Product Development Chemist resume example

• Innovation and Process Improvement

- Optimized chemical pretreatments for biomass that leads to the generation of materials that increase the output of biodiesel by 25%.

- Processed biomaterials towards development of composite materials that are being tested in the production of car bumpers.

• Safety stewardship and Mentorship

- Led the safety efforts in the laboratory, organized process hazard analysis before a new reaction and/or process. Maintained a chemical hygiene plan, wrote SOPs and managed staff training records.

- Trained junior scientists, international fellows and undergraduate students in lab processes and instrumentation.

● Proposed, designed & synthesized nickel-based electrocatalyst that performed hydrogen oxidation at ambient temperature and pressure and at the same time reduced overpotential. This work has potential to use sustainable catalysts in hydrogen fuel cells replacing third row metals.

● Developed a novel transition metal-doped optical materials replacing lanthanide-doped ones.

● Developed sustainable and selective iron catalysts for hydrocarbon oxidation using hydrogen peroxide eliminating non-selectivity of Fenton’s reagent.

● Utilized the iron-based oxidants in the purification of water of persistent pollutants and hardy pathogens.