Surface Engineering and Functional Nanomaterials for Point-of-Care Analytical Devices

About

Dr. Buddhadev Purohit is currently working at Department of Biotechnology and Biomedicine (DTU Bioengineering) Technical University of Denmark. He obtained his Masters degree in Life Sciences from Sambalpur University and pursued his Ph.D. at the Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati India. His research focuses on designing of novel electrochemical and optical biosensing platforms. He is also involved in development of microfluidics systems smartphone-based biosensors and portable low-cost diagnostic devices.Prof. Pranjal Chandra is an Associate Professor at the School of Biochemical Engineering Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi India. He earned his Ph.D. from Pusan National University South Korea and did post-doctoral training at Technion-Israel Institute of Technology Israel. His research focus is highly interdisciplinary spanning a wide range in biotechnologynanobiosensors material engineering and nanomedicine. He has designed several commercially viable biosensing prototypes that can be operated for onsite analysis for biomedical diagnostics. He is an associate editor / editorial board member of various international journals including Scientific Reports Sensors International Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology Molecules Frontiers in Sensors and Green Analytical Chemistry. He is an expert member/reviewer of various national and international funding agencies. He has also been appointed as Advisor for the Biomedical Sensors Domain and Sensor Networks Systems at the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) Michael Faraday House LONDON United Kingdom. Prof. Chandra has authored over 140 high-impact publications including research/review papers and invited book chapters and published 15 books on biosensors/medical diagnostics / material engineering. He has guided 5 Ph.D. and currently supervising 8 Ph.D. students. Prof. Chandra received many prestigious awards coveted honors and fellowships such as Fellow of the Indian Chemical Society Shakuntala Amirchand Award 2020 by the Indian Council Of Medical Research NASI-Prof. B.K. Bachhawat Memorial Young Scientist Lecture Award (2022); FSSAI Eat Right Award-2022 (Government of India); DST Ramanujan fellowship (Government of India); Early Career Research Award (ECRA) (DST Government of India); BK -21 and NRF fellowship South Korea; Technion Post-Doctoral Fellowship Israel; Nano Molecular Society India Young Scientist Award; Biotech Research Society India Young Scientist Award; Young Engineers Award 2018; Highly Cited Corresponding authors in The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Cambridge London; Top 10% cited article in the General Chemistry Section RSC Journal Cambridge London Gandhian Young Technology Innovation Award (GYTI) 2020 etc. Dr. Chandra is also listed among the worlds top 2% scientists in 2020 and 2021 by Stanford University USA.