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Personal contact Details

Chamber No. C-210

Email: sunilbhand@goa.bits-pilani.ac.in, sgbhand@gmail.com

 

Education

Ph.D.	1996	Chemistry	Holkar Science College (DAVV) Indore
M.Sc.	1990	Physical Chemistry	School of Chemistry, D.A.V.V.  Indore (first position in Merit)
B.Sc.	1988	Phys. Chem. Math.	Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya (D.A.V.V.) Indore

 

Research Experience

Visiting Scientist	June 2016	Acromed Invest AB Lund Sweden
Visiting Scientist	June 2013	FBS,University of Leeds  U.K.
Visiting Scientist	Jul-Aug  2011	Acromed Invest AB, Lund, Sweden
Visiting Scientist	2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2009	Lund University, Sweden
Post-Doctoral Associate	Jan. 2001 - Dec. 2002	Lund University, Sweden
Visiting scientist	1997 - 1999	RRCAT, DAE Indore

 

Teaching Experience

Senior Professor	June 2021- till date	BITS, Pilani-K.K. Birla Goa Campus
Professor	Feb. 2013 -May 2021	BITS, Pilani-K.K. Birla Goa Campus
Associate Professor	June 2010 -  Feb. 2013	BITS, Pilani-K.K. Birla Goa Campus
Asst. Professor	June 2005 - May 2010	BITS, Pilani-K.K. Birla Goa Campus
Lecturer	Dec. 2002 - June 2005	BITS, Pilani-Pilani Campus
Lecturer	Jan 2000 - Dec. 2000	Medi-Caps Institute of Technology & Mgt, Indore

 

Administrative Experience at BITS, Pilani

Dean (Institute wide) Pilani, Goa, Hyderabad and Dubai Sponsored Research & Consultancy	Jun 2014 -May 2022
Associate Dean Sponsored Research & Consulting	Jan 2014 -June 2018
Board of Director (Technical ) BITS BIRAC BioNEST Incubator supported by BIRAC	2017- till date
Head of the Department, Department of Chemistry	2009 - Nov.2013
Group Leader, Chemistry	2006 - 2009
Convener, Departmental Research Committee (DRC)	2010-Jan. 2014
Convener, Additional Competitive Grants for new faculty	2014- 2020
Member of Research Board	2012 -till date
Chairman, Department Level Shortlisting Committee for faculty recruitment	2013 - 2018
Task Force leader -Research and Consultancy (under Vision 2020 Mission 2012) (Consultancy & Marketing)	2009-2012
BITS Goa Innovation Incubation and Entreprenurship Society BGIIES (Vice president)	2020- till date
Member Examination Committee  (Institute level)	2015- till date
Team Leader (Research), Project Lakshya	2018-till date
Project Director-BITS BioCyTiH Foundation, A Technology Innovation Hub under Bio-Cyber Physical Systems funded by NMICPS DST GOI (Sec 8 Company)	March 2021 - 2024
Co-ordinator,  ABG sponsored Industry projects	2011

 

Honors and Awards

• Prof. Sunil Bhand has been presented “Joseph Wang Award 2015”, by Cognizure publishing in recognition of his research excellence in the area of Analytical Chemistry.
• Best research paper award (USD600) from International Society for Trace Element Biogeochemistry ISTEB, at 7th International Conference on Biogeochemistry of Trace Elements Uppsala University Sweden 2003 & Conference scholarship for early career scientists USD1000 at 7th ICOBTE Uppsala Sweden 2003.
• Recipient of Dr. U.V. Rao memorial Young Scientist award in Analytical & Environmental Chemistry, by Indian Chemical Society 1999. 
• Received certificate of appreciation from ICAR, Govt. of India at “National Meet on Technology Innovation in Agriculture” New  Delhi, 2009
• Received certificate of appreciation from American Chemical Society ACS USA as a reviewer for ACS Journals 2012.
• Secured first position in University Merit for M.Sc. Physical Chemistry 1990, DAVV Indore.
• Invited key note speaker “Bio-MEMS” at the 1^st  Indo-German Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, organized by Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Germany & DST India. IIT Madras Nov. 2009.
• Invited expert at South Asia Higher Education Summit “SAHEd” organized by Hollings Centre for International Dialogue (US Dept. of State), Istanbul Turkey March 2019.
• Vice Chancellor’s nominee at the First Indo-French Summit 2018 N Delhi.
• Co-Chairman at International Conference Emerging Technology Micro to Nano 2013.
• Co-Chairman, the 8^th IAEAC sponsored workshop on biosensors at BITS Goa 2007.
• Convener, Indo-Swedish Workshop on Biosensors at BITS Goa 2006.
• Core organizing committee and convener Exhibition committee NMD-ATM 2017.

