Sheila Bhatt
PhD Student
Sheila is a final year PhD student at IEEF, working on the dynamics of flow and deposition in droplets of human blood. She has returned to research after a career in industry, with an extensive background in technical, innovation and research management and a track-record in entrepreneurship. Her preference is for interdisciplinary challenges, exemplified by her choice of PhD subject of the biomechanics of blood for pre-diagnostics in low resource scenarios, which brings together aspects of colloid science, interfacial engineering, medical science and machine learning for biomedical applications. Prior to her PhD, she worked for Unilever Research, then with technology-driven startups developing sensors and systems for the energy-optimisation market.
2024
Optical absorbance profilometry for tracking time-resolved particle redistribution in high volume fraction colloidal droplets Journal Article
In: Scientific Reports, vol. 14, no. 1, 2024.
Front-Tracking and Gelation in Sessile Droplet Suspensions: What Can They Tell Us about Human Blood? Journal Article
In: Biomacromolecules, vol. 25, no. 12, pp. 7594 – 7607, 2024.