Sensors in Water Pollutants Monitoring: Role of Material

Dr. Pooja D. is currently working as a senior scientist at CSIR-CSIO, Chandigarh. She has done her Ph.D. in Engineering from the AcSIR, New Delhi, M. Tech. in Nanotechnology from IIT Roorkee with Gold Medal, B. Tech in Biotechnology with the first rank from Kurukshetra University. She is a well-established young scientist in the field of nanomaterials, sensors, and energy harvesting devices. She has published 45 international high impact publications, 02 books and more than 50 conference papers . Her research interest is towards techniques and technologies design and development for water pollutants monitoring using opto/electrochemical techniques. She has mainly focused on materails design for above application. Besides, she is also working on materials engineering for solar hydrogen production. She is recipient of several prestigious awards and fellowships including Associateship, Indian Academy of Science, ISCA Young Scientist Award (2019) from Indian Science Congress Association, ISEES Young Scientist Award (2019) by International Society for Energy, Environment and Sustainability, BRICS Young Scientist Award (2018), DST, New Delhi, PITTCON- Travel Grant (2018) from American Chemical Society, Indo-US WARI fellowship (2017), New Delhi, Young Scientist Project Award (2017) from DST, New Delhi, Canadian Commonwealth Fellowship (2010), and MHRD GATE Fellowship (2008). She is also an Outreach Programs Coordinator: CSIR-JIGYASA and CSIR-FTAMP funded by the Gov. of India, Focal Point Member in Indigo projects (European Commission) (2016-2017), Member of Board of Studies, Kurukshetra University, Member of National Advisory Committee, ICAST-2018, Jaipur, India (2018).