Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Chemistry, Northwestern University
Ph.D. in Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh

The interdisciplinary research in the Sharma research group focuses on probing and characterizing the underlying chemistry and physics of biological processes. The long range research goal of the group is the use of innovative Raman spectroscopic methods to create new approaches for early detection of disease (both in vitro and in vivo detection), as well as methods for chemical and biological sensing.

2021 Emerging Leader in Molecular Spectroscopy Award (Spectroscopy Magazine)

2021 Nominated for Analyst Emerging Leading Lectureship

B. A. Barth, A. L. Wood, P. J. Albenice, A. E. Imel, B. Sharma, T. A. Zawodzinski, Surfactant Effects in Porous Electrodes for Microemulsion Redox Flow Batteries, Journal of the Electrochemical Society, 2024, 171, 050546, DOI: 10.1149/1945-7111/ad4ac5

B.O. LaDouceur, M.C. McCanta, B. Sharma, G.M. Sarabia, N.E. Dunn, M. D. Dyar, Predicting Silicate Glass Geochemistry Using Raman Spectroscopy and Supervised Machine Learning: Partial Least Square Applications to Amorphous Raman Spectra. Applied Spectroscopy, 2024, 78(5):456-476, DOI: 10.1177/00037028241234681

P.A. Pimiento, N.E. Dunn, B. Sharma, Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy combined with multivariate analysis for the detection and differentiation of dopamine and DOPAC in cerebrospinal fluid. J. Raman Spectrosc. 2023, 54 (9), 917-928; DOI: 10.1002/jrs.6571

T. D. Payne, A. S. Moody, A. L. Wood, P. A. Pimiento, J. C. Elliott, and B. Sharma, Raman Spectroscopy and Neuroscience: From Fundamental Understanding to Disease Diagnostics and Imaging, Analyst,2020,145, 3461-3480. DOI: 10.1039/D0AN00083C  

A.S. Moody, T.D. Payne, B.A. Barth, and B. Sharma. Surface-enhanced spatially-offset Raman spectroscopy (SESORS) for detection of neurochemicals through the skull at physiologically relevant concentrations. Analyst, 2020,145, 1885-1893. DOI: 10.1039/C9AN01708A.