Professional Experience
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biotechnology, National Institute of Technology Andhra Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh (Since Aug 2018)
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biotechnology, National Institute of Technology Raipur, Chhattisgarh (June 2015 - Aug 2018)
Associate Professor, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, SSN College of Engineering, Chennai (Shiv Nadar Institutions; NIRF Rank - 48, 2022) (Nov 2013 - June 2015)
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, SSN College of Engineering, Chennai (Shiv Nadar Institutions; NIRF Rank - 48, 2022) (July 2012 - Oct 2013)
Research Interest
Biological Reaction Engineering, Metabolic Pathway Analysis and Modeling, Biochemical Engineering, and Bioprospecting of Shellfishery Wastes
Book Chapters
Nithya M, Seenivasan A*, Design and Kinetics of Homogenous Biochemical Reactors, In Bioprocess Engineering and Technology: Upstream Process, CRC Press, 2023 (In press).
Nur Izyan Wan Azelee, Aishah Rosli, Seenivasan Ayothiraman, Shilpa Mishra, Baranidharan S, Rangabhashiyam Selvasembian, "Nanoparticles for the adsorptive removal of heavy metals from wastewater" In: Adsorption through Advanced Nanoscale Materials: Applications in Environmental Remediation, 2023, 409-428, Elsevier. ISBN: 9780443184567. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-443-18456-7.00018-3
Digvijay D, Seenivasan A*, Chitinases: structure, function, and valorization of marine shell waste (Ch: 7), In Enzymes in Valorization of Waste (Vol 1): Enzymatic Pre-treatment of Waste for Development of Enzyme based Biorefinery, CRC Press, 2022. eBook ISBN9781003187714.
Nitish Venkateswarlu Mogili, Nithya Murugesan, Seenivasan Ayothiraman, Rahul Gautam, Narendra Naik Deshavath, Erva Rajeswara Reddy, Biohydrogen Production from Wastewater and Organic Solid Wastes, In Waste-to-Energy Approaches Towards Zero Waste, Elsevier, 2022, 165-195. ISBN: 978-0-323-85387-3. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-85387-3.00009-4.
Seenivasan A, Muthuraj M, Panda T. Toxicological Study of Nanoparticles: An Attempt to Relate Physicochemical Characters with Toxicity. In: Shiva Nagendra S.M., Schlink U., Müller A., Khare M. (eds) Urban Air Quality Monitoring, Modelling, and Human Exposure Assessment. Springer Transactions in Civil and Environmental Engineering. 2020, 325-342. ISBN:978-981-15-5510-7.
Seenivasan A., T. Panda. Nanoparticles in clinical research: Benefits and Hazards. Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. American Scientific Publishers. 2019., Vol. 29, 1-52. ISBN: 1-58883-2120.
Seenivasan A., T. Panda. Proteins characterization by thermal property measurement, In 14th Chapter of Glass and State Transitions in Food and Biological Materials, Wiley-Black, 2017, 305-392. ISBN:9781118935729.
Journals
Pradhan N, Kumar S, Selvasembian R, Rawat S, Gangwar A, R S, Kit Yuen Y, Luo L, Ayothiraman S, Dattatraya Saratale G, Mal J. Emerging trends in the pretreatment of microalgal biomass and recovery of value-added products: A review, Bioresource Technology, 2022, 369, 128395 (IF: 11.88).
Dahiya D, Akhil P, Chirra PRR, Sreeramula V, Mogili NV, Ayothiraman S*. Morphological and structural characterization of chitin as a substrate for the screening, production, and molecular characterization of chitinase by Bacillus velezensis, Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2022; 29(57): 86550-86561 (IF: 5.19).
Sounderarajan S, Puchalapalli DSR, Ayothiraman S*. Effect of synthetic fatty liquor and neats foot oil on the reduction of chromium using Fusarium oxysporum and its kinetic study, Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2022; 29(57): 86427-86438 (IF: 5.19).
Suryawanshi N, Ayothiraman S*, Eswari JS. New Insights of Carbon Catabolite Repression and Kinetics Modeling for the Growth of Thermomyces lanuginosus. Chemical Engineering & Technology, 2022 ; 45; 1926-1933 (IF: 2.215).
Toppo AL, Yadav M, Dhagat S, Ayothiraman S*, Jujjavarapu SE. Molecular docking and ADMET analysis of synthetic statins for HMG-CoA reductase inhibition activity. Indian Journal of Biochemistry and Biophysics, 2021; 58(2): 127-34. (IF: 1.98)
Seenivasan A, Satya Eswari J, Sankar P, Gummadi SN, Panda T, Ch Venkateswarlu. Metabolic Pathway Analysis and Dynamic Macroscopic Model Development for Lovastatin Production by Monascus purpureus Using Metabolic Footprinting Concept, Biochemical Engineering Journal, 2020, 154, 107437. (IF: 3.98)
N Suryawanshi, S Ayothiraman, JS Eswari. Ultrasonication mode for the expedition of extraction process of chitin from the maritime shrimp shell waste, Indian Journal of Biochemistry and Biophysics, 2020, 57:431-438 (IF: 1.98).
