Saakshi Dhanekar
Saakshi Dhanekar is working as an INSPIRE Faculty at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi. She works in the area of fabrication to prototype development of gas- and bio-sensors. Few of her recent explorations have been alcohol breath analyser and diabetic ketoacidosis detection using breath analysis. Her other research areas interests include silicon technology, MEMS, nano-materials, thin film transistors etc.
Currently, she has a project funded by Government of India through which she is trying to capture E. coli bacteria using her bio-chips for safe drinking water. She does lot of innovation with materials and micro-fabrication processes to enhance the sensing parameters and simplifying fabrication processes respectively. She has developed technologies for fabricating sensors at a larger scale for mass production. She has published several papers and filed patents.
She works on real problems and thus the solutions provided by her research benefits the society directly.