Sonika Sharma is an Assistant Professor at the Physics Department, Graphic Era Hill University, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India, 248002. She obtained a BSc in Physics at Aligarh Muslim University in 2006 and an MSc in Physics at Aligarh Muslim University in 2008, specializing in spectroscopy and electronics, a Master of Technology Nanotechnology at Aligarh Muslim University in 2010 and a PhD in Optical fiber sensors at the Indian Institute of Technology in 2019. Sonika Sharma is an experienced researcher designing fiber optic plasmonic chemical/biosensors, skilled in surface plasmon resonance, localized surface plasmon resonance, loss mode resonance, and nanomaterials.
Neeti Kalyani is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Technical University of Denmark working on biosensors and digital microfluidics. She obtained her PhD from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India in Biochemical Engineering and Biotechnology in 2018. She has experience in electrochemical biosensors, SELEX, digital microfluidics, and bioelectronics.
Taposhree Dutta received her B.Sc. degree in Chemistry, Zoology and Botany (2007) and MSc degree in
Chemistry (2009) from the Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University, Kanpur, India. and her PhD degree in Science (Chemistry) from Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology Shibpur, India in 2021. From 2020 to 2022, she was a senior research associate at the Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, India. Her research interests are in the development and characterization of nanomaterials, carbon based nanomaterials, hetero-polyoxometalets, their composites and various applications like sensors, catalysis, energy, water splitting, H2 evolution, drug delivery, antibacterial, DNA damage and repair, surface coating, 3D printing, cosmetics, etc., She is a member of SBIC and the Indian Science Congress.
J.S. Velázquez-González obtained a BEng degree in Comm. and Electronics (In Electronics) and an MSc degree in Electronics Eng. (IDigital Image Processing) from Instituto Politécnico Nacional of México (IPN–ESIME Zac. and IPN–SEPI–ESIME Zac.) in 2008 and 2011, respectively. In March 2017, he obtained a PhD degree (in Advanced Technology: Optical Fibre Sensors) from IPN-CIITEC. In June 2017 he started a postdoctoral position at Centro de Investigaciones en Óptica (CIO A.C.) in León, Guanajuato, México under the mentoring of Professor David Monzón-Hernández, leader of the Optical Sensors and Microdevices Group (GSOM – CIO A.C.). Since December 2020 he has been a researcher at Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC) in Castelldefels (Barcelona). His research activity is focused on the experimental investigation of advanced optical devices for sensing and light manipulation, including evanescent wave devices and metal-coated structures. The present research activity of Dr. Velázquez-González is focused on the development of a single- or multi-parameter sensing platform, and photonics devices based on surface plasmon resonance for monitoring hazardous chemical compounds.
Dr. Llamas-Garro is an expert in the field of device engineering and implementation from design to fabrication applied to wireless communications and sensors, including RF and microwave circuits, with special interest in reconfigurable designs using microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), and semiconductor diode-based components, 3D printing of microwave passive components, inkjet printing of planar circuits, and micro/nano fabricated optical sensors for the detection of hazardous liquids and gases.He obtained his PhD from the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom in 2003, and has been with the CTTC since 2010. Previous appointments include a postdoctoral stay at the Inter-University Semiconductor Research Center, followed by a BK-21 assistant professorship at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Seoul National University, Korea. He was an Associate Professor with the Large Millimeter Telescope at the National Institute for Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics INAOE, Mexico, and a Juan de la Cierva Fellow with the Signal Theory and Communications Department at the Technical University of Catalonia UPC, Barcelona. Co-author of the book “Frequency Measurement Technology”, Artech House, Norwood, MA, USA, 2018. Dr. Llamas-Garro received the NATO Science Partnership Prize 2018. Co-general chair of the 20th SBMO/IEEE MTT-S International Microwave and Optoelectronics Conference, 2023.
Bora Ung completed a B.Eng and M.Sc in Physics at Laval University with a specialization in optics-photonics. He has a PhD in engineering physics (2012) from the Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal in the development of novel microstructured optical fibers. As a postdoctoral fellow at Laval, he performed research in the transmission of inhomogeneous optical beams and worked on multi-material textile fibers. Since September 2014 he has been a professor at the electrical engineering department of the École de Technologie Supérieure and a member of the strategic cluster Center for Optics, Photonics and Lasers (COPL). He heads the Photonic Innovations Lab and is a member of the LACIME research group.
Dr. Rakesh Dubey is affiliated with the Institute of Physics, University of Szczecin in Szczecin, Poland. From 2019 to 2021, Dr. Dubey worked as a Physicist in Research and Development at NeutronGate
Oy in Riihimäki, Finland. Dr. Dubey’s scientific output includes 51 publications in various journals, with an h-index of 11 (Scopus, March 2024).