Sharma V, Ayothiraman S, Dhakshinamoorthy V. Production of highly thermo-tolerant laccase from novel thermophilic bacterium Bacillus sp. PC-3 and its application in functionalization of chitosan film. Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering (2019) 127 (6), 672-678. (IF: 2.24)
Nisha S., J. Satya Eswari, Seenivasan A*. Marine shell industrial wastes–an abundant source of chitin and its derivatives: constituents, pretreatment, fermentation, and pleiotropic applications-a revisit. International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology,16, 3877-3898 (2019). (IF: 2.86)
Seenivasan A, Panda T, Venkatesan S. Cellular localization and production of lovastatin from Monascus purpureus, Indian Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2018, 80(1), 85-98. (IF: 0.72)
A. Seenivasan, J. Satya Eswari, K. Naveen kumar, D. Eswar Kranthi Kumar. Optimization of process conditions for the production of Pleurotus ostreatus using ANN and RSM. Current Biochemical Engineering, 2017, 4, 194 - 203.
Seenivasan A, S.N. Gummadi, Panda T. Comparison of the elution characteristics of individual forms of lovastatin in both isocratic and gradient modes and HPLC-PDA method development for pure and fermentation derived lovastatin, Preparative Biochemistry & Biotechnology, 2017, 47(9), 901-908. (IF: 2.162)
Sankaranaryanan R, Vignesh PR, Seenivasan Ayothiraman*, Gnanaprakash D, Ramakrishnan K. Characterization of terephthalic acid monomer recycled from post-consumer PET polymer bottles. Macromol Symp 2016, 361 (1), 30-33. (IF: 0.85)
Seenivasan A, Sathyanarayana N. Gummadi, Panda T. Quantification of Lovastatin produced by Monascus purpureus. The Open Biotechnology Journal. 2015, 9: 6-13. (IF: 1.7)
Seenivasan A, Panda T, Thomas Théodore. Lovastatin nanoparticle synthesis and characterization for better drug delivery, The Open Biotechnology Journal. 2011; 5, 28-32.(IF: 1.7)
Seenivasan A, Panda T, Thomas Théodore. Characterization, modes of synthesis, and pleiotropic effects of hypocholesterolemic compounds – A review, The Open Enzyme Inhibition Journal. 2011; 4, 23-32.
Seenivasan A, Subhagar S, Aravindan R, Viruthagiri T. Microbial production and biomedical applications of lovastatin. Indian Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences. 2008; 70(6): 701-9. (IF: 0.72)
Ayothiraman, S. Seraman, S. Rajendran, A. Thangavelu, V. Lovastatin - A potent hypercholesterol drug. Chem. Weekly 2008, 53 (40), 193-6.
Sathieesh Sounderarajan, Dinesh Sankar Reddy P, Seenivasan Ayothiraman, Effect of synthetic fatty liquor and neatsfoot oil as co-contaminants on the reduction of hexavalent chromium using Fusarium oxysporum and its kinetic study, International Conference on Advances in Chemical and Environmental Engineering, NIT Raipur, 16-17 Dec 2021.
Pilli Akhil, Chirra Pratap Raja Reddy, Sreeramula Vinay, Digvijay Dahiya, M.R.D.S. Nitish Venkateswarlu, Seenivasan Ayothiraman, Bioprospecting of shellfishery waste using a novel Bacillus sp. International Conference on Advances in Chemical and Environmental Engineering, NIT Raipur, 16th-17th Dec 2021.
S. Ayothiraman. Metabolic footprinting as a tool to understand the metabolic flux pattern in Monascus purpureus and to model the biosynthetic pathway of lovastatin. In: BIOT022C - Microbial Metabolic & Bioprocess Engineering: Non-Model Microbes: Metabolic Engineering & Synthetic Biology. ACS Fall 2020 National Meeting & Exposition in San Francisco, CA, August 17-20, 2020.
S. Ayothiraman. Medium as a message for metabolomic analysis. Metabolic footprinting: Tool to understand the effect of culture condition on the production of lovastatin by Monascus purpureus. BIOT 597, 2020 IN: Upstream Processes Next Generation Synthetic and Systems Biology Tools, ACS Spring 2020 National Meeting & Exposition, 24th March 2020.
