CV 1/20/2009

Piyush Shukla, Ph.D.

** ********** *** · GREER, SOUTH CAROLINA · 29650

PHONE 509-***-**** · E-MAIL **********@*******.***

U.S. Citizen; inactive security clearance level Q (2003)

WORK EXPERIENCE

Milliken & Company Spartanburg, SC

Senior Development Chemist April 2008 to January 2009

Advanced Development Chemist January 2006 to April 2008

• Developed anti-microbial and non-microbial odor control technologies for textile substrates for a $20-$50 million market in both the United States and abroad

• Developed a rechargeable anti-microbial finishing technology to reduce cross-contamination in food processing and hospital settings; conducted field trials in both environments to evaluate Milliken & Company technology as well as competing technologies and analyzed data for statistical relevance

• Developed research from initial concept through full-scale manufacturing production

• Experience with OSHA, ES&H, and other governmental regulatory agencies

• Interacted with a diverse customer base to establish market needs

• Developed intellectual property to secure goals of Milliken businesses and external customers

• Divisional lab manager

Los Alamos National Laboratory Los Alamos, NM

Seaborg Post-Doctoral Fellow July 2004 to January 2006

• Preparation of thin metal films of oxides, nitrides and carbides using a new polymer based deposition technique; collaboration with the Nuclear Materials Technology and Materials, Science and Technology Groups

• Developed a method to lattice engineer the crystalline form, to control stoichiometry and to conformally coat porous substrates

• Addressed some of the disadvantages prevalent in established deposition techniques such as CVD, PVD and sol-gel

Post-Doctoral Fellow July 2003 to July 2004

• Conducted research on the synthesis of oligothiophene and poly(phenylenevinylene) based linker molecules with terminal phosphonic acids to bind to quantum dots to prepare 2D- and 3D arrays; collaboration with the Physical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy group

University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX

Post-Doctoral Fellow, Alan H. Cowley Lab May 2003 to August 2003

• Conducted independent research on the synthesis of novel organometallic and inorganic compounds

• Trained and mentored graduated students

• Maintained laboratory equipment and facilities

W.L. Gore & Associates Elkton, MD

Intern Summer 1997

• Characterized raw fabric using a variety of analytical techniques to determine methods to improve their wicking ability

• Designed and set up protocol for a fabric tester

Montell Polyolefins Elkton, MD

Intern Summer 1996

• Developed synthetic pathways to N-heterocyclic compounds with terminal long chain alkenes to be used as ligands on catalysts for the production of polyolefins

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Los Alamos National Laboratory Los Alamos, NM

Seaborg Institute Fellow Summer 2001 and Summer 2002

• Conducted independent research on the synthesis of novel organic ligands for use in the development of new polymerization catalysts

• Prepared organometallic transfer reagents for use in organic synthesis

University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX

Graduate Research Assistant August 1998 to May 2003

• Synthesis of novel organometallic and inorganic compounds

• Maintenance of equipment and facilities

• Trained and mentored graduate and undergraduate students

University of Delaware Newark, DE

Laboratory Assistant January 1996 to May 1998

• Worked on synthesis, crystallization and structure determination of Group 14-15 heterocycles

• Synthesized and characterized organic starting materials using Diels-Alder chemistry for the total synthesis of complex, stereoselective, physiologically active, natural products

EDUCATION

Doctor of Philosophy, Chemistry May 2003

University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX

Alan H. Cowley, advisor

Thesis title: “New approaches to nitrogen ligands bearing electron withdrawing groups and their role in coordination chemistry.”

Synopsis: Aluminum-nitrogen dimers were prepared that were subsequently used to transform ketones into imines, in most cases in better yields than already established condensation chemistry. This new method also allowed for the preparation of imines and aminoenones bearing highly electron-withdrawing groups. These ligands were used to make a variety of main group metal complexes and transition metal complexes that possed interesting magnetic and ESR properties. Worked in collaboration with the Science and Technology Center at the University of Texas at Austin to synthesize tantalum carbide precursors for use in chemical vapor deposition.

