Rizia Bardhan
American biomolecular engineer
Rizia Bardhan is an Indian origin American biomolecular engineer who is the Jean H. Steffenson Professor of chemical and biological engineering at Iowa State University. She is an executive editor of ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.
Early life and education
Bardhan was an undergraduate student in chemistry at Westminster College and graduated in 2005. She moved to Rice University for her graduate studies, where she worked under the supervision of Naomi Halas. Bardhan completed her doctoral research at Rice, where she studied nanostructures for plasmonic enhancement. When these nanostructures are excited using light they can enhance the fluorescence signatures of nearby molecules. When molecules were 7 nm from the surface of these nanostructures, it was possible to generate an enhancement of 50 times of the fluorescent signal. After earning her doctorate, Bardhan was appointed a research fellow at the Molecular Foundry.
Research and career
Bardhan joined the faculty at Vanderbilt University in 2012. Her research considered nanomedicine and nanophotonics.
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