A. Seenivasan, Wealth from Waste: Shellfishery Wastes as A Source of Chitin and Valuable Products, International Conference on Innovations and Research Advances in Aquaculture, Fisheries and Exploration of Deep Sea Fishing, Bhimvaram, 28th and 29th Aug 2019
A. Seenivasan, J. Satya Eswari, T. Panda, S.N. Gummadi, Ch. Venkateswarlu. Modeling of Metabolic Pathway of Lovastatin Biosynthesis, The 17th Congress, Asian Pacific Confederation of Chemical Engineering - Chemical Engineering for a Sustainably Developing World- the Role for the Asia Pacific Region, 23-27 Aug 2017, Hong Kong.
R. Jain, U. Agarwal, S. Ayothiraman, T. Panda. Molecular insight on the inhibition of rate-limiting step of cholesterol synthesis: Comparison of binding efficiency of statins – a platform for the screening of novel molecules- BIOT 565. In Division of Biochemical Technology, ACS National Meet at San Francisco, CA, USA, Apr 2-6, 2017.
Nisha S, Seenivasan A. Pretreatment of Chitin - Biotechnological opportunity, World Biotechnology Congress - 2017, 20th to 22nd Feb 2017 at New Delhi, India.
Nisha S, Seenivasan A. Microbial Cell Factories – A Versatile Material for the Reclamation of Heavy Metals Contaminated Soil. The International Journal of Arts & Sciences’ (IJAS) international conference, 8-11 Nov 2016, Univ. of London, UK, Paper ID: U6K984.
Nisha S, Seenivasan A, Vasanth D. Chitin and its derivatives: structure, production, and their applications, International conference, SCOPES-2016, at CUTM, Odisha during 3 - 5 Oct 2016, p. 127-130, ISBN: CFP16H12-PRT/978-1-5090-4619-5
A. Seenivasan, M. Muthuraj, T. Panda. Nanoparticles: hazard assessment based on physicochemical characterization, Indian International Conference on Air Quality Management (IICAQM-2016) IIT Madras, Chennai, 15th -16th Feb. 2016.
R. Sankaranarayanan, P.R. Vignesh, Seenivasan Ayothiraman, D. Gnanaprakash, K. Ramakrishnan. R Characterization of terephthalic acid monomer recycled from post-consumer PET polymer bottles. 3rd International Conference on Polymer Processing and Characterization (ICPPC-2014), M. G. Univ., Kottayam, Kerala on 11th -13th Oct 2014. (IL-81).
R. Sankaranarayanan, P.R. Vignesh, D. Gnanaprakash, K. Ramakrishnan, Seenivasan Ayothiraman. Recycling of polyethylene terephthalate by de-polymerization via alkaline hydrolysis to yield terephthalic acid. International Conference on Recent Advancement in Chemical, Environmental, and Energy Engineering, Chennai on 27-28 Feb 2014, page no. 42 (Abstract ID. 107).
Y. Abhishek Rao, V. Arulprahasam, Seenivasan Ayothiraman. Solid-state fermentation technology – a versatile tool for the biological process. International Conference on Recent Advancement in Chemical, Environmental, and Energy Engineering, Chennai on 27-28 Feb 2014, page no. 47 (Abstract ID. 118).
Seenivasan A, T. Panda. Biochemical Studies on lovastatin and simvastatin: biosynthesis and localization. Asian Congress on biotechnology Proceedings, Shanghai, China on 11th to 15th May 2011, page no. 138 (Abstract ID. A1274).
Seenivasan A, Selvaraju, N. Biohydrogen: an effective alternate to fossil fuel, National conference on recent trends in alternative energy 2011 at NIT, Calicut, Kerala, page no. 36. 9-10th June 2011.
Seenivasan A, T. Panda. Nano-assisted drug delivery system. Recent and Emerging Advances in Chemical Engineering (REACH-2010) Proceedings, International conference held at IIT Madras, Chennai. Dec 2-4, 2010.
Seenivasan A, T. Panda. Nano-Assisted Carriers for Lovastatin Oral Delivery System. 2nd International conference on materials for future (ICMF) Proceedings, 2011, Kerala on 23rd to 25th Feb, 2011, page no 79.
S. Seraman, S. Ayothiraman, A. Rajendran, and V. Thangavelu. Optimization of lovastatin production by Monascus purpureus MTCC 369 using Plackett-Burman and central composite statistical experimental design, 12th International Symposium on Preparative and Industrial Chromatography and Allied techniques (SPICA 2008), Switzerland, Page no. 179. Sep 29th to Oct 01st, 2008.
Seenivasan, A, Kannan, Muthu Sivaramapandian, M. Nanoparticles and targeted systems for cancer therapy in SCHEMCON 2007 held at Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Annamalai Univ., Tamil Nadu, India. September 21st-22nd, 2007.
