South Africa
Post doctoral training in the Molecular Design and Computational Chemistry Laboratory at the Universitat de Politechnica (UPC) in Barcelona, Spain
Krishna Bisetty
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Department of Chemistry, Durban University of Technology, South Africa.
Research Interests:
Smart nanostructured electrode materials and modified electrode surfaces, electroactive polymers, electrochemical biosensors, with applications in the environmental, food, health and pharmaceutical areas.
- Design, model and fabricate doped smart materials to improve human health and biosensor technology.
- Focused on smart-engineered nanostructured electrode materials, modified electrode surfaces and single particle characterisation for the development of biosensors.
- Understand the synergy between the experimental and computational approaches for effective electrochemical sensing
- Machine Learning and QSAR modelling added to modelling toolbox
Biography:
Prof Krishna Bisetty is a Full Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Durban University of Technology (DUT) in South Africa. He received his PhD from the University of Natal, and subsequently undertook post doctoral training in the Molecular Design and Computational Chemistry Laboratory at the Universitat de Politechnica (UPC) in Barcelona, Spain under the supervision of Prof Juan Perez and Prof Jesus Jomez Catalan. As an NRF C1 rated scientist and an experienced science educator, he is currently managing and leading the “Computational Modelling and BioAnalytical Chemistry” research group at DUT with a strong national and international collaborations. He is a co-author of over 120 international papers, four book chapters, a supervisor to over 20 masters and doctoral students and more than 5 post doctoral fellows. He served on several Conference Organizing Committees and his work presented at local and international conferences. He also held visiting positions at the Jamia Islamia University (A central University) in India, the University of Valencia in Spain, the University of Mauritius and the University of Latvia.
Publications:
- Analysis of the conformational profile of trishomocubane amino acid dipeptide
- A theoretical study of pentacyclo-undecane cage peptides of the type [Ac-X-Y-NHMe]
- Conformational analysis of small peptides of the type Ac–X–NHMe, where X=Gly, Ala, Aib and Cage
- Computational study of the conformational preferences of the(R)-8-amino-pentacyclo[5.4.0.02,6.03,10.05,9] undecane-8-carboxylic acid monopeptide