The Indian-American professor of chemical engineering at Mississippi State University, Neeraj Rai, for his outstanding research in developing advanced computational frameworks to understand the physical and chemical processes at the molecular level, going to receive $750,000 as an award.
Rai, whose research titled as “Probing Condensed-Phase Structure and Dynamics in Hierarchical Zeolites and Nanosheets for Catalytic Upgradation of Biomass”, is among the 59 other scientists, who have won the award.
The President for research and economic development of MSU, David Shaw, while reacting on the incident said that the organization is “very proud” of the achievements made by Dr. Rai and his contribution to the University.
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Rai, who joined Dave C. Swalm School of Chemical Engineering under the Bagley College of Engineering of the MSU in 2013, was working as the postdoctoral research associate at the Catalyst Center for Energy Innovation in the University of Delaware’s Energy Frontier Research Center.
Rai is alumni of the Karnataka Regional Engineering College, (now National Institute of Technology, Karnataka, India), where he received his bachelor’s degree.
