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Siddarth Krishna

Siddarth Krishna

Duane H. and Dorothy M. Bluemke Assistant Professor

Siddarth H. Krishna joined the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering in January 2022. Siddarth obtained his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from UC-Berkeley (2010-2014), where he performed undergraduate research in aldol condensation catalysis for renewable fuels applications in the laboratory of Alexis T. Bell. He then obtained his PhD in Chemical Engineering from UW-Madison (2014-2019) as an NSF Graduate Research Fellow, working with James A. Dumesic and George W. Huber on the conversion mechanisms of biomass-derived intermediates to renewable chemicals over metal and acid catalysts. Most recently, he was a Henson Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Purdue University (2019-2021), where he performed research in the laboratory of Rajamani Gounder on understanding active site requirements for automotive nitric oxide pollution abatement over metal-exchanged zeolites.

His research group at UW-Madison combines atomically precise catalyst synthesis and characterization tools with detailed kinetic and mechanistic studies of complex reaction networks, to address urgent sustainability challenges such as eliminating harmful emissions and producing fuels and chemicals from renewable feedstocks.

Department

Chemical & Biological Engineering

Contact

Engineering Hall
1415 Engineering Dr
Madison, WI

  • PhD 2019, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison
  • BS 2014, Univ. of California-Berkeley

  • heterogeneous catalysis
  • kinetics and mechanisms
  • microporous materials
  • operando spectroscopy
  • sustainable fuels and chemicals
  • renewable energy storage
  • environmental pollution abatement

  • 2022 College of Engineering, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, Duane H. and Dorothy M. Bluemke Assistant Professorship
  • 2022 American Chemical Society, ACS Petroleum Research Fund Doctoral New Investigator Award
  • 2021 Purdue College of Engineering , Purdue College of Engineering Outstanding Postdoc Award
  • 2020 International Congress on Catalysis Travel Award
  • 2020 Reaction Chemistry & Engineering, Outstanding Reviewer
  • 2019 Purdue University, Henson Postdoctoral Fellowship
  • 2015 National Science Foundation, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
  • 2014 Phi Beta Kappa Honors Society, Phi Beta Kappa Honors Society

  • Brungardt, E. A., Sunkireddy, V., Perez-Aguilar, J. E., & Krishna, S. (2025). Elucidating redox pathways for N2O selective catalytic reduction with NO and NH3 over Fe-chabazite zeolites. Applied Catalysis B: Environment and Energy, 362, 124708.
  • Krishna, S., & Olarte, M. (2024). Catalyst Design, Synthesis, and Characterization VI: Environments Around Active Sites. In 2024 AIChE Annual Meeting.
  • Ansay, G., Edgar, M. D., Ahsan, S., & Krishna, S. (2024). Controlling Selectivity in Reactions for Sustainable Hydrogen Storage in Liquid Carriers. In 2024 AIChE Annual Meeting.
  • Sonawat, D., Granowski, P., DuBridge, T. T., & Krishna, S. (2024). Effects of Pd Site Structure on Heterogeneous Wacker Oxidation of Olefins over PdCu-Zeolite Catalysts. In 2024 AIChE Annual Meeting.
  • Brungardt, E., Sunkireddy, V., & Krishna, S. (2024). Intrinsic kinetics of disparate redox pathways for N 2 O selective catalytic reduction by NO and NH 3 over Fe-zeolites. In 2024 AIChE Annual Meeting.
  • Goswami, A., Krishna, S., Gounder, R., & Schneider, W. F. (2024). Kinetic Monte Carlo Analysis Reveals Non-mean-field Active Site Dynamics in Cu--Zeolite-Catalyzed NO x Reduction. ACS catalysis, 14, 8376--8388.
  • Wrasman, C. J., Bell, A. T., Chandler, B. D., Harris, J. W., Kwon, S., Ball, M. R., Krishna, S., Khatib, S. J., Bollini, P., Rom'an-Leshkov, Yuriy,, & others, (2024). Recommendations for improving rigor and reproducibility in site specific characterization. Journal of Catalysis, 433, 115451.
  • Ahsan, S., Edgar, M. D., & Krishna, S. (2024). Understanding Stereochemistry in Biomass Conversion Reactions over Heterogeneous Catalysts. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, 12(5), 1797--1808.
  • Krishna, S., Brungardt, L., & Sunkireddy, V. (2023). Elucidating Redox Pathways for Nitrous Oxide Emissions Control over Metal-Zeolite Catalysts. In 2023 AIChE Annual Meeting.
  • Krishna, S., & Sasmaz, E. (2023). Environmental and Automotive Catalysis I: Emerging Catalytic Technologies. In 2023 AIChE Annual Meeting.

  • CBE 599 - Special Problems (Spring 2025)
  • CBE 890 - Pre-Dissertator's Research (Spring 2025)
  • CBE 990 - Thesis-Research (Spring 2025)
  • CBE 430 - Chemical Kinetics and Reactor Design (Fall 2024)
  • CBE 599 - Special Problems (Fall 2024)
  • CBE 890 - Pre-Dissertator's Research (Fall 2024)
  • CBE 990 - Thesis-Research (Fall 2024)
  • CBE 890 - Pre-Dissertator's Research (Summer 2024)
  • CBE 990 - Thesis-Research (Summer 2024)
  • CBE 535 - Heterogeneous Catalysis: Principles and Applications (Spring 2024)
  • CBE 599 - Special Problems (Spring 2024)
  • CBE 890 - Pre-Dissertator's Research (Spring 2024)
  • CBE 990 - Thesis-Research (Spring 2024)
  • CBE 430 - Chemical Kinetics and Reactor Design (Fall 2023)
  • CBE 599 - Special Problems (Fall 2023)
  • CBE 890 - Pre-Dissertator's Research (Fall 2023)
  • CBE 890 - Pre-Dissertator's Research (Summer 2023)