Dr Dushanth Seevaratnam is a research associate in the Fluids in Advanced Manufacturing research group, supervised by Prof. Ronan Daly, at the Institute for Manufacturing. His research portfolio includes addressing the sustainability demands of healthcare through the incorporation of digital technologies, designing and developing instruments to study and profile the delivery of key chemotherapeutic agents for Hard-to-Treat cancer therapy, and exploring the various applications of touchscreen sensing for agricultural purposes.

Dushanth received his Bachelor of Applied Science in Nanotechnology Engineering from the University of Waterloo and his PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Cambridge. Under the supervision of Prof. Lisa Hall, Dushanth focused his PhD research on the development of low-cost molecular diagnostics for low resource settings through a combination of protein engineering and isothermal nucleic acid amplification techniques. After conducting clinical trials for malaria screening, he further developed the technology for both dengue and COVID-19 detection.

Lastly, he has been working with the University of Cambridge Centre for Global Equality to develop a do-it-yourself air filtration system (SAFE – Safe Air for Everyone) to tackle air pollution in high density urban homes.