Design Project Facilitator:• Lead a team of students during the semester.• Weekly progress meetings with students - Regularly observe their progress and provide constructive feedback.• Fortnightly meetings with the project partner.• Marking and lab book checking.

Design and develop optical systems and apparatusLow-cost screening test for coronary artery diseaseLow-cost screening test for diabetes and hypertension.

My Ph.D. is basically focused on using an imaging technique called optical coherence tomography (OCT) to non-invasively image the retina (back of the eye) to investigate the presence of any abnormalities. I use an extension of OCT called polarisation sensitive OCT which essentially adds another dimension to OCT images. Using PS-OCT, it is possible to quantitatively measure birefringence- an optical property that is associated with the structure or organization of the tissue. Birefringence changes in the retinal blood vessel walls can be monitored and imaged as a biomarker in different diseases. Since the retina works as a window to the heart and brain (it has similar vasculature and nerve system) and can be imaged readily and non-invasively, it can be used to assess any disorders especially those related to the heart and brain. In particular, cardiovascular diseases affect the blood vessel walls and have an impact on the integrity of blood vessels and capillaries in the retina. And because blood vessel walls consist of organized fibrous tissue, they have intrinsic polarisation dependant optical properties – e.g. birefringence. As cardiovascular disease disrupts the organization and structure of the fibrous tissue, hence altering birefringence, assessment of this change has the potential to diagnose cardiovascular disorders at the very early stages. So, in short, my Ph.D. topic is about differentiating healthy blood vessels of the retina from diseased ones through non-invasive and quick PS-OCT images.

I worked on Ratiometric Biosensors alongside with a focus on Photodynamic therapy

My main research was on the interaction of Cardiovascular Medicine with BSA and HSA