Dr. Baljit SINGH

Biography

Dr. Baljit Singh is a Principal Investigator, Senior Business Development & Research Manager at TU Dublin. He joined TU Dublin in January 2008 and since then he is contributing to the applied research, teaching, business development/management, and IP commercialization activities. Dr. Singh contributed immensely to the establishment and stability of Enterprise Ireland Technology Gateway ‘MiCRA Biodiagnostics’ at TU Dublin and worked with a range of start-ups, SMEs, and multinational companies. He delivered several industry collaborative research projects and a key contributor to the innovation technologies developed at MiCRA.


ROLES @ TU DUBLIN (IRELAND):

 Principal Investigator, Senior Business-Development & Project Manager
 Principal Investigator, Business-Development & Project Manager
 Principal Investigator
 Lecturer (Advanced Analytical Techniques & Electrochemistry)
 Associate Lecturer (Chemistry)
 Senior Postdoctoral Research-Fellow (Enterprise Ireland Commercialisation Fund).
 Postdoc (Industry- Enterprise Ireland Supported Projects).


PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR @ RESEARCH CENTRES & RESEARCH HUBS (TU DUBLIN):

 MiCRA Biodiagnostics Technology Gateway
 Food Science & Environmental Health
 Nanolab Research Centre
 Sustainable Food Packaging and Bioproducts Research (SPBR)
 School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

 Health, Engineering & Materials Science (HEMS) Research Hub
 Physical to Life Sciences Research Hub


ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS:

 B.Sc (KUK, India).
 M.Sc (Chemistry, Kurukshetra University, India).
 M.Tech (Advanced Chemical Analysis, IIT-Roorkee, India, 2007).
 PhD (Electrochemical Sensors/Biosensors & Nanomaterials, TU Dublin, 2008-11).
 PostDoc (Electrochemical Sensors/Biosensors development.


PREVIOUS ROLES (INDIA):

 Lecturer (Chemistry) - D.A.V. College Pehowa (KUK), India.
 Research Project - Ranbaxy Research Laboratories Limited (R&D), Gurgaon, Haryana, India
 Research Project - IIT-Roorkee, India


EDITOR/EDITORIAL ROLES:

 Editorial Board Member: Scientific Reports (Nature Portfolio)
 Editorial Board Member: Bacteria (MDPI)
 Guest Editor: Bioelectrochemistry (ELSEVIER)
 Guest Editor: Biosensors(MDPI)
 Guest Editor: Chemosensors (MDPI)
 Associate Editor for Nanomaterials (Frontiers in Nanotechnology)
 E-Conference Scientific-Committee-Member - Chemical Sensors & Analytical Chemistry 2023


RESEARCH-SUPERVISION & PROJECT-MANAGEMENT:

1. Industry-related projects (~50, PI/Co-PI).
2. Postdoctoral Supervision: 6 (PI/Co-PI, Industry-collaborative-projects).
3. Research Assistants: >10 Industry-collaborative-projects.

4. Academic PhDs Supervision: 4 (Ongoing, TU Dublin).
5. Academic Postdoctoral Supervision: (Ongoing, TU Dublin).
6. Academic undergraduate/postgraduates: (~20, Group-students).


PUBLICATIONS/PATENTS & REVIEWING:

 >50 high-impact peer-reviewed publications.
 Patents: 3 (Electrochemical sensors & fluidic-diagnostic systems)
 Licences-contribution: 5
 Invention/IP-Disclosure-Form (IDFs): >10.
 Book-chapter: 1 (ELSEVIER)
 Thesis Examiner: 1 Reviewed (UNISA, South Africa).
 Reviewed number of articles for RSC/ACS/Elsevier/Springer/Wiley journals.
 Reviewed scientific proposals.
 International Reference/Expert: Water Research Commission, South Africa.


KEY RESEARCH INTERESTS & EXPERTISE:

 Rapid and portable electrochemical sensors/biosensors development for human and animal diagnostics, dairy/agri-food, environmental, water quality/toxicity testing.
 Biomarkers detection and point-of-care/biochip devices.
 Design-engineering and prototyping of electrode detection & microfluidic-reagent systems.
 Diagnostic microbiology and immuno-assay/sensor development.
 Nanomaterials.
 Chemical formulation & product development.


HONORS & AWARDS

 Awarded Editorial Board Membership-Science Publishing Group (USA) and ACS, RSC, ECS, IEEE, SCI memberships.
 Recognised and introduced as ACS sensors author. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acssensors.9b00444
 ACS: ACS Certificate of Recognition (Reviewer), ACS Publications.
 RSC : Awarded RSC Reviewer Certificate, RSC Publications.
 ACS: Recent research work selected as ACS Sensors cover-page.
 RSC: Collaborative research work - RSC Analytical Methods cover page.
 Enterprise Ireland Innovation Arena: Project Lead Scientist - BOVALERT platform technology, wins animal health award in start-up category at the Innovation Arena, National Ploughing Championship 2014. Newsletters - Irish Farmers Journal &InBUSINESS magazine.
 Certificate of achievement - TOXOR Technology (PI/Project Manager), Finalist at Enterprise Ireland Innovation Arena, NPC 2018.
 Best Overall Invention Award (Team), Big-Idea Inventor Competition, DIT Hothouse (Hanna, Moore & Curley, 2013).
 Community Special Guest & Honour Award (2022 & 2023), Irish Punjabi Association & Punjabi Radio Ireland, Dublin, Ireland.


COLLABORATIONS:

 Ireland
 India
 Egypt
 South Africa
 China
 Tunisia
 Ukraine