Monika Poonia, a chemical engineering postdoctoral researcher in Professor Geoffrey Bothun’s lab, presented her research on surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) and electrochemical sensors at an international conference on bioanalytical sensors.

The conference, titled “Interconnecting Biology and Devices to Analyze Microscopic Cells to the Macroscopic World,” was held at Salve Regina University in Newport from June 26 to July 1. Some of the guest speakers traveled from Germany, Japan, Saudi Arabia, England and Canada.

Prior to coming to the University of Rhode Island in 2019, Poonia received her doctorate in condensed matter physics in India in 2017 and worked on thin films of carbon-based nanomaterials and their sensing applications as a visiting scientist at the University of Kansas.