Vita

Samrat D is from Kotturu, Vijayanagara, Karnataka. He attended Kottureshwara college, Kotturu (B.Sc., 2004), the Department of Chemistry, Gulbarga University (M.Sc., 2006), and the Department of Studies in Chemistry, Bangalore University (PhD., 2014).

He joined the Center for Nano and Material Science, at Jain University in 2012 as a Research Associate. Then joined Key Laboratory of Bioelectrochemistry and Environmental Analysis of Gansu Province, Northwest Normal University, Gansu, China to pursue his postdoctoral studies in 2015.

He joined the faculty at the Department of Chemistry, Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering, Bengaluru in 2017. Worked there as an assistant Professor for two years. He joined Department of Chemistry at RV Institute of Technology and Management in 2019.

He was awarded visiting fellowship by Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Jakkur. And spent three months in the International Center for Material Sciences’ Atomic Layer Deposition Lab of Prof. C.N.R. Rao.

He is working as a mentor with one Ph.D. student. He has published over 25 peer-reviewed research papers, four book chapters. His research interests involve developing simple and inexpensive electrochemical methods (devices) for the quantification of heavy metal ions, biomolecules, electrochemical characterization and analysis of materials.