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Researcher / Ultrasound, Microwaves and Optics Department of Physics and Technology komal.agarwal@uit.no You can find me here

Komal Agarwal

Job description

My experience spans academia and innovation, including roles as a researcher at UiT Norges Arctic University and principal investigator for multiple commercialization projects. I have 20+ publications, 25+ conferences, and 2 patent applications, and have secured several commercialization, research, and societal impact calls. My research is diverse, covering topics like bio-inspired materials, nanofiber fabrication, and acoustic microscopy for biological imaging.

  • Shivam Ojha, Komal Agarwal, Amit Shelke, Anowarul Habib :
    Quantification of impedance and mechanical properties of Zeonor using scanning acoustic microscopy
    Applied Acoustics 2024 ARKIV / DOI
  • Komal Agarwal, Shivam Ojha, Roy Ambli Dalmo, Tore Seternes, Amit Shelke, Frank Melandsø et al.:
    Uncertainty analysis of Altantic salmon fish scale's acoustic impedance using 30 MHz C-Scan measurements
    Ultrasonics 2024 ARKIV / DOI
  • Camille Corrio, Juliette Le Gac, Laura Victoria Schulte-Werning, Biswajoy Ghosh, Komal Agarwal :
    GelMA-Chitosan-Polyethylene Oxide Composite Enhances Proliferation of Fibroblast Cells In-Vitro
    2023
  • Komal Agarwal, Anowarul Habib, Frank Melandsø :
    Potential Role of Materials Science for Advancements in Acoustic Microscopy
    2022
  • Komal Agarwal, Nur MM Kalimullah, Syed Asim Hussain Rizvi, Frank Melandsø, Anowarul Habib :
    Visualization of ultrasonic waves in piezoelectric materials
    2022
  • Komal Agarwal, Frank Melandsø, Anowarul Habib :
    Potential Role of Material Science for Advancements in Opto-Acoustic Microscopy
    2022
  • Komal Agarwal, Frank Melandsø, Anowarul Habib :
    Materials Science in Photo/Acoustic Transducers
    2022

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    Publications outside Cristin

    Peer-Reviewed Publications:

