Rate My Professor P Biji

Dr. P. Biji is Professor and Head of the Department of Chemistry and Nanoscience and Technology at PSG Institute of Advanced Studies, Coimbatore. She earned her Ph.D. in Chemistry from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras in 2009, focusing on Hybrid Gold Nanoarchitectures for Directed Electron Transport, and her M.Sc. in Applied Chemistry from Cochin University of Science and Technology in 2003. Qualified in CSIR-UGC-NET for Lectureship and GATE, she joined PSG Institute of Advanced Studies as Assistant Professor in Nanotechnology in 2009. She advanced to Assistant Professor (Senior Grade and Selection Grade), Associate Professor in Nanotechnology and Chemistry at PSG Institute of Advanced Studies and PSG College of Technology, before becoming Professor and Head in 2022. Dr. Biji oversees the Nanosensors & Clean Energy Laboratory, Large Area Coatings Laboratory, Green Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Laboratory, Multimode Scanning Probe Microscopy Facility, and Confocal Raman Microscopy Facility.

Dr. Biji's research specializations encompass proton exchange membrane fuel cells, green hydrogen production, self-cleaning coatings for photovoltaic and non-photovoltaic applications, gas sensors, and ion-selective sensors. Her scholarly contributions have garnered over 3,500 citations with an h-index of 35. Key publications include Highly Sensitive, Room Temperature Gas Sensor based on Polyaniline-Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes (PANI/MWCNTs) Nanocomposite for Trace-Level Ammonia Detection (2015), Plasmon-Mediated Highly Enhanced Photocatalytic Degradation of Industrial Textile Dyes using Hybrid ZnO@Ag Core-shell Nanorods (2014), Wearable, Flexible Ethanol Gas Sensor Based on TiO2 Nanoparticles-Grafted 2D-Titanium Carbide Nanosheets (2019), 3D-Printed Microfluidic Integrated SERS Salivary Biosensor Utilizing Fe@Ag/Carbon Nanofibers for Advanced Machine Learning-driven Non-Invasive, Label-Free Mass Screening of Lung Cancer (2025), and Label-Free SERS Detection of Pesticides Using Ag-Functionalized Black Silicon Derived from Recycled Solar Cells (2025). She has received the Society for Materials Chemistry Bronze Medal (2024), MILIR-2024 Best Scientist Award, Best Faculty Award (2019), Best Women Faculty Award (2017), and multiple best paper and poster awards at international conferences including ICMEMSS 2014 and ICAPM 2013.