Venkata Suresh Vajrala, Phd Email & Phone Number

Leuven, Flanders, BE

Leuven, Flemish Region, Belgium

Leuven, Flemish Region, Belgium

• Coordinate with cross-functional teams and drive the silicon technology development activities, including chip designing, microfabrication process development & optimizations, and life-time testing within buffer.
• Spearhead the development and testing of on-chip cellular biomass sensor for bioprocess monitoring (Ideation phase- to -Successfully testing the integrated sensor in cell cultures).
• Collaborate and communicate with interdisciplinary team leads (electronics design, systems integration, device packaging and biocompatibility) to develop a working prototype for simultaneous monitoring of multiple.

Toulouse, Occitanie, France

• In charge of implementing 2D/3D soft neural electrode design solutions, planning clean room based process developments, and executing experiments involving microfabrication, surface coatings, opto-electrochemical.
• Successfully microfabricated 2 novel designs of flexible multi-electrode arrays for in vitro and in vivo neural surface interfacing applications (1 patent-pending, 2 articles-published and 3 articles-under preparation)
• Established SOPs/ protocols for _Robust and stable 3D structured electrode surface coatings of organic polymer composites (PEDOT: PSS; PEDOT: Carbon Nanofibers; PEDOT: IrOx & PEDOT: Graphene Oxide) on metallic.
• Conducted an electrochemical characterization study on different commercial DBS electrode arrays (DIXI Medical, France) and evaluated the effect of physiological frequencies on the long term Impedance stability and.
• Successfully installed Fast Scan Cyclic Voltammetry (FSCV) platform in the lab and developing protocols for sensing neurotransmitters using flexible electrode array devices coated with different polymer electrode.
• Spearheaded several collaborative projects with Start-ups, neuroscientists, chemists and microelectronic engineers (1 co-authored article- under review and 1 co-authored articles-under preparation)

Leuven

• Created and validated antibody based label and label-free detection techniques to detect virus-like particles or cancer specific extra cellular vesicles from complex bio-matrices using plasmonic optical fiber sensors.
• Developed a sensitive colorimetric ELISA method for the detection of tumor-derived extracellular vesicles using microbead technology
• Initiated these above two topics in our lab, and instrumental in collaboration with 5 academic labs and 1 spin-off company (FOx Biosystems)
• Successfully guided several graduate and undergraduate students for their research project completion
• Actively involved in organizing annual team building eventsAchievements/ Awards:
• Award for the best exploitation plan at "Exploitation of Research - Technology & Knowledge transfer", KU Leuven, 2017

Bordeaux Area, France

• Established optical and electrochemical detection methods for single organelle analyses using Optical fibers, PDMS and Silicon technology based microfluidic microwell arrays (5 research articles)
• Established a technique for remote monitoring of cellular oxidative stress under the effect of electromagnetic fields (1 research report to EU FP7)
• Designed and constructed an in-house electrochemical cell for recording in situ fluorescence microscopy images under electrochemical control (1 research article)
• Additional responsibilities included training masters students and, organizing informal group seminars to encourage colleagues to share their scientific knowledge and ideas with one another Achievements/ Awards:
• Award for the best oral/ poster prizes: @Journée Scientifique de l’ISM, Bordeaux, 2015 @ XII Conference on Optical Chemical Sensors and Biosensors, Greece 2014; @Journée Scientifique de l’ISM, Bordeaux, 2013 @IECB.
• Selected for “SCF Aquitaine- best thesis contest 2013", Bordeaux2013 (finalist)

Grenoble Area, France

Internship 1: worked on the field effect transistor based gas sensor for the detection of organophosphorus compounds. Internship 2: Studied the photochromic and redox properties of bis-terpyridine ruthenium complexes based on dimethyldihydropyrene units as bridging ligands.

Hyderabad Area, India

- 12 months of experience in organic synthesis.- Versed with analytical instrumentation and have expertise in characterizing organic molecules using spectroscopy

Master'S Degree, Nanoscience And Nanotechnology

This is an interdisciplinary program, which provided me a strong background in engineering and characterization of (bio)molecular.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Biophysical Chemistry/ Bioengineering

Development of opto-electrochemical microwell array platforms for high-throughput monitoring of single mitochondria and their metabolic.