Expert Appointments

• Project Director, BITS BioCyTiH Foundation (a sec 8 company) 2021-2024
• Expert in Biosensor for Indo-Russian, Bilateral Program (2014-16), Department of Biotechnology, Govt of India N. Delhi India
• Appointed expert by French Embassy N Delhi for Red Biotechnology program.
• Appointed expert (2019 and 2020) by Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF), Switzerland
• Appointed expert by INNOVATE UK, EPSRC for grants proposal evaluation
•  Appointed expert by BIRAC & National Bio-Pharma Mission N Delhi.
• Appointed Expert member Research Advisory Committee CIPHET ICAR, Ludhiana 2020-2023
• Appointed expert by ICAR & The World Bank USA for NAIP proposal evaluation.
• Appointed expert by PATH, India
• Appointed Member IP Committee for Goa State Innovation Council 2019-2021
• Appointed Vice President, BITS Goa Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship Society 2020-2025
• Appointed Technical Director, BITS BIRAC BioNEST a Bio-incubator funded by BIRAC (2017- till date)
• Honorary Founding Secretary (elect), Indian Institute of Metals (IIM) Goa Chapter 2017
•  Past Chairman (elect), Indian Institute of Metals, Goa Chapter 2018-2019
•  Appointed Senior Editor for the journal "Science Advances Today".
• Faculty opponent at the Department of Science and Technology, Linköping University Sweden, Dissertation No. 1376 Sept 02, 2011.
• Appointed member of the editorial board for the journal “Chemical Sensors” 2011.
• Associate Editor (Special Issue, Nanoimmunosensor for the journal Sensors, MDPI 2020.

As expert -faculty selection committee

·        Goa Public Service Commission

·        Goa University

·        BARC Mumbai

• Prof. Bhand is currently leading biosensor group with 06 researchers. He has Published 65 research papers, 5 International Invited Book Chapters and is inventor in 13 patent applications. He had presented 50+ research papers in national and international conferences.

Evaluation of PhD Thesis

Linköping University Sweden, IIT Roorkee, IIT Bombay, University of Mumbai, University of Calcutta, NIT Durgapur, Shivaji University Kolhapur, MGM University Mumbai, Punjabi University Patiala, VIT Vellore.

• Received funding for 17 National and International sponsored projects from CSIR, DRDO, ICAR and The World Bank and the Swedish Research Council, Sweden and Indo-UK (UKIERI-DST as Co-PI), MHRD SPARC, ICMR etc. 
  
  
•  Collaborators: Lund University Sweden, , Linköping University Sweden, University of Perpignan France, University of Leeds UK, CNR Rome, Italy, IIT Delhi, IIT Roorkee, NDRI Karnal, BARC, Mumbai, RRCAT, Indore, CDAC, Kolkata, TRA Jorhat, MGM University Mumbai, CIPHET, ICAR Ludhiana etc.
• Member of International Association of Environmental Analytical Chemistry IAEAC, Switzerland, Member American Association for Advancement of Science AAAS (since 2012-2018), Affiliate Member IUPAC, Life member (i) Biosensor Society of India (ii) Indian Laser association (iii) Indian Institute of Metals (iv) Association of Environmental Analytical Chemistry of India.
  
  
• Participated in international conferences (Edmonton, Canada 1995, Hamburg, Germany 1995, Uppsala, Sweden 2003, Grenoble France 2003, Berlin, Germany 2004, Kusadasi Turkey, 2006, Bristol UK 2009, Glasgow UK 2010, Strasbourg France 2011, Cancun Mexico 2012, Melbourne Australia 2014,Gothenberg Sweden 2016) Rome Italy 2017, Philadelphia USA 2019 and Istanbul Turkey 2019).
  
  
• Reviewer for scientific journals: Biosensors and Bioelectronics (Elsevier). J. Agri Food and Chemistry (ACS, USA), Anal.Chim Acta. (Elsevier), Analytical Methods (RSC), Biochemical Engg. Journal, Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology(Springer), Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry (Springer), IEEE Sensors etc.