Faculty Details

Dr. Alok Pandya

Assistant Professor

Department

Department of Biotechnology and Bioengineering

Contact Info

Work Experience

  • 8 Years in Teaching & 5 Years in Research (Post PhD)
  • Additional Responsibilities: Coordinator, Industry-Academic Relation Cell Member, Startup Cell Coordinator, Training & Placement Cell

  • Ph.D.: Nano-Chemistry (Gujarat University, 2013)
  • Post Graduation: Organic Chemistry (Sardar Patel University, 2008)
  • Graduation: Chemistry (NVPAS, Sardar Patel University, 2006)

  • Nanobiotechnology
    • Development of rapid and low-cost paper-based devices for diagnostics and environmental contaminants.
    • Design and development of In Vitro and In Vivo disease diagnostics/monitoring device.
    • Novel nanoconjugates for improved therapeutic effects in cancer.
  • Nanochemistry
    • Supramolecular nano-assemblies based new detection strategy for chemo sensing applications.
    • Microwave-assisted bio-inspired nano-catalyst and its industrial application.
    • Smart nanotechnologies in agriculture and food.
  • Forensic Nanotechnology
    • Paper-based nanosensor for forensic analysis at trace level.
    • Document preservation using nanomaterials.
    • Fingerprint enhancement using nanomaterials.

  1. Pinkesh G Sutariya, Heni Soni, Sahaj A Gandhi, Alok Pandya, Single-step fluorescence recognition of As 3+, Nd 3+ and Br−using pyrene-linked calix[4]arene: application to real samples, computational modelling and paper-based device, New Journal of Chemistry, 2019, 43, 737-747
  2. Pinkesh G Sutariya, Heni Soni, Sahaj A Gandhi, Alok Pandya, Novel luminescent paper-based calix [4] arene chelation enhanced fluorescence-photoinduced electron transfer probe for Mn 2+, Cr 3+ and F-, Journal of Luminescence, 2019, 208, 6-17
  3. Krupa Kansara, Pal Patel, Ritesh K Shukla, Alok Pandya, Rishi Shanker, Ashutosh Kumar and Alok Dhawan, Synthesis of biocompatible iron oxide nanoparticles as a drug delivery vehicle, International Journal of Nanomedicine. 2018, 13, 79-82.
  4. Alok Pandya, Harsh Dave, Neha Bhandari, Bhavya Mod, Ritesh Shukla, Multifunctional silver cellulose nanocomposite as a promising plasmonic sensing platform, Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, 2018, 18, 8, 5461-5469.
  5. Niha Ansari, Anand Lodha, Alok Pandya, Shobhana Menon, Determination of cause of death using paper-based microfluidic device as a colorimetric probe, Anal. Methods, 2017,9, 5632-5639(IP:1.9).

  • Convenor of “Eureka-2018-Annual Science Conclave” organized on 27th-28th Feb, 2018 at IAR.
  • Convenor of "A Day with Scientists" program for school students at IAR and organized with 6 schools.
  • Convenor of “High School Nanoscience Program” is organized for 12th standards students organized on 11th November, 2017 at IAR.
  • Reviewer of Journal of Materials Chemistry- B, Analyst , New journal of Chemistry and RSC Advances, Science of Total Environment,  MICS Journals, Analytica Chimica Acta
  • Member of American Journal of Nano Research, Science Publishing Group
  • Member of Chemical and Molecular Engineering, World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology
  • Program Committee Member of T-NANO,2014 (International Conference of Translational Nanomedicine,2014) organized by institute of Life Sciences , Ahmedabad University
  • High School Nanoscience Program” is organized for 12th standards students organized from 15-30 Dec,2018 at IAR
  • “Industrial expert lecture series” is organized with Industrial expert organized on 31 st August, 2018 and 16 th October at IAR
  • Convenor of “Eureka-2019-Annual Science and Startup Conclave” organized on 11th-12th Jan, 2019 at IAR.

  1. Book: Alok Pandya, Pinkesh Sutariya and Keyur Bhatt, Nanomaterials to Nanoassemblies and their application, Lambert Academic Publishing, Germany (ISBN-13: 978-363966603), 2014
  2. Book Chapter: Alok Pandya, Heena Goswami, Anand Lodha and Pinkesh Sutariya, Supramolecular Nanoassembly and it’s potential, Book Name: Advance Functional Materials, WILEY-Scrivener Publisher, USA, DOI:10.1002/9781118998977.ch8, 2015
  3. Book Chapter: Alok Pandya and Madhuri Bollapalli, Nanodevices for Early Diagnosis of Cardiovascular Disease: Advances, Challenges, and Way Ahead, CRC Press, ISBN-13: 978-1498721424,2018.

  • Organic Chemistry (UG)
  • Chemical safety and intellectual properties rights (PG)
  • Analytical chemistry I & II (UG&PG)
  • Nanobiotechnology (PG)
  • Spectroscopy (PG)
  • Nanobiosensor (Interdisciplinary Research) (PhD)

  1. Google Scholar

Any students seeking to research work in the area of nanobiotechnology or Nanochemistry or forensic nanotechnology, please kindly write your interest at alok.pandya@iar.ac.in.