Rate My Professor Manas Gartia

Manas Gartia is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering holding the Dean's Advisory Council Professorship in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College. He received his PhD in Nanophotonics and Biosensing from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2013, MS in Computational Fluid Dynamics from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur in 2003, and BS in Mechanical Engineering from University College of Engineering, Burla, India in 2000. After completing a postdoctoral fellowship in Biomedical Research, he joined LSU in 2015 as an Assistant Professor and advanced to Associate Professor. Gartia leads research developing high-resolution Raman microscopy-based analytical methods for spatial lipidomics imaging to examine lipid and metabolomic changes in cells and tissues responding to diseases and stresses. His expertise encompasses Raman spectroscopy, molecular biophotonics, label-free sensor development, cancer biology, and lipidomics. He has published over 100 journal and conference papers and secured 10 patents.

Key publications include "Multimodal Imaging of Pancreatic Cancer Microenvironment in Response to an Antiglycolytic Drug" in Advanced Healthcare Materials (2023), "Nucleotide-Driven Molecular Sensing of Monkeypox Virus Through Hierarchical Self-Assembly of 2D Hafnium Disulfide Nanoplatelets and Gold Nanospheres" in Advanced Functional Materials (2023), "Label-free mapping and profiling of altered lipid homeostasis in the rat hippocampus after traumatic stress: role of oxidative homeostasis" in Neurobiology of Stress (2022), "Multimodal Label-Free Monitoring of Adipogenic Stem Cell Differentiation Using Endogenous Optical Biomarkers" in Advanced Functional Materials (2021), and "Ultrasensitive Three-Dimensional Orientation Imaging of Single Molecules on Plasmonic Nanohole Arrays using Second Harmonic Generation" in Nano Letters (2019). His innovations in colorimetric nano-plasmonic sensors and mobile phone-based water nano-sensors have been featured in Forbes Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Wired Magazine, Huffington Post, and exhibited at the Hewitt Cooper Museum. Gartia has earned major awards such as the NIH MIRA R35 Award (2023, first for LSU Engineering faculty), NSF CAREER Award (2021), Fellowship of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Fellowship in the National Academy of Inventors (2024), LSU Alumni Association Rising Faculty Research Award (2017), Outstanding Research Achievement Award from UIUC College of Engineering (2014), Vodafone Wireless Innovation Award (2013), and Nokia Sensing XChallenge Distinguished Award (2013).