Bachelor of Science, Chemistry, Honors Program May 1998

University of Delaware Newark, DE

Minor: Biology

SKILLS

• Extensive experience in the handling, manipulation, and purification of hazardous, air- and moisture-sensitive and pyrophoric materials, specializing in inert-atmosphere Schlenk, vacuum and glove box techniques

• Experience in handling, controlling and disposing of radioactive materials

• Experience in synthetic organic techniques

• Proficient in 1H and 13C and DEPT and other multinuclear (Al, B, Sn, Ga, F and P) NMR experiments

• Proficient in the operations of MS, EA, GC, IR, UV-Vis and ICP-AES instruments as well as analysis of spectral data

• Adept in the purification and drying of solvents and reagent purification

• Experience in use of XRD

• Experience in glove box maintenance

• Experience in aspects of single crystal X-ray structure determination

• Knowledge of Gaussian

• Highly competent in technical writing (publications in peer-reviewed journals) and teaching (undergraduate and graduate level courses)

• Familiar with PC, Mac and Linux operating systems and web page design (HTML programming)

• Experience in process and product development

• Adept at working independently or in multi-disciplinary teams

• Project and people management experience

• Conversational Spanish and Hindi

HONORS, AWARDS AND AFFILIATIONS

• Milliken and Company Innovator Hall of Fame 2008 (BioSmart™)

• Milliken and Company All-Star 2007

• Led development team for the products that won the “Innovator of the Year, 2006” award from Realtree at the 2007 SHOT Show, Orlando, FL (January 2007)

• “Fluoroaryl-substituted aminoalane dimers: syntheses and structures” featured on the cover of Dalton Transactions (March 2005)

• Member of the Materials Research Society (2005 – present)

• Seaborg Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (summer 2004 – 2006)

• Seminar session chair, “Modern Aspects of Main Group Chemistry,” National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Anaheim, CA (2004)

• Los Alamos National Laboratory Post-Doctoral Fellowship (summer 2003 – 2006)

• Dorothy A. Banks Fellowship (2002 – 2003)

• Seaborg Institute Research Fellow at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (2001 – 2002)

• Member of the American Chemical Society (2000 – present)

• Phi Sigma Pi National Honor Fraternity (1996 – 1998)

• Golden Key Honor Society (1996 – 1998)

• First Year Honors Certificate (1995)

• Recipient of Delaware’s Scholar Award (1994 – 1998)

• Dean’s List (1994 – 1995, 1998)

PUBLICATIONS

1. Shukla, Piyush; Collis, Gavin E.; Burrell, Anthony K. “Designing and tuning phosphonic acid based aryl oligomers for quantum dot applications.” To be submitted to Synthesis.

2. Shukla, Piyush; Gordon, John C.; Cowley, Alan H.; Scott, Brian L. “Early transition metal complexes of fluoraryl-substituted alpha-diimines and beta-aminoenones.” To be submitted to Inorg. Chem.

3. Shukla, Piyush; Gordon John C.; Cowley, Alan H.; Jones, Jamie, N. “A Platinum complex supported by a para-fluorinated alpha-diimine.” To be submitted to Chem. Commun.

4. Burrell, A. K.; McCleskey, T. M.; Shukla, Piyush; Wang, H.; Durakiewicz, T.; Moore, D. P.; Olson, C. G.; Joyce, J. J.; Jia, Qunaxi X. “Controlling oxidation states in uranium oxides through epitaxial stabilization.” Adv. Mater. 2007, 19, 3559-3563.

5. Jain, Menka; Lin, Yuan; Shukla, Piyush, Li, Y.; Wang, H.; Hundley, M. F.; Burrell, A. K.; McCleskey, T. M.; Foltyn, S. F.; Jia, Quanxi, “Ferroic metal-oxide films grown by polymer assisted deposition.” Thin Solid Films, 2007, 16, 6411-6415.

6. Jain, M.; Shukla, P.; Li, Y.; Hundley, M. F.; Wang, H.; Foltyn S. R.; Burrell, A. K.; McCleskey, T. M.; Jia, Q. X. “Manipulating magnetoresistance near room temperature in La0.67Sr0.33MnO3/La0.67Ca0.33MnO3 films prepared by polymer assisted deposition.” Adv. Mater. 2006, 18, 2695-2698.

7. Jain, M.; Li, Y.; Hundley, M. F.; Hawley, M.; Maiorov, B.; Campbell, I. H.; Civale, L.; Jia, Q. X.; Shukla, P.; Burrell, A. K.; McCleskey, T. M. “Magnetoresistance in polymer assisted deposited Sr- and Ca- doped lanthanum manganite films.” App. Phys. Lett. 2006, 88, 232510.

8. Shukla, Piyush; Lin, Yuan, Minogue, Edel M.; Burrell, Anthony K.; McCleskey, T. Mark; Jia, Quanxi; Lu, Ping, “Polymer assisted deposition (PAD) of thin metal films: A new technique to the preparation of metal oxides and reduced metal films.” Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings, 2006, 893, 183-188.

