Seemesh Bhaskar
Seemesh Bhaskar received his B.Sc. honours (2016) and M.Sc. (2018) degrees in Chemistry from Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning, India. He completed his Ph.D. degree from Surface plasmon-based Translational and Advanced Research (STAR) Lab, Central Research Instruments Facility (CRIF), SSSIHL in 2021 in the domain of photo-plasmonics. Further, he pursued post-doctoral studies at NanoStructured Materials (NSM) group, IIT Bombay. During his research internships at SASTRA University and Indian Institute of Science, as part of the DST-Inspire program he obtained expertise in Raman & Luminescence spectroscopy, Microfluidics, electrochemistry and Microscopy. He is the recipient of the prestigious DST-Inspire scholarship & fellowship, AWSAR, K. V. Rao Scientific Society (KVRSS), Young Achiever, M.Sc. Chemistry and All-rounder Gold medal awards. His research work in collaboration with various universities including IIT-Bombay, IIT-Kharagpur, IIT-Gandhinagar, CIIRC focuses on building effective nano-engineering protocols for biosensing at advanced physicochemical interfaces, and is the pioneer in the development of the photonic crystal-coupled emission (PCCE) platform (2020), CryoSoret nanoengineering technology (2022), Ferroplasmon-on-a-mirror (FPoM) technology (2023).
In 2022, Seemesh joined the Prof. Brian T. Cunningham’s Nanosensors group at HMNTL, UIUC as a post-doctoral research associate. He became an IGB fellow in the multi-disciplinary theme of Center for Genomic Diagnostics (CGD) and focusses on development of integrated photonic platforms for detection of disease-related biomolecules in buffer and in bodily fluids. His specific research interests include utilization of photonic crystal nanostructures in conjunction with microscopy-based detection instruments to detect biomarker molecules such as miRNA, ctDNA, and proteins with single-molecule resolution, thereby facilitating point-of-care diagnostic tests for resource-limited settings.