Anand Mohan Verma

Assistant Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering
Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad, Prayagraj, India-211004
E-mail: amverma[at]mnnit[dot]ac[dot]in
Telephone: +91-7663 070 315(O)

Other Academic Achievements

Conferences Attended for Presenting Paper:

17) Anand M. Verma, NAMMA Psi-K workshop, JNCASR and IISc Bengaluru, July 2023, India. (Attendee)

16) Anand M. Verma, IISc Chemical Engineering Symposium (ICES) and Alumni Meet, IISc Bengaluru, June 2023, India. (Attendee)

15) Anand M. Verma and Ananth Govind Rajan, “First-principles investigations on thermocatalytic CO2 reduction to various C1-based products”, ChemE 75 Symposium, IISc Bengaluru, December 2022, India. (Talk)

14) Anand M. Verma, Shell AI Conference, September 2022, Hotel Taj Bangalore, India. (Attendee)

13) Anand M. Verma and Ananth Govind Rajan, “Using Density Functional Theory and Machine Learning to predict Catalysts for Thermochemical CO2 Conversion to 1-Butanol”, Young Researchers’ Symposium 2022, IISc Bengaluru, April 2022, India. (Poster)

12) Anand M. Verma, APS Satellite Meeting, March 2022, International Center for Theoretical Sciences, Bengaluru, India. (Attendee)

11) Anand M. Verma, Nanoscience Days, October 2020, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. (Attendee)

10) Anand M. Verma, “First-Principles Study on Water Dissociation Reaction over Zirconia-Supported Pt and Rh Interfacial Sites”, Computational Chemistry Days, August 2019, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland. (Talk)

9) Anand M. Verma, “Interfacial Water Dissociation over Globally Optimized ZrO2 Supported Rh and Pt Clusters: A DFT Perspective”, Nanoscience Days, October 2019, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. (Poster)

8) Anand M. Verma and Nanda Kishore, “Kinetics of Decomposition Reactions of Acetic Acid using DFT Approach”, The Open Journal of Chemical Engineering (Invited Contribution), 12, 14-23, 2018.

7) Anand M. Verma, Kushagra Agrawal, and Nanda Kishore, “Gas Phase Kinetic Investigations of Decomposition of Salicylaldehyde over Pd(111) Catalyst Surface”, REFLUX, March 2018, IIT Guwahati, India. (Secured 1st position). (Talk)

6) Kushagra Agrawal, Anand M. Verma, and Nanda Kishore, “Elucidating the Production of Vanillin from Ferulic Acid using DFT”, Research Conclave, March 2018, IIT Guwahati, India. (Talk)

5) Anand M. Verma and Nanda Kishore, “DFT Study on Hydrogenation Reaction of Acetaldehyde to Ethanol in Gas and Water Phase”, ICRTET, January 2016, India. (Talk)

4) Anand M. Verma and Nanda Kishore, “DFT Study on Hydrogenation Reaction of Acetaldehyde to Ethanol in Gas and Water Phase”, International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology (Invited Contribution), 5, 53-57, 2016.

3) Anand M. Verma and Nanda Kishore, “DFT Study on Hydrogenation Reaction of 1-hydroxypropan-2-one”, 30th Indian Engineers Congress, 21st Century Engineering: Make in India Pathway, December 2015, India. (Talk)

2) Anand M. Verma and Nanda Kishore, “Theoretical comparison of DFT functional for the decomposition reaction of acetic acid”, SCHEMCON, Sep 2015, Pune, India. (Talk)

1) Anand M. Verma and Nanda Kishore, “DFT Study on Kinetics of Decomposition Reaction of trans-Methyl Nitrite”, CHEMCON, December 2015, India. (Talk)

Award and Honors:

6) CV Raman Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru (India) under the supervision of Prof. Ananth Govind Rajan (Jan 2023)

5) Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Jyväskylä (Finland) under the supervision of Prof. Karoliina Honkala (Apr 2019 – Dec 2020)

4) Visiting Research Fellowship at the University of South Carolina (USA) under the supervision of Prof. Andreas Heyden (Jan 2018 – Jun 2018)

3) Travel Grant by the Ghent University, Belgium (2018)

2) Secured 1st position in Paper Presentation event of REFLUX-2018 for “Gas Phase Kinetic Investigations of Decomposition of Salicylaldehyde over Pd(111) Catalyst Surface” (2018)

1) Scored All India 46th rank in SET examination (2010)

Other Significant Achievements:

4) Anand M. Verma, “Practical Machine Learning: GPU Edition!”, CSC Finland, October 2020, Finland.

3) Anand M. Verma, “Workshop on Theory, Applications, and Tools for Multiscale Kinetic Modeling”, Laboratory of Catalysis and Catalytic Processes, July 2020, Italy.

2) Anand M. Verma, “Spring School on Computational Chemistry 2020”, CSC Finland, January 2020, Finland.

1) Anand M. Verma, “A Workshop on Gaussian 09 Software Package”, Pune 2014, India.