable polymer applications (IUWSPA 2015) at Thapar University, Patiala, December 8-9, 2015.
National science day celebration organized by chemists association for research and education (CARE) at Thapar University, Patiala, 20 February 2016.
Indo-US workshop on cell factories at IIT-Bombay, Mumbai, March 18-20, 2016.
17th National workshop on challenges in catalysis science & technology at CSIR-IICT, Hyderabad, June 23-25, 2016.
National science day celebration organized by chemists association for research and education (CARE) at Thapar University, Patiala, 18 February 2017.

MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL BODIES/ NATIONAL/ INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEES

Review Editor: Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology
Peer reviewer: Biofuels (Taylor & Francis)

AWARDS/FELLOWSHIPS

Best Researcher Award by International Young Scientist Award organized by ScienceFather, in Feb 2022.
International Travel Grant by Science & Engineering Research Board (SERB), Govt. of India. Aug. 2018. (ITS/2018/004036).
Best Poster Presentation award: 17th National workshop on challenges in catalysis science & technology at CSIR-IICT, Hyderabad, 23-25 June 2016.
Senior Research Fellowship awarded by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Govt. of India, in Oct 2014.

Research guidance

Master’s Thesis: 20

Graduate Thesis: 04