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DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY
INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS
DR. RAJESH KUMAR PARSAPUR
Assistant Professor
Address: Room 210, National Centre for Catalysis Research, Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai – 600036, India
Education
Biography
Dr. Rajesh Kumar Parsapur is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras). He earned his Ph.D. from IIT Madras, where his research focused on design and development of heterogeneous catalysts. He then joined King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia, as a Postdoctoral Fellow, working on the design of advanced porous catalysts for refinery-based applications. From January 2023 to July 2026, he served as a Research Scientist at KAUST, contributing to the development and scale-up of catalytic technologies from laboratory to pilot scale. In July 2026, he joined the faculty at IIT Madras, where his research focuses on heterogeneous catalysis, catalyst design, and energy-related applications.
Research Interests
Honors and Recognitions
Representative Publications
- Parsapur, R. K*., Melinte. G., Saih. Y., Abou-Hamad, E., Samaras, V., Hodgkins, R., Koseoglu, O. R., Aljishi, M. F., Bendjeriou-Sedjerari, A., Lai, Z., Rueping, M., and K.-W., Huang “Partially Ordered Mesoporous Zeolite Beta Frameworks as Naphtha- Selective Catalysts in Vacuum Gas Oil Hydrocracking”, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2025, 147, 41109−41121
- Parsapur, R. K*., Hengne, A. M., Melinte. G., Koseoglu, O., Hodgkins, R., Bendjeriou-Sedjerari, A., Lai, Z., and K.-W., Huang “Post-Synthetic Ensembling Design of Hierarchically Ordered FAU-type Zeolite Frameworks for Vacuum Gas Oil Hydrocracking”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2024, 63, e202314217.
- Parsapur R. K., Hodgkins, R., Koseoglu, O., Bendjeriou-Sedjerari, A., and Huang, K.-W., “Hierarchically Ordered Crystalline Microporous Materials with Long-Range Mesoporous Order Having Cubic Symmetry”, US patent granted, 2024, US12152204B2.
- Parsapur, R. K., Chatterjee, S., Huang, K.-W., “The Insignificant Role of Dry Reforming of Methane in CO 2 Emission Relief”, ACS Energy Lett., 2020, 5, 2881.
- Parsapur, R. K., and Selvam, P., “Rational design, synthesis and catalytic properties of high-quality low-silica hierarchical zeolites with FAU and LTA topologies”, Scientific Reports, 2016, 8, 16291.
- Mohamed, H. O., Parsapur, R. K., Hita, I., Cerrillo, J. L., Ramírez, A., Huang, K.-W., Gascon, J., Castaño, P.,” Stable and reusable hierarchical ZSM-5 zeolite with superior performance for olefin oligomerization when partially coked”, Appl. Catal. B., 2022, 316, 121582.
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