Water Sciences Laboratory (WSL)

Nancy Sidana

Nancy Sidana is a Ph.D student from our work. She has worked as JRF in project entitled “Smartphone Imaging aided point-of-care dipstick platform for heavy metal sensing in water” under the supervision of Dr. Pooja D. at CSIR-CSIO Sector 30, Chandigarh. Her research area comprises Study of Organic Linkers for colorimetric detection of heavy metal ions. She has published 4 research paper and 1 book chapter. In addition, she has presented her work as two Poster Presentation in International conference and one oral presentation in National Conference.

Ms. Shipra has done her M.tech in Automation  and Robotics from AKTU(2017), and B.tech in Electronics and  Communication from AKTU(2013). As a Project Associate in our group, she has worked upon developing optical device for selenium detection in water.

Mr. Sidhant has done his M.Sc in Mathematics from Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra (2019). He worked as a project assistant in our group and handled JIGYASA outreach activities.

Gurvinder has done his graduation form Kurukshetra university in 2016 and Masters in Physics from the Department of Physics K.U. in 2018 . He has worked one year in D. A. V college Ambala as Assistant professor of physics. He worked in our group on material science and electrochemistry including the design of photoelectrodes.

Vikas has completed his Master of Technology in Electronics and Communication Engineering. Earlier, he worked in Berggruen Car Rentals Pvt. Ltd, New Delhi as a Software Developer. In our group, he developed on the mobile app and device development for colorimetric detection of water pollutants.

Priyanka did her Masters in Industrial Chemistry from Dr. SSBUICET, Panjab University (2018-2020). As an M.Sc. Trainee in our group, she has worked upon the colorimetric detection of heavy metals in water.

Shelly has done her M.Tech. in Nanotechnology (Department of Physics) from NIT Kurukshetra. As an M.Tech trainee, she has worked upon TiO2 nanofibers/bR hybrid electrodes for solar hydrogen generation.

Chetan completed his Masters in Industrial Chemistry from Dr. SSBUICET, Panjab University (2018-2020). He worked as MSc. Trainee in our group and established chromatographic methods for selenium quantification Currently he is working as executive officer in Cipla Ltd.

Simardep completed her Master's from Panjab University. She worked as MSc. Trainee in our work and worked on Gold nanoparticles functionalization for sensing.

Neha completed her Master's from Panjab University (2018-2020). As an M.Sc. Trainee in our group, she worked on green synthesized nanostructures for sensing, security ink, and bactericidal activity. Currently, she is working as Junior Research Fellow, PGIMER, Chandigarh

Currently working as a Graduate Research Assistant in Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering, Greensboro, North Carolina, USA. Educational Qualification: B.Sc. (Non medical)- S.D. College ,Panipat (KUK) M.Sc. ( Chemistry) , D.C.R.U.S.T. Murthal, Qualified CSIR-NET/JRF Dec. 2018 (AIR-51). Hobby : Singing, dancing, reading

Abhishek is a Mechanical Engineering Graduate and have completed his Master of Technology in Energy Engineering from IIT Mandi. His research interests are Structure-Property relationships of Materials, Electropsun Nanofibers for energy applications and Environmental sustainability.

Lovepreet is a doctoral student in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering (DoMSE) at the National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur, India. He worked upon functional carbon dots for sensing applications in our group as an M.Tech trainee.

Mr. Vinod K. Lokku worked earlier with us on the design of system for electrochemcial and optical detection of water pollutants. Currently, he is working at CSIO, Chennai center as Ph.D. student.