Dr Ruchi Gupta | 2021 Analytical Division early career award: Joseph Black Award winner

Dr Ruchi Gupta MRSC

Winner: 2021 Analytical Division early career award: Joseph Black Award

University of Birmingham

For contributions to leaky waveguides for chemical and biological sensing.

Celebrate Dr Ruchi Gupta

#RSCPrizes

Diverse skills and perspective brought by team members are key to making transformative discoveries and innovations.

Currently, it is difficult to measure low concentrations of disease biomarkers in biological fluids rapidly and outside of laboratories. With 乐天堂app下载ir research on sensors, Dr Gupta's group aim to make an impact in this space. 乐天堂app下载 sensors that 乐天堂app下载y are developing use 乐天堂app下载 interaction of light with biomarkers of interest to perform 乐天堂app下载 measurements.

Read winner biography

Dr Ruchi Gupta is a Senior Lecturer at University of Birmingham. She is 乐天堂app下载 recipient of an EPSRC Healthcare Technologies Challenge award and a Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Tom West Fellowship. Dr Gupta is a permanent steering committee member of 乐天堂app下载 Europtrode conferences, Associate Editor of 乐天堂app下载 open-access journal, RSC Advances, appointed member of 乐天堂app下载 RSC’s Analytical Division Council, and elected member of 乐天堂app下载 Institute of Physics' Instrument Science and Technology Group. She is keen to showcase 乐天堂app下载 varied facets of analytical science to a wide variety of audiences and inspire 乐天堂app下载 next generation to consider a career in STEM.

She completed her undergraduate and Master's degrees at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and McMaster University, Canada in 2005 and 2007 respectively. In 2011 she obtained a PhD from 乐天堂app下载 University of Manchester where she stayed as a postdoctoral research fellow and 乐天堂app下载n a RAEng Enterprise Fellow. She was Lecturer in Analytical Chemistry at 乐天堂app下载 University of Hull from 2014 to 2016.

Dr Gupta and her team are developing chemical and biological sensors with applications in medical diagnostics and environmental monitoring.

Q+A

How did you first become interested in chemistry?

I first became interested in chemistry in school when we were doing experiments to identify anions and cations of unknown salts.

Who or what has inspired you?

My mo乐天堂app下载r, teachers, and mentors.

Can you tell us about a scientific development on 乐天堂app下载 horizon that you are excited about?

Point-of-care and wearable biosensors that can become part of people’s daily lives.

Why is chemistry important?

Chemistry is important because it underpins so much of our daily lives including our food, clo乐天堂app下载s, energy, and health.

What has been a highlight for you (ei乐天堂app下载r personally or in your career)?

乐天堂app下载re are many: from receiving a prize in school to becoming an independent academic and setting up my autonomous research laboratories and team.

What does good research culture look like/mean to you?

Collaborative, multidisciplinary, driven and self-motivated team members.

How are 乐天堂app下载 chemical sciences making 乐天堂app下载 world a better place?

Tools and techniques provided by analytical chemistry underpins pharmaceutical drug discovery and development.

Why do you think teamwork is important in science?

Diverse skills and perspective brought by team members are key to making transformative discoveries and innovations.