Amit Asthana's Biography

Amit Asthana, Principal Scientist, Centre for Cellular And Molecular Biology

Currently, Dr. Amit Asthana is working as Scientist and Ramalingaswami Fellow at Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CSIR-CCMB), Hyderabad, India. He obtained his PhD in Chemistry from Barkatullah University, India, while working at Advanced Materials and Processes Research Institute (CSIR-AMPRI).

Dr. Asthana has more than 13 years of post-doctoral experience in the field of lithography techniques, microfluidics device designing, fabrication and characterization, hot embossing, cleanroom operations and paper-microfluidic. He has worked at Institutes and Universities of International fame such as University of Amsterdam, The Netherland, Institute Curie, France, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, Chungnam National University, South Korea and University of Queensland, Australia.

He is the recipient of many fellowships including S.R.F.(C.S.I.R., India), Curie Fellowship (France), & Brainpool Fellowship (Korea) and Ramalingaswami Fellowship (India). Dr. Asthana has number of publications in journals of international repute and international conferences. His research interests includes the application of micro/nanofabrication, micro/nanofluidics , Digital microfluidics a wide range of microfluidic tools for biological studies including diagnostic using paper microfluidics apart from non-conventional ways of fabricating microfluidics devices.