Dr Ruchi Gupta

Dr Ruchi Gupta BEng, MASc, PhD, MRSC, FRSC, FHEA

School of Chemistry
Associate Professor of Analytical Science
Global Engagement Lead for the School of Chemistry

Contact details

Telephone: +44 (0) 121 414 6119
Email: r.gupta.3@bham.ac.uk
Twitter

Address: School of Chemistry
黑料吃瓜网
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT

Dr Ruchi Gupta is an Associate Professor at the 黑料吃瓜网 since 2017. Dr Gupta is Global Engagement and International Recruitment Leads for School of Chemistry.

Dr Ruchi Gupta’s research is in study of analytical tools/techniques, and spans from fundamental science through engineering to translational activities. Research in her group is divided into three themes (1) optical bio/chemical sensors, (2) sample preparation, and (3) fluid manipulation.

Dr Gupta is a recipient of RSC’s 2021 Joseph Black Award. She has received major grants and fellowships from Research Councils UK, Royal Society of Chemistry, Royal Academy of Engineering, and industry. Dr Gupta is an appointed member of RSC’s Analytical Division Council, elected member of IOP’s Instrument Science and Technology Group, permanent steering committee member of the Europtrode conferences, and Associate Editor of an open-access journal, RSC Advances.

Ruchi Gupta Group web page

Qualifications

PhD in Instrumentation and Analytical Science, , UK, 2011
MASc in Engineering Physics, , Canada, 2007
BEng in Electronics and Electrical Engineering, , Singapore, 2005

Biography

Dr Gupta attended Nanyang Technological University, Singapore for her undergraduate studies on a prestigious SIA-NOL scholarship and subsequently received an IEEE Reliability/CPMT/ED Chapter (Singapore) book prize. She completed her MASc at McMaster University (Canada) where she developed the basic components of generic and programmable microfluidics. This project bridged chemical, biological and computational sciences, and resulted in the award of first runner-up of the Brian L. Barge Award of Excellence in Microsystems Integration. Her MASc thesis won Radisav Stevanoic Book prize.

Her PhD at the University of Manchester (UK) was funded by Syngenta and focused on developing electroseparation methods for sample preparation and analysis of self-digesting bagasse reliably to produce biofuels from waste (rather than food crops). Her PhD research received cash prizes from the RSC including the Electroseparations Group, and the Science Foundation Ireland (SFI).

Dr Gupta’s research as a Postdoctoral Research Associate and later as a Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) Enterprise Fellow developed hydrogel-based optical waveguide sensors, studied mechanisms of light propagation in hydrogels, as well as investigated their applications.

She was a Lecturer in Analytical Chemistry at University of Hull between 2014 and 2016 before joining 黑料吃瓜网 in 2017.

Other activities

Grants and Fellowships

Leverhulme Trust Research Grant, 2021
EPSRC GCRF PhD studentship, 2018
EPSRC NPIF PhD studentship, 2017
BRIDGE Seed Fund, 2017
EPSRC Healthcare Technologies Challenge Fellowship, 2016
RSC Tom West Fellowship, 2016
Royal Academy of Engineering Enterprise Fellowship, 2013
Mini Proof-of-Principle Fund, 2013
Investigating in Success Funfd, 2012

Awards and prizes

RSC J, 2021
Featured in Women in Optics calendar, SPIE, 2021
Annual Review Award, 黑料吃瓜网, 2017
Staff Excellence Award, University of Hull, 2016
Virgin MEdia Pioneer Award, Virgin Media, 2010
BioPharm 2020: Bio Business Plan Competition (Runner up), 2010
EMERGE – Social Innovation Ideas Competition (Winner), 2010
Young Researcher Travel Award, Science Foundation Ireland, 2009
Electroseparations Award, Royal Society of Chemistry, 2009
Radisav Stevanic Book Award, McMaster University, Canada, 2007
Brian L. Barge Award of Excellence in Microsystems Integration, CMC Microsystems, (Runner up), 2007
Reliability/CPMT/ED Chaper Book Award, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2005

