Two Dimensional Nanostructures for Biomedical Technology

Raju Khan is a Senior Scientist & Group Leader at Analytical Chemistry Group, CSIR-North East Institute of Science & Technology, Jorhat, Assam, Govt. of India. He received his MSc degree in Inorganic Chemistry and PhD in Physical Chemistry from Jamia Millia Islamia, Central University, New Delhi, India, 2002 & 2005, respectively. Thereafter, he worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the “Sensor Research laboratory” Department of Chemistry, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa, in the year 2005-06 and also worked as a Fast Track Young Scientist at CSIR-National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi Govt. of India. Dr Khan was involved in synthesize of novel materials to fabricate electrochemical biosensor to detect target disease risk biomarker for health care monitoring. Dr Khan is also engaged other external project funding National & International collaborative project, Indo-Czech Republic & Indo-Russia. After successful completion of awarded tenure, Dr. Khan joined as Scientist at Analytical Chemistry Division, CSIR-North East Institute of Science and Technology (NEIST), a research laboratory of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Govt. of India and he is also promoted and currently working as a Senior Scientist. He was awarded the BOYSCAST fellowship to work work as a visiting scientist for one year at University of the Texas at Sanantonio, USA. Since then, Dr. Khan has served with more than 10 years R&D and teaching experience, producing high quality research, mentoring students, and supporting analytical division as outsource facility.

Shaswat Barua is currently working as a CSIR-Nehru Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at CSIR-North East Institute of Science & Technology, Jorhat, Assam, Govt. of India. He received his B.Sc. in Chemistry from Jorhat Science College and M.Sc. and Ph.D. from Tezpur University, Assam, India. The main focus of his research is the development of high performance biomaterials. He did his post-doctoral research in Defence Research Laboratory, DRDO, Tezpur, India and Institute of Nano Science and Technology, Mohali, India. He has been working as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the School of Basic Sciences, Assam Kaziranga University, India since August 2016.