9. Shukla, Piyush; Minogue, Edel M.; McCleskey, T. Mark; Jia, Quanxi; Lin, Yuan; Lu, Ping; Burrell, Anthony K. “Conformal coating of nano-scale features of microporous Anapore® membranes with zirconium and titanium oxide.” Chem. Commun. 2006, 847-849.

10. Shukla, Piyush; Gordon, John C.; Cowley, Alan H.; Jones, Jamie, N. “An unusual bowl-shaped aluminum-nitrogen cage compound.” Inorg. Chim. Acta., 2005, 358, 4407-4411, invited for “Protagonists in chemistry – Hubert Schmidbaur,” special issue.

11. Shukla, Piyush; Gordon, John C.; Cowley, Alan H.; Jones, Jamie N. “Fluoroaryl-substituted ketiminate complexes of aluminum.” J. Organomet. Chem., 2005, 690, 1366-1371.

12. Shukla, Piyush; Gordon, John C.; Cowley, Alan H.; Scott, Brian L.; Jones, Jamie, N. “Fluoroaryl-substituted aminoalane dimers: syntheses and structures.” J. Chem. Soc., Dalton Trans., 2005, 1019-1023.

13. Shukla, Piyush; Johnson, Jennifer A.; Vidovic, Dragoslav; Cowley, Alan H.; Abernethy, Colin D. “Amine elimination synthesis of a titanium(IV) N-heterocyclic carbene complex with short intramolecular Cl…Ccarbene contacts.” Chem. Commun. 2004, 360-361.

14. Gordon, John C.; Shukla, Piyush; Cowley, Alan H.; Jones, Jamie N.; Keogh, D. Webster; Scott, Brian L. “Dialkyl aluminum amides: New reagents for the conversion of C=O into C=NR functionalities.” Chem. Commun. 2002, 2710-2711.

15. Abernethy, Colin D.; Cowley, Alan H.; Jones, Richard A.; Macdonald, Charles L. B.; Shukla, Piyush; Thompson, Laurence K. “Nucleophilic carbene complexes of manganocene.” Organometallics, 2001, 20, 3629-3631.

PRESENTATIONS

Refereed Seminar Presentations

1. Shukla, Piyush; Greer, J. Travis, “BioSmart™ fabric by Milliken & Company.” Medical Materials and Technology, Greenville, SC, March 26-27, 2008.

2. Shukla, Piyush; Gordon, John C.; Cowley, Alan H.; Jones, Jamie N. “Coordination chemistry of alpha-diimines and beta-aminoenones bearing electron withdrawing groups.” Abstracts of Papers, 227th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Anaheim, CA, March 28-April 1, 2004.

3. Gordon, John C.; Shukla, Piyush; Cowley, Alan H.; Jones, Jamie N.; Keogh, D. Webster; Scott, Brian L. “Dialkyl aluminum amides: New reagents for the conversion of C=O into C=NR functionalities.” Abstracts of Papers, 225th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, New Orleans, LA, March 23-27 2003.

4. Abernethy, Colin D.; Cowley, Alan H.; Jones, Richard A.; Macdonald, Charles L. B.; Shukla, Piyush; Thompson, Laurence K. “Nucleophilic carbene adducts of transition metals.” Abstracts of Papers, 221st National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, San Diego, CA, April 1-5, 2001.

Poster Presentations

1. Shukla, Piyush; Lin, Yuan, Minogue, Edel M.; Burrell, Anthony K.; McCleskey, T. Mark; Jia, Quanxi; Lu, Ping, “Polymer assisted deposition (PAD) of thin metal films: A new technique to the preparation of metal oxides and reduced metal films.” Materials Research Symposium, Boston, MA, November 27-December 1, 2005.

2. Shukla, Piyush; Minogue, Edel M.; McCleskey, T. Mark; Jia, Quanxi; Lin, Yuan; Lu, Ping; Burrell, Anthony K. “Polymer assisted deposition of thin metal films: A new technique to the preparation of metal oxides and reduced metal films.” Inorganic Gordon Research Conference, Newport, RI, July 17-22, 2005.

Seminar Session Chairs

1. Shukla, Piyush “Modern Aspects of Main Group Chemistry.” National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Anaheim, CA, March 28-April 1, 2004. Organizers: Lattman, M.; Kemp, R. A.

PATENTS

1. Patent Application, “Textiles treated with hyperbranched polyethyleneimine derivatives for odor control properties,” Xinggao Fang, Michael Hong, Piyush Shukla, Brett Meredith.

2. Patent Application, “Antimicrobial and odor-adsorbing textile,” Piyush Shukla, Michael Anderson.

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