Nikhil Bhalla

Biography

I completed my Ph.D. in Electronic and Electrical Engineering in 2015 under the supervision of  Dr. Pedro Estrela from the University of Bath in UK. Prior to Bath, I completed M.S. in Electronic Engineering from Chung Yuan Christian University, Taiwan in 2012 and received B.E. Honors in Electronics and Instrumentation from BITS-Pilani, India in 2010. Following Ph.D. I worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Bath in UK for a period of 3 months just before joining here at Micro/Bio/Nanofluidics Unit. My research interest includes the development of sophisticated biosensing tools for the detection of post translational modification of proteins, disease detection, understanding various intra/inter cellular biochemical process on micro/nano devices. At OIST I will now work on engineering the microenvironment of cancer stem cells. Away from the lab, I ‘love’ cricket (unfortunately not much in Japan), outdoors, guitars and enjoy traveling. Okinawa is a beautiful island to work and live.

Research Interest

 Genomics