Professional Positions:

02/2017-2020:Post-doctoral scholarat Department of Chemistry, Xiamen University, China

Supervisor:Prof. Jian-Feng Li

Topics:Investigation of key-intermediates in electrocatalytic reactions by using shell

isolated nanoparticle enhanced Raman spectroscopy.

01/2015-01/2016:Post-doctoral scholarat Department of Chemistry, The University of Texas at

Austin, USA

Supervisor:Prof. Allen J. Bard (Former chief editor of JACS from 1980 to 2001)

Topics:Electrochemical methods to characterize the thin films modified

electrodes for electrochemical tunnelling spectroscopy. Electrodeposition of thin

insulating oxides films. Single nanoparticle collisions on ultramicroelectrode.

Higher Education:

2010 – 2014:Ph.D. studyat Department of Chemistry, University of Bern, Switzerland

Supervisor:Prof. Thomas Wandlowski (2010-2013), Prof. em. H. Siegenthaler (2014)

Topics:Charge transport properties of single nanoparticles and redox ionic liquids at

solid-liquid interface. Synthesis of thiol protected silver and gold clusters and of their

self-assemblies and electrochemical investigations.

2008 – 2010:M.Sc. studyat Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, India

Supervisor:Prof. Thalappil Pradeep

Topic:Synthesis of mercaptosuccinic acid (MSA) protected silver nanoclusters

(Ag9MSA7), and of their (Ag9MSA7@TiO2) heterogeneous catalysis.

2004 – 2007:Undergraduate study in Chemistry and B.Sc.at S. S. B. N College,

Srikrishnadevaraya university, India

Publications:

1. Thumu Udaya B. Rao,Nataraju Bodappa,and Pradeep Thalappil. “Ag9Quantum Cluster through a

Solid-State Route”.J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2010,132(46), 16304–16307.

2. Jian-Feng Li, A. Rudnev, Yongchun Fu,Nataraju Bodappa, and T. Wandlowski.“In SituSHINERS

at Electrochemical Single-Crystal Electrode/Electrolyte Interfaces: Tuning Preparation Strategies and

Selected Applications”.ACS Nano, 2013,7(10), 8940–8952.

3.Nataraju Bodappa, Ulrike Fluch, Yongchun Fu, Marcel Mayor, Pavel Moreno-García, Hans

Siegenthaler, and T. Wandlowski. “Controlled Self-assembly, Single Electron Charging of Single Au144

Cluster by Electrochemical Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy”.Nanoscale, 2014, 6, 15117-15126.

4. Nataraju Bodappa, P. Broekmann, Y. Fu, J. Furrer, Y. Furue, T. Sagara, H. Siegenthaler, H. Tahara,

S. Vesztergom, K. Zick, and T. Wandlowski. “Temperature dependent Physical and Electron Transport

Properties of Viologen type Ionic Liquid”.J. Phys. Chem. C,2015,119(2), 1067–1077.

5. Caleb M. Hill, J. Kim,Nataraju Bodappaand Allen J Bard “Electrochemical Nonadiabatic Electron

Transfer via Tunneling to Solution”.J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2017,137(17), 6114–6119.

6.Nataraju Bodappa,Elina Kalenius, Thumu Udaya B. Rao, Th. Pradeep, H. Siegenthaler, and Th.

Wandlowski “Counter Ion Induced Enhanced Stability of Monolayer Protected Silver Quantum

Clusters,”J. Cluster Science, 2017Submitted

Achievements:

iChEM Postdoctoral researcher fellowship 2017,Xiamen university, China

Selected for interview at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR)-Ph.D (2010).

Qualified for National Eligibility Test (NET) by Council of scientific and industrial research

(CSIR), Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) for Ph.D. (2010).

1strankin the entrance test for admission into M.Sc at the Banaras Hindu University. (2008, All

India Level).

67thrankin Indian Institute of Technology- Joint Admission Test for M.Sc (IIT-JAM) for

entrance into IIT (2008, All India Level).