Short BIO:
Sanju Gupta currently holds the position of Associate Professor of research in the Department of Metrology and Optoelectronics, within the Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunication, and Computer Science (WETI) under Nobelium IDUB Award at Gdańsk University of Technology in Poland. She is a recognized expert in the field of experimental condensed-matter materials physics, encompassing technologically relevant multifunctional advanced electronic materials at nanoscale, two-dimensional van der Waals solids, and mixed dimensional systems. Specifically, the materials of interest are a gamut of carbons (diamond, nanotubes, graphene) and related TMDCs, metal nanoparticles, transition metal oxides and semiconducting oxides. The goal is to take advantage of nanoscale or low-dimensional materials engineered for their new functionalities to realize exciting, untapped potentials for advancing science and applications at the grand challenges of renewable energy sources (electrochemical energy systems), water purification and desalination (RO and CDI technologies), and biochemical sensing. Scientific work: Notably, she specializes in strategic material synthesis using PECVD, electrodeposition, self-assembly and solid-state chemistry approaches, and investigation of chemical-physical properties to establish microscopic structure-property-performance(activity) relationships. Presently, she is focusing on the development of “artificial” synapses based on sp3C/sp2C heterojunction as opto-neuromorphic devices and exploring three-dimensional porous laser-induced graphene (LIG) combined with other materials for energy and sensing.
In the realm of scientific research, she played a vital role in funded projects and raised more than 1.3 million USD (NSF, NASA, NIH, DoE, AFOSR, and KY Science and Engineering Foundation). Her academic contributions to date include >170 peer-reviewed scientific publications, mostly first author and corresponding author, >75 invited talks and colloquia/seminars, >300 conference presentations worldwide, 2 patents, 2 book chapters, and 1 book edited in Springer-Verlag. She has organized several conferences/symposia (in the USA and Canada), served on various granting agencies (USA and Europe) as panelist, journal editorial board, MRS publications committee, conference/workshop chair, reviewer for over twenty-five journals, and currently serving as Guest Editor with Scientific Reports for special Graphene Collections. Her work was recognized and featured on two covers namely, AIP journal (e.g., Journal of Applied Physics, 2023) and NIST-NCNR (e.g., NCNR Bull. 20012). In recognition of her contributions in materials physics and applications, she has been recipient of NSF, NIH, DoE, EPSRC, JSPS, JN Tata and Commonwealth Scholar fellowships, faculty research creativity award, national level faculty mentor award toward STEM education (Physics Division) and KY State level 2D materials research and innovations award.
She is also a visiting research professor in the department of physics and was a research professor in the department of materials science and engineering at the Pennsylvania State University (USA), where she worked on various projects namely, amorphous/crystalline oxides forming two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) and their transport properties, ferroelectric thin films for microelectronics thermal management and semiconducting zinc oxides (ZnO) for UV and methane gas sensing. Gupta has also developed insights into the role of topology and geometry in materials science and how they affect physical-chemical properties resulting in co-editing a book (Springer-Verlag, 2018). She has a deep professional and personal experience in research and mentoring in higher education for almost two decades, while holding faculty position as an associate professor of physics (w/materials science focus) at Western Kentucky University, University of Central Florida (USA), University of Missouri, and other organizations in the USA.
Education and Research Experience:
B.S. (Honors) Physics (Delhi University, India),
M.S. Physics (IIT Delhi, India),
M. Tech. Laser Technology (IIT Kanpur, India),
Ph.D. Chemical Physics (w/Solid-State Physics specialization) (UPR-RP, USA) focusing on the HFCVD and MWCVD synthesized diamond thin films with sulfur and nitrogen doping for vacuum microelectronics and optical applications. During her postdoc at Cambridge University (UK), North Carolina State University (USA), and University of Pennsylvania (USA), she worked on in-situ Raman spectro-electrochemistry probing charge transfer dynamics of carbon nanotubes actuators, synthesis and field emission imaging of carbon nanotubes (single/double/ multiwalled), and protein structure, function, and conformational states under applied transmembrane potential using X-ray and neutron scattering at solid/liquid interface, respectively. Since then, she continued to work on a range of frontier carbons, layered graphene, aerogels, and TMDC (MoS2) encompassing fundamental science and diverse technologies.
Professional Experience Abroad:
11/01/2020 - 07/15/2021: Adjunct Faculty/Teaching Faculty and Visiting Research Scholar, Department of Physics and NanoScience Technology Center, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL (USA)
01/15/2012 - 07/31/2013: Adjunct Faculty/Teaching Faculty, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA (USA)
12/15/2008 - 10/15/2009: Italian Research Fellowship, Department of Physics, Polytechnic di Torino, Turin, Italy
12/15/2007 - 01/15/2008: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) short-term fellowship, National Institute of Materials Science (NIMS), Tsukuba, Japan
08/15/2006 - 09/15/2006: Visiting Research Fellowship, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai, India
08/15/2004 - 07/31/2006: Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Missouri State University, Springfield, MO (USA)
08/15/2002 - 12/15/2003: EPSRC Research Fellowship, Cambridge University, England (UK)
Bibliographical data in Scopus and Google Scholar (dated 20.11.2023):
- publications: 175
- presentations: 350
- citations: 2 863
- h index: 31
- Book (Springer Series in Solid State Sciences): 26,000 (downloads)
ORCID number: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8518-5563