Sankalp Verma, Ph.D.

Sankalp Verma, Ph.D.

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  • About me

    CSPO® | Applied Materials | IIT Kanpur | VIT Vellore

  • Education

    • Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

      2012 - 2018
      Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Materials Science and Engineering

      Activities and Societies: Voluntary teacher for underprivileged children at Siksha Sopan, Student Representative in Departmental Post Graduate Committee, Coordinated & anchored NK Batra quiz'13 Materials Advantage Worked on developing single step, versatile approaches for micro patterning of proteins using photolithography and developing a photolithography compatible, transparent, biodegradable, flexible substrate for transient electronics.

    • Vellore Institute of Technology

      2008 - 2012
      Bachelor's Degree Biotechnology

      Activities and Societies: Energy and Environment Protection Club Was awarded academic excellence awards for being among the top 2% students in the department, during 4 years of my bachelors.Worked on an independent project to extract and purify collagen, an extra cellular matrix protein, from rat tail and fish skin.

  • Experience

    • Hindustan Bio-energies Pvt Ltd

      Jun 2010 - Jun 2010
      Summer Intern

      Commercial production of Bio-fertilizers and Bio-pesticides. Was involved with culturing, harvesting and characterization of microorganisms.

    • Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research

      May 2011 - Jul 2011
      Summer Research Fellow at Indian Academy of Sciences

      Worked at gene expression analysis in mammalian cell lines. Worked with tools like Western blotting, FACS, RT-PCR and protein isolation. Extensively used chromatography (ion exchange and size exclusion) for protein purification.

    • Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

      May 2014 - Aug 2015

      Worked as a link between department PG community and the administration. My role as the vice president of the Kanpur chapter of Materials Advantage society was to conduct various technical events to create awareness among the student community regarding advancement of materials science and engineering.

      • Student Representative in Departmental Post-Graduate Committee

        Sept 2014 - Aug 2015
      • Vice-President, Materials Advantage (Kanpur Chapter)

        May 2014 - Apr 2015
    • Achira Labs Pvt. Ltd.

      Feb 2018 - Feb 2019
      Senior Scientist

      ▪ Design and development of microfluidic cartridges using micro-milling and soft-lithography.▪ Improved existing microfluidics platform and developed new microfluidic designsfor immunodiagnostic sensors.▪ Surface functionalization of PMMA and PDMS microfluidic devices to tailor proteinbinding.▪ Polymer (hydrogel) modification to tune its porosity for immunodiagnostics assay.▪ Developing chemistries for cost effective point of care diagnostics for blood sugardetection.

    • Applied Materials India

      Mar 2019 - now

      Product Management & Product Owner ▪ e-beam metrology project execution and management in leading semiconductor fabs▪ Interacting and collaborating with a cross-culture team comprising colleagues from India, Israel, China, Taiwan and Japan. Through ASM Technologies Limited

      • Product Management | Senior Technical Lead

        Jan 2023 - now
      • Technical Lead

        Jan 2020 - Feb 2023
      • Lead Application Engineer

        Mar 2019 - Jan 2020
  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)

      Scrum Alliance
      Mar 2023
    • Project Management: Solving Common Project Problems

      LinkedIn
      May 2022
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    • Making Quick Decisions

      LinkedIn
      Aug 2023
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  • Honors & Awards

    • Awarded to Sankalp Verma, Ph.D.
      Best poster award Asian Polymer Association Nov 2017 Won best poster award at International Conference on Advances in Polymer Science & Technology (November, 2017), held at New Delhi, India. Title of the poster: 'Agarose Based Transparent Substrates for Versatile Flexible Electronics Applications'.
    • Awarded to Sankalp Verma, Ph.D.
      Best presentation award Soft Materials Research Society of India Dec 2016 Won best oral presentation award at International Conference on Soft Matter (December, 2016), held at MNIT Jaipur, India. Title of the talk: 'Single step patterning of proteins: an effective approach for developing protein based sensors'.
    • Awarded to Sankalp Verma, Ph.D.
      CSIR JRF Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Feb 2012 Scored 58th rank (AIR) in CSIR-NET JRF.