Sandeep Bose

Dr. Sandeep Bose is a postdoctoral fellow at McGill University, Montreal. He obtained his B.Sc. from Gangadhar Meher University, Sambalpur, Odisha in 2011 and his master’s from the School of Chemistry, University of Hyderabad in 2014. He then received his Ph.D. in 2021 under the supervision of Prof. T. Pradeep at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras), Chennai, Tamil Nadu.

Dr. Bose’s research work focuses on the synthesis of functional nanomaterials using electrospray deposition technique and their various applications. Dr. Bose has published several research articles in reputed international journals and has been granted one patent in the field of sustainable nanomaterials. He has qualified the CSIR-UGC NET and GATE examinations. His other scientific recognitions include the Best Poster Award at the 21st National Symposium in Chemistry conducted by the Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI), Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT), Hyderabad in 2017. He also received an International Travel Support Award at IIT Madras from the Government of India to attend the Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Clusters and Nanostructures, Les Diablerets, Switzerland in 2019.

Squamous cell carcinoma of the skin is a common form of skin cancer that develops in the squamous cells that make up the middle and outer layers of the skin. Untreated, squamous cell carcinoma of the skin can grow large or spread to other parts of the body, causing serious complications. However, it can be treated successfully if detected early. During his Fulbright-Nehru Postdoctoral Research fellowship, Dr. Bose is addressing this issue by developing early detection strategies for squamous cell carcinoma by using a combination of photography, mass spectrometry and machine learning.

Madhu Singh

Dr. Madhu Singh is Professor at the Department of English and Modern European Languages, University of Lucknow. After a Ph.D. in modern British poetry, she branched into exploring different dimensions of the British rule in India. Her research interests over the last two decades include anticolonial movements in India, colonial epidemics, Indian Renaissance under colonialism, and documentation of endangered languages and communities. She recently edited a book titled Outbreaks: An Indian Pandemic Reader (Pencraft international, New Delhi, 2021), which deals with the complex challenges of past and present epidemics/pandemics in India in their socio-cultural, literary and historical contexts.

Dr. Singh received a visiting scholarship at the School of Asian and Oriental Studies (SOAS), University of London in 2018-19 for her project on the Bene Israel Jews of India.

During her Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence fellowship, Dr. Singh is working on “Revolutionary Print Culture, Ephemeral Remains, and Vernacular Subjectivities in North America During and After Ghadar Movement (1910-1940)”. She aims to trace the role of California-based periodicals by expatriate Punjabi-Sikh writers in the anticolonial struggle in India, spanning the late 19th and early 20th centuries. She is also redressing gaps and silences in existing research on the Ghadar movement from interdisciplinary perspectives.