Dr. Chaitanya is a materials scientist with 16+ years of research experience in the areas of nanostructured materials, electrochemical and optical sensors for analyte detection, (photo-electro) catalysis, and nano-spin electronics. Her passion lies within research and technology development in healthcare, water quality monitoring and sustainable energy through use of advanced functional nanostructured materials and composites.
She is interested in addressing grand challenges in India and globally through research involving academia & government labs and with industry partnership. She has authored 45 research publications in peer-reviewed international and national journals, has obtained several research and innovation grants from different national, international, state government and institutional funding agencies, and has three patents to her credit.
She also pursues her interests in Teaching, research guiding, student internships and mentoring at Plaksha.
Dr. Chaitanya completed her Masters and PhD from Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, and served as a visiting scientist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA. She was also part of a multi-partner European Union project functioning as a senior postdoctoral researcher at National Nanotechnology Laboratory, Italy. Prior to joining Plaksha, she was heading Centers for Materials Science, and Sensors & Nanoelectronics at the CMR Institute of Technology, Bengaluru.
A recipient of many awards that includes Young Scientist Fellowship from Department of Science & Technology, Govt. of India, Mayanna Endowment Lecture Award from The Electrochemical Society of India, Scientist of the Year 2017 award at the European Advanced Materials Conference, Stockholm, Sweden, and Bharat Vikas Award by Institute of Self-Reliance, Bhubaneswar on Citizen’s Day for contributions to product development, Chaitanya also serves as the Governing Council Member of the Electrochemical Society of India since 2015, and a global affiliate member of Society for Women Engineers.
