Veerappan Mani is a research scientist in the Sensors Laboratory at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). He holds a PhD from National Taipei University of Technology (NTUT), Taiwan. He has been a visiting scientist at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), U.S.A. He has published more than 108 SCI papers (citations: 5575; h-index: 42). He serves as Editorial Board Member of the International Journal of Molecular Sciences (MDPI; I.F 5.923), Associate Editor of Frontiers for Materials (Frontiers; I.F 3.515), Special Issue Editor for Micromachines (MDPI: I.F 2.891) and Review Editor for frontiers in electronics. He has been included in the list of the world's top 2% scientists published by Stanford University researchers (Rank = 1218/186014). He has been recognized as a “2023 Rising Star in Measurement Science” by the journal ACS Measurement Science Au'.​

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Total No. of Publications: 113, Citations: 5835, h-index: 42

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Using biological, electrochemical, and analytical knowledge, he functionalizes, tunes, integrates, hybridizes, and modifies materials and provides the appropriate materials solution for the sensors and diagnostic devices. His current research areas are, (1) Developing smart hydrogel-coated microneedles for extraction, sensing, and delivery (hospital on a chip), (2) Bioengineering 2D materials for point-of-care diagnosis of cardiovascular disease biomarkers,  (3) Integrating sensing devices for emerging pharmaceutical contaminants in water resources, (4) Exploring enzyme properties of single-atom catalysts for analyzing oxidative stress biomarkers and gasotransmitters, and (5) Developing laser-scribed graphene electrodes for large-scale applications.