    1. Ghosh, B., Agarwal, K . , Habib, A., Agarwal, K., and Melandso, F. Label-free acoustic and optical microscopy of live tumor spheroids in hydrogel for high-throughput 3D In-vitro drug screening. bioRxiv, 2024-08 (2024). https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.08.28.610181.abstract
    2. Agarwal, K ., Ojha, S., Dalmo, RA, Seternes, T., Shelke, A., Melandsø, F., and Habib, A. Uncertainty analysis of Altantic salmon fish scale's acoustic impedance using 30 MHz C-Scan measurements. Ultrasonics, 142, 107360, (2024). https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0041624X24001227
    3. Ojha, S., Agarwal, K. , Shelke, A., and Habib, A. Quantification of impedance and mechanical properties of Zeonor using scanning acoustic microscopy. Applied Acoustics, 221, 109981, (2024). https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003682X24001324
    4. Agarwal, K. , Habib, A., and Melandsø, F. Acoustic Velocity Estimation of Salmon Fish Scales Using Acoustic Microscope. Proceedings of IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), 2023. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10308251
    5. Ranjan, A., Agarwal, K. , and Melandsø, F. Photoacoustic and Ultrasound Imaging of Caridea for Quantification of Pigments and Hardness Measurement. Proceedings of IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), 2023. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10308042
    6. Agarwal, K. , Sahay, R., Baji, A. and Budiman, AS Biomimetic Tough Helicoidally Structured Material Through Novel Electrospinning Based Additive Manufacturing. Materials Research Society (MRS) Advances, 4 (43), (2019). https://doi.org/10.1557/adv.2019.313
    7. Agarwal, K. , Zhou, Y., Ali, A., Parveen, H., Radchenko, I., Baji, A. and Budiman, AS Additive Manufacturing Enabled by Electrospinning for Tougher Bio-Inspired Materials. Advances in Materials Science and Engineering, (2018). https://doi.org/10.1155/2018/8460751
    8. Agarwal, K. , Habib, A., and Melandsø, F. Adhesive-Free Zinc Oxide Polymer Transducers for Acoustic Microscopy. 46th Scandinavian Symposium on Physical Acoustics (SSPA), 2023.
    9. Agarwal, K. , Rizvi SAH., Shekle, A., Melandsø, F. and Habib, A. Visualization of ultrasonic waves in piezoelectric materials. Proceedings of Symposium on Ultrasonic Electronics, 2022. https://doi.org/10.24492/use.43.0_1Pb3-5
    10. Agarwal, K. , Sahay, R., Baji, A. and Budiman, AS Impact Resistant and Tough Helicoidally Aligned Fiber Reinforced Composite with Tunable Mechanical Properties. American Chemical Society (ACS) Applied Polymer Materials, 2, no. 8 (2020): 3491-3504. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsapm.0c00518
    11. Agarwal, K. , Sahay, R., Subramani, A., Raghavan, N., Budiman, AS and Baji, A. Helicoidally Arranged Polyacrylonitrile Submicron Fiber-Reinforced Strong and Impact-Resistant Thin Polyvinyl Alcohol Film Enabled by Electrospinning-Based Integrated Additive Manufacturing. Polymers, 12 (10), (2020). https://doi.org/10.3390/polym12102376
    12. Agarwal, K. , Sahay, R. and Baji, A. Tensile Properties of Composite Reinforced with Three-Dimensional Printed Fibers. Polymers, 12 (5), (2020). https://doi.org/10.3390/polym12051089
    13. Agarwal, K. , Fernandez, J., and Baji, A. "Tough and Impact-Resistant Helicoidal Electrospun Fiber-Reinforced Composites." Singapore University of Technology and Design, 2020
    14. Singh, H., Agarwal, K. , Ahmad, A., Shukla, K., Wagle, S., Melandsø, F. and Habib, A. Digital Refocusing in Acoustic Microscopy Images Using Adversarial Autoencoders. Proceedings of IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), 2023. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10306752
    15. Budiman, Arief Suriadi, Rahul Sahay, Agarwal, K. , Rayya Fajarna, Fergyanto E. Gunawan, Avinash Baji, and Nagarajan Raghavan. "Modeling Impact Mechanics of 3D Helicoidally Architected Polymer Composites Enabled by Additive Manufacturing for Lightweight Silicon Photovoltaics Technology." Polymers 14, no. 6 (2022): 1228. https://doi.org/10.3390/polym14061228
    16. Zhang, W., Wang, H., Hongtao, W., Chan JYE, Liu, H., Zhang, B., Zhang, YF, Agarwal, K. , Yang, X., Ranganath, AS, Low, HY, Ge, Q., and Yang, J. Structural multi-colour invisible inks with submicron 4D printing of shape memory polymers. Nature Communications 12, 112, (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20300-2
    17. Budiman, AS, Sahay, R., Agarwal, K. , Illya, G., Widjaja RG, Baji, A. and Raghavan, N. “Impact-Resistant and Tough 3D Helicoidally Architected Polymer Composites Enabling Next Generation Lightweight Silicon Photovoltaics Module Design and Technology.” Polymers 13, no. 19 (2021): 3315. https://doi.org/10.3390/polym13193315
    18. Baji, A., Agarwal, K. and Oopath, SV Emerging Developments in the Use of Electrospun Fibers and Membranes for Protective Clothing Applications. Polymers, 12 (2), (2020). https://doi.org/10.3390/polym12020492
    19. Thakur, N., Ranganath, AS, Agarwal, K. and Baji, A. Electrospun Bead-On-String Hierarchical Fibers for Fog Harvesting Application. Macromolecular Materials and Engineering, 302 (7), (2017). https://doi.org/10.1002/mame.201700124

     

    Book Chapters

    1. Agarwal, K. , Sahay, R., Budiman, AS, Baji, A. Development of strong and tough electrospun fiber reinforced composites. Electrospun Polymers and Composites (2021), Woodhead Publishing. ISBN: 9780128196113. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-819611-3.00009-1

