Dr. Vaibhav R. Acham

Founder & Managing Director

Ph.D. ChemistryCSIR-NCL PuneHumboldt University Berlin

Chemistry is the study of matter, but I prefer to think of it as the study of change.

Dr. Acham holds a Ph.D. in Chemistry with expertise in heterogeneous catalyst development and application, having researched at CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory in Pune and Humboldt University in Berlin. He brings over fifteen years of industrial R&D experience across specialty chemicals, pyridine chemistry, and food-safety analysis, spanning laboratory establishment, catalyst development, and process scale-up.

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Areas of expertise

Where the depth is.

Heterogeneous catalysisCatalyst developmentCatalyst characterisationIndustrial catalytic applicationsSynthetic organic method design

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Career history

Where the experience was built.

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Food Safety Department

Established a food safety laboratory for Royal private affairs. Synthesis and analysis of organic compounds using GC-MS, LC-MS and ICP-MS.

Senior Research Scientist · Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

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Resonance Specialties Limited

Overall R&D project management across the specialty portfolio. Catalyst synthesis and characterisation for pyridine chemistry applications. Built and maintained collaborations with research institutions.

DGM, R&D · Tarapur, India

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Odyssey Organics Pvt. Ltd.

Established and commissioned the R&D department. Developed synthesis methods for specialty chemicals.

Manager, R&D · Mahad, India

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Education

Research background.

CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory, Pune

Ph.D. research in heterogeneous catalyst development and characterisation.

Humboldt University, Berlin

Research in catalysis and industrially relevant catalytic applications.

Published work

Patents: 2
International publications: 5
Conference presentations: 8

From the lab

What Vaibhav has written.

A worker spraying a green field with a knapsack sprayer, seen at a distance across the crop

Case Study

Why a Zinc Micronutrient Vanishes in Hard Water

A chelated zinc feed can meet its label grade in the drum and still deliver almost nothing in the field, because the spray water gets there first. One of our own formulation programmes, worked out from the water analysis outwards.

Dr. Vaibhav R. Acham29 August 20266 min read

Coarse crystals gathered in a shallow glass dish, seen from directly above

Article

Why a Crystallisation Stops Behaving at Scale

A crystallisation that gave a clean, filterable solid at the bench can give a slow, sticky one in a pilot vessel, and the reaction is rarely what changed. Cooling profile, seeding, and crystal habit explain most of it.

Dr. Vaibhav R. Acham5 August 20267 min read

A technician in a coverall and gloves transferring a white crystalline powder onto a watch glass

Case Study

Holding an Agrochemical Intermediate to a Consistent Assay

One of our own manufacturing programmes rather than a client project. The reactive chloride that makes 2-chloroacetamide useful downstream is the same one that degrades it, and that single fact governs the whole process.

Dr. Vaibhav R. Acham18 July 20266 min read

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