Seemesh BhaskarDr. Seemesh Bhaskar is a Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology (IGB) fellow at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), USA. He completed his Ph.D. from STAR Lab, Central Research Instruments Facility (CRIF), SSSIHL, and postdoctoal studies from NanoStructured Materials (NSM) group, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay. He has pursued research internships at SASTRA University and the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, as part of the DST-Inspire program. He is the recipient of the prestigious DST-Inspire scholarship & fellowship, AWSAR, K. V. Rao Scientific Society (KVRSS), Young Achiever, M.Sc. Chemistry Gold medal and All-rounder Gold medal awards. His research work focuses on building effective nano-engineering protocols for photo-plasmonic biosensing at advanced interfaces comprising sustainable bioinspired polymeric hybrids. Read More Read Less