Shafeer Kalathil
About
Currently, I am working as an Assistant Professor at Hub for Biotechnology in the Built Environment, Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK. I am a Microbial Electrochemist interested in the applications of electric bacteria to produce either electricity from wastewater or value-added products from waste carbon. I have an MSc in Chemistry and, a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering (2013) with a research focus on Microbial Fuel Cells and Photocatalysis. After my Ph.D., I moved to the University of Tokyo as a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellow. During my JSPS tenure, I investigated the fundamental mechanism involved in bacterial extracellular electron transfer by taking Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 as the model bacterium. After my JSPS tenure, I joined at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) as a Postdoctoral Fellow. The research at KAUST was mainly on bioinspired synthesis of graphene and metal oxides using bacterium Geobacter sulfurreducens (the highest electricity producing bacterium till date) for water oxidation catalysis. After winning Marie Curie Individual Fellowship, I joined at Dept. of Chemistry, the University Cambridge as a Senior Postdoctoral Fellow. The Marie Curie research was mainly on artificial microbial photosynthesis to produce high-value chemical/fuels directly from carbon dioxide by mimicking natural photosynthesis. I have published 32 international peer-reviewed papers (e.g. Nature Catalysis, Nature Energy, PNAS, JACS, Advanced Materials and Chemistry of Materials) with an h-index of 26 (total citations: 2980, adapted from google scholar), three book chapters, and ten patents to my credit. Currently, I am serving as an Associate Editor for Frontiers in Microbiology. Also, I am a member of the Royal Society of Chemistry (MRSC) and the Royal Society of Biology (MRSB).