Committee memberships/ leads

2021 to Present: School of Chemistry’s Global Engagement Lead
2020 to Present: School of Chemistry’s International Recruitment Lead
2018 to Present: Member of School of Chemistry’s Health and Safety Committee
2022 to 2024: Committee Member of RSC Analytical Division Prizes
2020 to Present: Member of IUPAC’s Analytical Division Project ()
2020 to 2024: Elected Member,
2020 to 2023: Appointed Member of
2016 to Present: Member, of biennial Europtrode conference
2013 to 2014: Member of 50 Under 30 Initiative by Council for Industry and Higher Education (CIHE)

Organisation of scientific meetings

2021: Organiser and chair,
2018: Organiser, IUPAC International Women’s Day Conference
2018: Organising Committee, 14th European Biological Inorganic Chemistry Conference
2017: Chair, Recently Appointed Academics in Physical Chemistry Meeting

Reviewing activities

2021: Guest Editor, Gels (special issue on )
2020: Associate Editor, RSC Advances
2020: Scientific Evaluation, Daphne Jackson Trust
2020: Scientific Evaluation, Scleroderma & Raynauds
2018: EPSRC UKRI Innovation Fellowship Interview Panel
2×2017, 2016: Panel Member of EPSRC Prioritization Meetings
2016 – Present: Review panel member, Research Councils

Publications

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Selected publications

R. Gupta, N.J. Goddard, A Study of Diffraction-based Chitosan Leaky Waveguide (LW) Biosensors, Analyst, 2021, 20, 4964, .
N.J. Goddard, R. Gupta, 3D Printed Analytical Platform for Automation of Fluid Manipulation Applied to Leaky Waveguide Biosensors, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 2021, 70, 7502612, .
A.K. Pal, N.J. Goddard, H.J. Dixon, R. Gupta, A Self-Referenced Diffraction-based Optical Leaky Waveguide Biosensor Using Photofunctionalisable Hydrogels, Biosensors, 2020, 134. . This work was focused on the cover page of the journal.
R. Gupta, N.J. Goddard, Leaky Waveguides (LWs) for Chemical and Biological Sensing − A Review and Future Perspective, Sensors and Actuators B, 2020, 128628. .
R. Gupta, E. Labella, N.J. Goddard, An Optofluidic Young Interferometer Sensor for Real-Time Imaging of Refractive Index in µTAS Applications, Sensors and Actuators B, 2020, 128491. .
A.K. Pal, N.J. Goddard, R. Gupta, Aqueous Photochemistry for the Fabrication of Grating Sensors in Hydrogels, Photosensitive Materials and their Applications, 2020, 1136702. .
S.R. Makhsin, N.J. Goddard, R. Gupta, P. Gardner, P. Scully, Optimisation Synthesis and Biosensing Performance of an Acrylate-based Hydrogel as an Optical Waveguiding Sensing Film, Analytical Chemistry, 2020, in press. .
R. Gupta, N.A. Alamrani, G.M. Greenway, N. Pamme, N.J. Goddard, Biosensor for Determining Average Iron Content of Ferritin by Measuring its Optical Dispersion, Microfluidics, BioMEMS, and Medical Microsystems XVIII, 2020, 112350. .
N.J. Goddard, R. Gupta, A Novel Manifestation at Optical Leaky Waveguide Modes for Sensing Applications, Sensors and Actuators B, 2020, 127776. .
N.J. Goddard, H. Dixon, N. Toole, R. Gupta, 3D Printed Instrumentation for Point-of-Use Leaky Waveguide (LW) Biochemical Sensor, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 2020, 6390. .
N.J. Goddard, R. Gupta, Speed and Sensitivity – Integration of Electrokinetic Preconcentration with a Leaky Waveguide Biosensor, Sensors and Actuators B, 2019, 301, 127063. .
N.A. Alamrani, G.M. Greenway, N. Pamme, N.J. Goddard, R. Gupta, A Feasibility Study of a Leaky Waveguide Aptasensor for Thrombin, Analyst, 2019, 144, 6048. .
R. Gupta, N.A. Alamrani, G.M. Greenway, N. Pamme, N.J. Goddard, Method for Determining Average Iron Content of Ferritin by Measuring its Optical Dispersion, Analytical Chemistry, 2019, 91, 7366. .
A.K. Pal, E. Labella, N.J. Goddard, R. Gupta, Photofunctionalizable Hydrogel for Fabricating Volume Optical Diffractive Sensors, Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics, 2019, 220, 1900228. . This work was focused on the cover page of the journal.