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Bhavana Gupta

Assistant Professor (PD2PI Laureate).

Bhavana Gupta was born in New Delhi, India. After finishing her Master degree in Chemical Sciences she enrolled for doctoral degree. She completed her doctoral degree from Indian Institute of Technology, BHU in the year 2012.  During her PhD she visited Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan through a student cultural exchange programme for seven months. After her PhD she worked as a postdoctoral fellow and also had a chance to take classes for students pursuing their master degree. She was selected for prestigious Bluastein postdoctoral fellowship to work at Ben Gurion University of Negev, Israel and also selected for IdeX postdoctoral to work at Bordeaux University. Her experience is in electrochemistry to study and explore various applications of functional materials such as conducting polymer and metal oxide-based photocatalyst etc.
In Dec. 2020, she joined our group - Nanoelectrochemistry at the IPC under PD2PI project. The primary interest of the research is to understand the mechanism of the hole scavenger photooxidation during photoelectrocatalysis with the help of scanning electrochemical microscope.