Dr Megha Mehta

Research Fellow

Megha attained her Bachelors in Chemistry(Honors) from University of Delhi, India and later completed her Masters in Forensic Science from University of Technology, Sydney. Due to her master’s research project on drug detection using Raman spectroscopy, she has developed interest in pursuing research using spectroscopy for her Ph.D. studies. Megha attained her PhD in nanoscience on environmental and biological analysis using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy, from Massey University, New Zealand in 2019 with the “Massey University Dean’s Graduation Award”. In conjunction with her Ph.D., she was also working as a Graduate Assistant in nanoscience department. Megha after her PhD worked for 2 years as a Research Scientist with New Zealand Leather and Shoe Research Association and obtained ‘Young Leather Scientist Award’ in 2020. Her current research areas are to further exploit the potential of vibrational spectroscopy in conjunction with chemometrics to detect the biomolecular changes in skins, tissues and to diagnose the problem.

Megha is a Member of Royal Society of Chemistry (MRSC). Megha is currently working as a postdoctoral fellow on the RaNT project (Raman Nanotheranostics (EPSRC programme grant, Exeter U., STFC, Cambridge U. and UCL) with Prof. Nick Stone for developing novel methods for non-invasive personalised cancer diagnosis using SERS and SESORS).