Prof. Swati Sharma

Dr. Swati Sharma is currently an Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Mandi, India. Prior to this, she worked as a scientist at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and the University of Freiburg, Germany. She obtained her M.S./ Ph.D. from the University of California, Irvine, USA in 2013 in the field of carbon-based miniaturized sensors. She completed her Bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India, and worked a research scientist at the Ranbaxy Research Laboratories. Her primary research area is carbon-based devices, including biosensors, flexible electronics and bioelectronic medicine. She has expanded her research to industrial carbon manufacturing and obtaining high-value device friendly carbon materials from the urban solid waste. Her research work has been published in various peer-reviewed journals and books. She currently teaches various materials, manufacturing and energy systems related courses at IIT Mandi.
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