Grants
Seed Grant, National Institute of Technology Andhra Pradesh, (2019-2023)
Seed Grant, National Institute of Technology Raipur, (2017-18)
Student Research Grant with S. Abishek and M. Karthik by SSN Trust (2013-14).
Student Research Grant with C. Sankkar, K. Sri Surya, M. Sharmila Priya by SSN Trust (2014-15)
Awards/Recognition
Young Scientist to participate in the 4th BRICS Young Scientist Forum, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil between 6th and 8th Nov 2019.
Invited to a two-day Sensitization Workshop on Waste Management Technologies (WMT) by Technology Development Division, DST (2018)
Innovative design award for smart cooler system from IIT Bombay (2015)
Nominated for Biotech Industrial Training Programme (BITP), Gov. of India (2008-09)
Outstanding student award in B. Tech Industrial Biotechnology (2002-2006)
Scored centum in Chemistry in the state-level higher secondary examination, Tamil Nadu (2002)
Academic Responsibilities
Head, Department of Biotechnology at NIT Andhra Pradesh (Sep 2018- Sep 2020)
Chairman, Board of Study (BoS) for M. Tech in Bioprocess Engineering, of the Biotechnology Dept. at NIT Andhra Pradesh (Sep 2018- Sep 2020)
Member of Strategic Planning Committee at NIT Andhra Pradesh (Jan 2020 – Till date)
Faculty In-charge, Internal Placement Training at NIT Raipur (2018)
Outreach activities
Technical Committee
Technical committee member in 3rd International Conference on Emerging Trends in Engineering, Science and Technologies (ICETEST-18). It is going to be held on 6th - 7th April 2018, Govt. College of Engineering, Tirusur.
Chairperson for review technical papers in the National Conference on Waste to Energy, Carbon Capture and Storage [NCWECCS-2017] to be held at National Institute of Technology Rourkela, Odisha during 3rd -5th August 2017.
Session chair
The International Journal of Arts & Sciences’ (IJAS) international conference, UK, 8th to 11th Nov 2016.
3rd International Conference on Polymer Processing and Characterization (ICPPC-2014), M. G. Univ., Kottayam, Kerala on 11th -13th Oct 2014.
Recent trends in Biotechnology for sustainable development at the Department of Biotechnology, P.S.R. College of Engineering, Sivakasi, Tamil Nadu from 20th and 21st 2014.
Talks
Valorization Of Shellfishery Wastes, Department of Biotechnology, Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering (SVCE), Mar 2022
Wealth from Shellfishery Waste, Department of Chemical Engineering, Paavai Engineering College, Tamil Nadu, Nov 2022
BIOMASS AND BIOENERGY, Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Agartala Jirania, Tripura, March 2021
Fundamental of reaction engineering in An Outlook of Chemical Webinar Series organized by the Department of Chemical Engineering, St. Joesph's College of Engineering, Chennai, July 2020
Fundamentals to Bioprocess Optimization and System Biology Approach in Faculty Development Programme on "Biochemical Engineering: Basics and Beyond” organized by the Department of Biotechnology, Kalasalingam University, Srivilliputhur, Tamil Nadu, Jun 2020.
Introduction to Biological Reaction Engineering" in Lecture series on Recent Trend in Bio Research" organized by the Department of Biotechnology, P.S.R. College of Engineering, May 2020.
Bioeconomy - Shellfishery wastes in 4th Young Scientist Forum at Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IMPA). Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Nov 2019.
Wealth from Waste: Shellfishery Wastes as A Source of Chitin and Valuable Products in International Conference on Innovations and Research Advances in Aquaculture, Fisheries and Exploration of Deep Sea Fishing, Bhimvaram, Aug 2019.
Shellfishery wastes" in the Two Day Sensitization Workshop on Waste Management Technologies (WMT) program organized by DST at PSG College, Coimbatore, Nov 2018.
Biochemical synthesis and energy production” on Recent Trends in Biotechnology for sustainable development at the Department of Biotechnology, P.S.R. College of Engineering, Sivakasi, Tamil Nadu, March 2014.
Research Group
Present
Past
Courses Taught
NIT Andhra Pradesh
Biological Reaction Engineering (UG and PG)
Bioreactor Design and Analysis (PG)
Bioprocess Engineering Theory and Lab (UG)
Downstream Processing in Biotechnology Theory and Lab (UG)
Metabolic Regulation and Engineering (UG)
Bioprocess Plant Design Modeling and Simulation Theory and Lab (UG)
NIT Raipur
Stoichiometric Calculations
Bioprocess Technology
Thermodynamics & Reaction Engineering
Analytical Techniques in Biotechnology Theory and Lab
SSN College of Engineering
Fermentation Engineering
Process plant utilities
Chemical Process Plant Safety