Dr. Baljit Singh is a Principal Investigator & Senior Business Development-Research Manager at TU Dublin. He joined TU Dublin in January 2007-08 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. 

ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES: 

• Business development and management.
• Project management and technical leads/reports.
• Grant proposals & funding applications.
• Technology gateway performance management.
• Client networking & customer relationship management.
• Reinforce links with industry and collaborative opportunities.
• Gateway promotional & marketing activities.
• IP management/commercialization and tech-transfer involvements.

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS:

• BSc (KUK, India).
• MSc (Chemistry, Kurukshetra University, India).
• MTech (Advanced Chemical Analysis, IIT-Roorkee, India, 2007).
• PhD (Electrochemical Sensors/Biosensors & Nanomaterials, TU Dublin, 2008-11).
• PostDoc (Electrochemical Sensors/Biosensors development.

ROLES @ TU DUBLIN (IRELAND):

• Principal Investigator & Senior Business-Development-Research 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).

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 & MEMBERSHIPS 

• 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 - 2nd International Electronic Conference on Chemical Sensors & Analytical Chemistry (2023)
• Awarded Editorial Board Membership - Science Publishing Group (USA, 2019).
• Memberships: Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC). American Chemical Society (ACS). The Electrochemical Society (ECS), IEEE, European Fuel Cell Forum (EFCF) and Society of Chemical Industry (SCI).

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: 5 (Ongoing, TU Dublin).
5. Academic Postdoctoral Supervision: (1 Ongoing, TU Dublin).
6. Academic undergraduate/postgraduates: (~20, Group-students).

PUBLICATIONS/PATENTS & REVIEWING

•  >60 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.

FUNDING TRACK-RECORD

 >€5 million (PI/co-PI &  collaborative involvements). Enterprise Ireland (IVs & IPPs, CCFs, CFs), SFI, NI Invest, DPTC/PMTC and direct industry & co-funding. Participant in a consortium across Europe (EU/H2020) for funding and collaborative opportunities.  Key contributions & involvements:

• 2008-2012: ARE Funding (Enterprise Ireland).
• 2013-2017: Technology Gateway Phase 1 (>€1 million).
• 2018-2022: Technology Gateway Phase 2 (>€1 million).
• 2022-2029: Technology Gateway Phase 3 (>€2 million).
• Industry Funding 2012-2025 (Ongoing)

AWARDS/HONOURS HIGHLIGHTS 

• Recognised and introduced as ACS sensors author. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acssensors.9b00444
• ACS Reviewer: ACS Certificate of Recognition (Reviewer), ACS Publications.
• RSC Reviewer Award: Awarded RSC Reviewer Certificate, RSC Publications.
• ACS cover pages: Recent research work selected as ACS Sensors cover-page.
• RSC cover page: Recent collaborative research work selected as 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.
• Enterprise Ireland Innovation Arena 2018: Certificate of achievement - TOXOR Technology (PI/Project Manager), Finalist at Innovation Arena, NPC 2018.
• Best Overall Invention Award (Team), Big-Idea Inventor Competition, DIT Hothouse (Hanna, Moore & Curley, 2013).
• Community Award for valuable contribution, Irish Punjabi Association & Punjabi Radio Ireland, 2022, Dublin, Ireland.
• The Waggle Dance”: How bees use the waggle dance as Google Maps for pollen, RTÉ Brainstorm, May 10, 2019. https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2019/0425/1045676-how-bees-use-the-waggle-dance-as-google-maps-for-pollen/
• Selected 3 times consecutively (PhD) for oral presentation in 61^st (DIT, 2009) 62^nd (Queen's Uni. Belfast, 2010) & 63^rd (UCD) Irish Universities Chemistry Research Colloquia
• Awarded MHRD Fellowship (Govt. India). Qualified GATE-2005, GATE-2003, DRDO SET-2004 competitive exams.

COLLABORATIONS

• Ireland
• India
• USA
• China
• South Korea
• South Africa
• Ukraine
• Egypt
• Tunisia

RESEARCH INTERESTS & EXPERTISE 

• Sensors for human and animal diagnostics, phrama, dairy/agri-food, environmental, water quality/toxicity testing.
• Rapid and portable electrochemical sensors/biosensors.
• Biomarkers detection and point-of-care/biochip devices.
• Design-engineering and prototyping of electrode detection and microfluidic-reagent systems.
• Diagnostic microbiology and immuno-assay/sensor development.
• Materials and Nanomaterials analysis. Carbon materials/functionalization and nanoparticle decoration.
• Chemical formulation and product development &validation
• Analytical and Industry services.