Apoorva Suresh Bademi *** North Salisbury Street, West Lafayette, IN 47906

adg47z@r.postjobfree.com Cell: 765-***-**** LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/apoorva-bademi/ OBJECTIVE: Currently seeking full-time employment opportunities in Process Development, based on my experience with algal cell culture fermentation, tissue culture, analytical instruments, data analysis and modelling of biosystems. EDUCATION:

Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN Aug 2020

Master of Science in Chemical Engineering GPA: 3.8/4.0 National Institute of Technology Karnataka (NITK), India May 2015 Bachelor of Technology in Chemical Engineering GPA: 7.81/10 (3.2/4.0) PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Bombay, India Junior Research Fellow, Biosystems Engineering Lab Jul 2016 – Jul 2019

• Flux Balance Analysis of proprietary algal cell cultures to study potential biomass producing pathways o Constructed and manually curated the Genomic scale metabolic model using genomic databases o Simulated the network of 800 biochemical reactions on MATLAB o Conducted studies to understand diurnal pattern of growth of cultures o Authored and documented laboratory Standard Operating Protocol for growth experiments and software

• 13C Metabolic Flux Analysis of select microalgal strains o Cultured algal strains in environmental photobioreactors in local summer and winter-like conditions, and harvested at 3 different times of the day to study effect of light and temperature on growth o Analysed fragment data of samples run through LC-MS/MS; identified 13C labelled metabolites o Constructed isotopomer model for central carbon metabolism; simulated model using Isotopic Non-Stationary Compartmental Analysis

o Inferred that higher temperature and light conditions are favourable for algal higher growth rate, and in turn higher potential to produce higher biofuels

Mu Sigma Business Solutions Private Limited, Bangalore, India Trainee Decision Scientist Aug 2015 – Jul 2016

• Contributed to the digital marketing team for a US based e-commerce platform that received up to 9M daily web visits

• Presented business insights to improve digital marketing campaigns to boost customer engagement using database querying and data analysis

SCIENTIFIC PROJECTS:

Takeda Pharmaceuticals and Purdue University May 2020 – Aug 2020 Summer Capstone Project– Clean-in-place (CIP) optimisation through digital modelling

• Independently built a digital twin for an existing CIP system for the pharmaceutical company, to capture existing piping, capacities, characteristics and specifications based on Piping & Instrumentation Diagrams (P&IDs)

• Recommended usage of certain detergents, and lowering temperature of cleaning medium leading to improvement in process performance and energy efficiency based on the simulation, while maintaining quality standards Department of Chemical Engineering, NITK, India

Kinetics of L-asparaginase Aug 2014 – Apr 2015

• Designed experiments for purification of L-Asparaginase enzyme from endophytic fungi, using ammonium sulphate precipitation, dialysis, and column chromatography

• Conducted enzyme assays to study its kinetics to conclude that the enzyme follows Michaelis-Menten kinetics Department of Chemical Engineering, NITK, India

Optimizing purification of Sardine oil to extract Omega-3 fatty acids Dec 2013

• Optimized different techniques like water and acid degumming on crude sardine oil; conducted solvent extraction with different organic acids, and determined purity using photo-spectrometer Central Plantation Crop Research Institute, India

Summer trainee Jun 2013

• Received hands-on training on media preparation, sterilization, tissue culture, and molecular biology techniques such as PCR, SDS PAGE, DNA extraction, and bioinformatics techniques SKILLS:

• Laboratory: Molecular biology techniques, DNA extraction, characterisation with SDS PAGE, Chromatography, sterilization, tissue culture, spectroscopy (fluorescence, UV-Vis), Bioassay development, LC-MS/MS fragment data analysis, metabolite identification, Bioinformatics

• Programming: C, C++, Python, MySQL, R, MATLAB

LEADERSHIP POSITIONS AND INVOLVEMENT:

Wesley Foundation at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana Sep 2019 – Present

• Volunteer on the steering committee for the Global Connections ministry to lead outreach to international students

• Plan the logistics for events that seeks to achieve cross-cultural dialogue on important societal and global issues Professional Graduate Student Organisation, Chemical Engineering, Purdue University Sep 2019 – Aug 2020

• Treasurer – Drafted the budget for various events to be carried out and maintained financial records for PGSO Artists’ Forum, NITK, India Sep 2011 - May 2015

Joint Convenor - Managed weekly 90-member meetings, organised campus-wide events including workshops and design competitions, managed resources annual cultural and technical fests Convenor - Annual art exhibition at NITK in collaboration with close to 100 artists from in and around campus

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