RESEARCH SCHOLARS

Sonia received her Master’s in General Chemistry from St. Aloysius College, Mangalore and joined the NMRL group as a DBT sponsored grant JRF. During her Masters project on “Advanced Oxidation method using Fenton’s reagent for the reduction of pesticide and COD from the effluent water”. She carried out an effective treatment for the removal of DDT and Dicofol from waste water samples. She participated international conference on “Green chemistry and Nanotechnology opportunities and challenges “organized by St. Aloysius College, Mangalore and also participated several National seminars during her postgraduate studies at St. Aloysius College, Mangalore. At Yenepoya University, she is interested in studying the fabrication of dual mode paper-analytical-device for point of care diagnostics.

Experience

Junior Research Fellow (October 3^rd 2017 to till date) at Yenepoya Research Centre, Yenepoya deemed to be University.

Awards/Honors

• Won best poster award for the topic entitled  “Design and fabrication of dual-mode paper-analytical devices for the point of care diagnosis” in National Conference on Innovations in Chemical Sciences (NCICS) at Department of Science and Technology Government of Karnataka, Bengaluru & Department of studies in Chemistry University of Mysore, India on 30^th to 31^st January 2020 
• Received Best poster award for topic entitle “Fabrication of electrochemical paper analytical devices (ePAD) for selective determination of Dopamine” in International conference on chemistry and Physics of materials from 19^th -21^st December 2018 at St. Thomas College, Thrissur, Kerala.