dr. N. Awasthi (Neha)

As a Funded Programme Manager (One Planet Research Center)/Project leader (IMM), I aim to combine disruptive new biosensor technologies from various domains of natural sciences with latest chip and digital technologies for real life applications. I work with Precision Health & Nutrition and Food & Environmental Sensing programs at One Planet. Together, our team works on sensors to monitor gut health, developing new bio-sensors to understand complexity of microbiome and building the associated data infrastructure and modeling tools.

I completed my Ph.D. at Duke University, Durham NC, USA in the field of Computational Materials Physics in collaboration with Honda Research Inc., USA, investigating phase diagrams of transition metal catalyst nanoparticles for the growth of high purity single walled carbon nanotubes. Following this, I won the Dorothea Schlözer Research Fellowship at the Georg-August-University at Göttingen, Germany for postdoctoral research in theoretical biophysics where I applied multi-scale simulation methods to investigate pore formation in lipid membranes to model the action of membrane-active peptides for drug delivery.

I have been a team member of the FNWI Interdisciplinary Research Platform (IRP) at Radboud University, NL, and project manager for two consortium projects in Artificial Intelligence, Green IT and Sustainability; a) EU project AI-Regio and b) Topsector Energy project Engineering Business Intelligence.