Dr. Siddarth Krishna is an assistant professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Prior to joining UW–Madison as faculty in 2022, Dr. Krishna was an a Henson Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Purdue University. He received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from UW-Madison as an NSF Graduate Research Fellow.

As a graduate student, Dr. Krishna worked with James A. Dumesic and George W. Huber on the conversion mechanisms of biomass-derived intermediates to renewable chemicals over metal and acid catalysts. In his postdoctoral work, Dr. Krishna's worked on understanding active site requirements for automotive nitric oxide pollution abatement over metal-exchanged zeolites.

Dr. Krishna's research combines atomically precise catalyst synthesis and characterization tools with detailed kinetic and mechanistic studies of complex reaction networks, to address urgent sustainability challenges such as eliminating harmful emissions and producing fuels and chemicals from renewable feedstocks.