S Kumar Lab
Research Profile
Adjunct Professor
2021 - Present
Lulea Institute of Technology, Sweden
Associate Professor
2019 - Present
Department of Biophysics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
Assistant Professor
2016 - 2019
Department of Biophysics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
Project Leader
2015 - 2016
Department of Engineering Science, Uppsala University, Sweden
Post-Doctoral Fellow
2014 - 2015
Canadian Light Source, Saskatoon, Canada
Post-Doctoral Fellow
2011 - 2014
Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
Research Assistant
2011 - 2014
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Stockholm University, Sweden
Academics
Ph.D.
2011
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Stockholm University, Sweden
Licentiate Degree
2010
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Stockholm University, Sweden
Degree Project
2006
Department of Biophysics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
Junior Research Fellow
2004
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Stockholm University, Sweden
Master of Science in Biophysics
2004
All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
Bachelor of Science in Human Biology
2001
All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
Awards & Scholarships
Mobility for Growth
2015
Project Leader, VINNOVA-VINNMER (Swedish-European Research)
CIHR-Thrust
2014
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Canadian Light Source, Saskatoon, Canada
Brains Back to Brussels
2011
Post-Doctoral Fellow (only given in exceptional cases non-Belgian)
Post-Doctoral Grant
2011
National Fund for Scientific Research, Belgium
Swedish International Post-Doctoral Grant
2011
Visiting researcher in Belgium
Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowship
2011
Fellowship for career development
Lawski Fellowship
2006
To pursue PhD study
Important Recognitions
Saroj Kumar, Fredrik Nikolajeff: Early diagnosis of Parkinson's disease. IVA's (Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences) 100 list 2020: From knowledge to sustainable competitiveness. (https://www.iva.se/projekt/research2business/ivas-100-lista-2020/)
Invited review in journal Acta Biomaterialia (Elsevier Publications, IF: 6.638), 2019
Established and developed “Infrared Spectroscopy and Imaging Laboratory” at Uppsala University, Sweden
Invited by MedTech4Health, Uppsala to participate in Indo-Swedish Health Year 2019 at Swedish Embassy, India
Joint Secretory - 19th Biennial Conference of Association of Gerontology, 2019
Expert reviewer of “Polish National Grant Application”, Poland, 2019
Invited to write a commentary by British Journal of Dermatology on use of Infrared in disease recognition, 2018
Editor for Scientific Journals
Cogent Chemistry (Taylor & Francis Group)
The Open Medicinal Chemistry Journal (Bentham Science)
Reviewer for Scientific Journals
The Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS), USA (IF: 9.5804)
British Journal of Dermatology (Wiley-Blackwell) (IF: 6.714)
Spectroscopy Letters (Taylor & Francis Group) (IF: 1.081)
Environmental Science and Technology (American Chemical Society Publications) (IF: 7.149)
Molecular Pharmaceutics (American Chemical Society Publications) (IF: 4.396)
Journal of Molecular Catalysis B: Enzymatic (Science-Direct Publication) (IF: 2.269)
3 Biotech (Springer Publications) (IF:1.786)