Ruchi completed her first degree at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore before gaining an MASc from McMaster University Canada in 2005. She joined the Miniaturisation and Nanotechnology and Syngenta Sensors UIC groups at the University of Manchester for her PhD, where she developed electroseparation methods for sample preparation and analysis of cellulose degrading enzymes in sugarcane juice. This was followed with postdoctoral work in optical sensors with Professor Nick Goddard at the University of Manchester. She then received a fellowship from the Royal Academy of Engineering to continue her work on optical sensors. Ruchi joined the Department of Chemistry at the University of Hull in September 2014.

Chemical Process Technology

Optical sensors Microfluidics Sample preparation Organic electronics

My research lies in the development of miniaturised analytical systems for applications including healthcare, process analysis and drug discovery.

R. Gupta, N.J. Goddard, A novel biosensor with internal referencing, Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences, October 2013, Freiburg, Germany. R. Gupta, N.J. Goddard, Integration of leaky waveguide detection with electrowetting on dielectric digital microfluidic devices, Sensors and their Applications XVII, September 2013, Dubrovnik, Croatia. doi: 10.1088/1742-6596/450/1/012005. R. Gupta, N.J. Goddard, A polymeric waveguide resonant mirror (RM) device for detection in microfluidic flow cells, Analyst, 138, 3209-3215 (2013). doi: 10.1039/C3AN00263B. R. Gupta, N.J. Goddard, A novel leaky waveguide grating (LWG) device for evanescent wave broadband absorption spectroscopy in microfluidic flow cells, Analyst, 138, 1803-1811 (2013). doi: 10.1039/C3AN36714B. R. Gupta, B. Bastani, N.J. Goddard, B.D. Grieve, Absorption spectroscopy in microfluidic flow cells using a metal clad leaky waveguide device with a porous gel waveguide layer, Analyst, 138, 307-314 (2013). doi: 10.1039/C2AN35898K. R. Gupta, S.J. Baldock, P. Carreras, P.R. Fielden, N.J. Goddard, S. Mohr, B.S. Razavi, B.J. Treves, A microfluidic device for self-synchronised production of droplets, Lab on a Chip, 11, 4052-4056 (2011). doi: 10.1039/C1LC20695H. R. Gupta, S.J. Baldock, P.R. Fielden, B.D. Grieve, Capillary zone electrophoresis for the analysis of glycoforms of cellobiohydrolases, Journal of Chromatography A, 1218, 5362-5368 (2011). doi: 10.1016/j.chroma.2011.06.036. R. Gupta, S.J. Baldock, P.R. Fielden, J.E. Preset, B.D. Grieve, Isotachophoresis-based sample preparation of cellulases in sugarcane juice using BSA as a model protein, Journal of Chromatography A, 1217, 8026-8031 (2011). doi: 10.1016/j.chroma.2010.08.047.