Electrochemical Sensors and Biosensors for Food Safety

Dr. J. Tharini is currently serving as a Visiting Research Associate in the Department of Biotechnology (DDE), Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, India. Her areas of research interest include adsorption, chemical kinetics, nanoscience, and electrochemistry. Professor Sabu Thomas is currently an Emeritus Professor of Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, India. He was the former Vice Chancellor of Mahatma Gandhi University. He is a Senior Professor of Christ University, Bangalore, India. He is also a visiting Professor at the Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa, Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, and an Adjunct Faculty in the Department of Polymer and Process Engineering, IIT Roorkee, India. He is the Chairman of the TrEST Research Park, Trivandrum, Kerala, India. The H index of Professor Thomas is 163 and he has more than 133,000 citations

• 1. Fundamentals of Electrochemical Sensors and Biosensors and Their Integration with Artificial Intelligence Tools for Food Analysis2. Electrochemical detection techniques3. Synthesis of nanocomposites4. Computational methods: DFT, MD, multiscale modeling, kinetic simulations5. Fabrication of Flexible Electrodes and Microfluidics with Al integration for Food Analysis6. Metal Nanoparticles/Metal Oxides and Nanocomposite-Based Electrochemical Sensors for Food Analysis7. Conducting Polymers and Nanocomposite-Based Electrochemical Sensors for Food Analysis8. Carbon-Based Nanomaterials and Their Composites for Electrochemical Sensing in Food Analysis9. Emerging Molecular Receptors for Electrochemical Food Analysis10. Electrochemical Sensing of Pesticides11. Electrochemical Sensing of Heavy Metals12. Electrochemical Sensing of Veterinary Drugs13. Electrochemical Sensing of Food Additives14. Electrochemical Sensing of Microbial Pathogens15. Regulatory frameworks and industry standards for electrochemical food sensors16. Smartphone-readout and IoT integration for food analysis17. Theoretical Modeling of Electrochemical Sensors for Detecting Biological Toxins, Heavy metal18. Reuse and Recycling of Sensors and Biosensors19. Life Cycle Assessment of Sensors and Biosensors