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Summary:

     Murugan Muthu is a Postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Civil Engineering, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Poland. He is a scholarship holder of the ULAM NAWA programme numbered 7/2021. The duration of his ULAM scholarship is 24 months (01-06-2022 to 31-05-2024). He received a funding aid of 0.31 million PLN for the research topic entitled ‘concrete filter for low-cost treatment of industrial wastewater’.
     Murugan obtained a PhD in Civil Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, a Master degree and a Bachelor degree in Civil Engineering from the Anna University (India), and a Diploma degree in Civil Engineering from the Central Polytechnic College, India. Earlier, he was a scholarship holder of two Postdoc grants ‘Future Talents’ and ‘Career Bridging Grant’ which has been funded by the Technische Universität Darmstadt in Germany. He also served as a Research Fellow at the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. More than two years, Murugan worked as an R&D Manager at the Larsen & Toubro Construction, which is India’s largest construction sector. He has authored 16 scientific papers, exposed to both academic and industrial research environments for the past 10 years, and trained well to handle advanced research tools that are generally used in the study of physicochemical behaviour of solids and solutions.

Research Interests:

Low carbon cements, concrete water filter, and nanoengineered cement composites

Achievements:

• In 2017, his research proposal submitted to the EU Marie Curie Individual Fellowship was awarded Seal of Excellence.
• In 2014, he received the best poster award at the Clean Water International Conference organized at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras.
• In 2010, he was awarded the best outgoing undergraduate student of the college.

Top publications:

• Boddapati Ganesh Kumar, Murugan Muthu, Adrian Chajec, Lukasz Sadowski, and V. Govindaraj, The effect of silica fume on the washout resistance of environmentally friendly underwater concrete with high-volume of siliceous fly ash, Construction and Building Materials, 327, April 2022.

• Murugan Muthu, En-Hua Yang, and Cise Unluer, Effect of graphene oxide on the deterioration of cement pastes exposed to citric and sulfuric acids, Cement and Concrete Composites, 124, Nov 2021.

• Murugan Muthu, Sandeep Yadav, and Jörg J. Schneider, Investigation of the changes in properties and microstructure of graphene oxide-modified cement pastes due to hydrochloric acid attack, Taylor & Francis Journal of Sustainable Cement-based Materials, Feb 2021.

• Murugan Muthu, Neven Ukrainczyk, and Eddie Koenders, Effect of graphene oxide dosage on the deterioration properties of cement pastes exposed to an intense nitric acid environment, Construction and Building Materials, 269, Feb 2021.

• Murugan Muthu, Sanjeev Kumar, En-Hua Yang, and Cise Unluer, Degradation of carbonated reactive MgO-based concrete exposed to HNO3, Journal of CO2 Utilization, 36, Feb 2020.

• Murugan Muthu, Krishnan Chandrasekharapuram Ramakrishnan, Manu Santhanam, Murali Rangarajan, and Mathava Kumar, Heavy metals removal and leaching from pervious concrete filter: Influence of operating water head and reduced graphene oxide addition, ASCE Journal of Environmental Engineering, 145(9), Sep 2019.

• Murugan Muthu and Manu Santhanam, Effect of reduced graphene oxide, alumina and silica nanoparticles on the deterioration characteristics of Portland cement paste exposed to an acidic environment, Cement and Concrete Composites, 91, Aug 2018.

• Murugan M., Manu Santhanam, Soujit Sen Gupta, T. Pradeep, and Surendra P. Shah, Influence of 2D rGO nanosheets on the properties of OPC paste, Cement and Concrete Composites, 70, Mar 2016.