    Conference Presentations

    1. Agarwal, K. , Ojha, S., Agarwal, C., Melandsø, F., Agarwal, KRA., Habib, A., and Ghosh, B. Acoustic properties of chitosan-GelMA composite hydrogel. The 45th Symposium on UltraSonic Electronics (USE), 2024, Tokyo, Japan.
    2. Ghosh, B., Agarwal, K. , Melandsø, F., and Agarwal, KRA Scanning Acoustic Microscope for Visualizing 3D Cell Clusters Embedded in Hydrogel Systems. The 45th Symposium on UltraSonic Electronics (USE), 2024, Tokyo, Japan.
    3. Khan, MSA., Ojha, S., Agarwal, A. , Shelke A, Ahmad, A., and Habib, A. Coded Signal Scanning Acoustic Microscopy. The 45th Symposium on UltraSonic Electronics (USE), 2024, Tokyo, Japan.
    4. Ojha.S, Agarwal, K. , Khan MSA., Shelke, A., and Habib, A. Specific acoustic impedance mapping of shrimp scale using scanning acoustic microscopy. The 45th Symposium on UltraSonic Electronics (USE), 2024, Tokyo, Japan.
    5. Agarwal, K. and Ghosh, B. Influence of GelMA-Chitosan Composite on In Vitro Fibroblast Cell Proliferation. Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society (TERMIS), 2024, Seattle, US.
    6. Agarwal, K. , Senthilkumar, SH, Habib, A., and Melandsø, F. Polarization of Zinc Oxide Doped Polyvinyldene Fluoride Films for Bio-imaging Using Acoustic Transducers. 9th International Conference on Metal-Organic Frameworks and Open Framework Compounds (MOF2024).
    7. Agarwal, K. , Habib, A., and Melandsø, F. Biomechanical Properties Estimation of Salmon Fish Scales using Acoustic Microscope. IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), Montreal, Canada, 2023.
    8. Ranjan, A., Agarwal, K., and Melandsø, F. Photoacoustic and Ultrasound Imaging of Caridea for Quantification of Pigments and Hardness Measurement. IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), Montreal, Canada, 2023.
    9. Corrio, C., Le Gac, J., Schulte, LW, Ghosh, B., and Agarwal, K. GelMA-Chitosan-Polyethylene Oxide Composite Enhances Proliferation of Fibroblast Cells In-Vitro. European Research Materials Society (EMRS), Warsaw, Portugal, 2023.
    10. Agarwal, K., Sahay, R., Subramani, A., Baji, A., and Budiman, AS 3D Biomimetic Thin Film Composite Design for Tougher Material. International Conference on Materials for Advanced Technologies, Singapore, 2019
    11. Agarwal, K., Baji, A., and Budiman, ASBiomimetic, Strong yet Tough Composites through Electrospinning as an Additive Manufacturing Methodology. International Reliability and Stress Related Phenomena (IRSP), Singapore, 2018
    12. Subramani, A., Agarwal, K., Sahay, R., and Budiman, AS Low-Velocity Impact Testing of Damage-Resistant Bio-Mimetic Composite Structures Manufactured with Electrospinning. International Conference on Materials for Advanced Technologies, Singapore, 2019
    13. Agarwal, K., Habib, A., and Melandsø, F., Focus on Microscopy Conference, Porto, Portugal, 2023.
    14. Agarwal, K., Habib, A., and Melandsø, F., 46th Scandinavian Symposium on Physical Acoustics (SSPA), Geilo, Norway, 2023
    15. Agarwal, K., Habib, A., and Melandsø, F., TNNN conference and Norwegian nano symposium 2022, Trondheim, Norway, 2022
    16. Agarwal, K., Rizvi, SAH, Shelke, A, Melandsø, F., Habib, A., The 43rd Symposium on UltraSonic Electronics (USE2022), Kyoto, Japan, 2022
    17. Agarwal, K., Melandsø, F., Habib, A., Norwegian Electro-optic (NEO) Meeting, Røros, Norway, 2022
    18. Agarwal, K., Sahay, R., Baji, A. MRS Advanced Materials Conference (AMC), Singapore, 2020
    19. Agarwal, K., Sahay, R., Baji, A., and Budiman, AS Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, Boston, US, 2019
    20. Agarwal, K., Sahay, R., Budiman, AS, and A Baji. Materials Research Society Spring Meeting, Phoenix, US, 2019
    21. Singh, H., Agarwal, K., Ahmad, A., Shukla, K., Wagle, S., Melandsø, F. and Habib, A. IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), Montreal, Canada, 2023.
    22. Habib, A., Shukla, K., Ahmad A., Agarwal, K., Melandsø.F, 46th Scandinavian Symposium on Physical Acoustics, 2023.
    23. Sahay, R., Agarwal, K., Baji, A. MRS Advanced Materials Conference (AMC), Singapore, 2020

     

    Patent Applications and Invention Disclosures

    1. Fiber resolution targets (FiRsT), Invention disclosure in Dec 2021, UK International Patent Application 2309111.9 filed on 16th June 2023.
    2. DOFI on MarGel, Invention disclosure in Sep 2024. 

    Research interests

    Functional and structural polymers for optical microscopy calibration tools, structural significance, and ultrasonic transducers; Advanced materials for cancer drug discovery assays and wound healing scaffolds; biomimetic materials for artificial tissue scaffolds.

    Teaching

    Biomedical Instrumentation and Imaging @UiT, Engineering physics, SUTD (Summer 2018), Nanomechanical characterization lab, SUTD (April 2019), Engineering economics, HMSIT, India (Fall 2013), Machine design Laboratory HMSIT, India (Fall, 2013)

     

    Researcher profile in Cristin
    ResearchGate
    ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3762-7942

    Member of research group

    Ultrasound, Microwaves and Optics   Norsk innhold

    CV

    Education

    Doctor of Philosophy (Engineering Product Development) 2016-2020 Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), Singapore.   Thesis title:  "Tough and Impact-Resistant Helicoidal Electrospun Fiber-Reinforced Composites". 
    Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Javier G. Fernandez & Asst. Prof. Avinash Baji

    Publication summary

    • Journal articles (international peer reviewed) − 20
    • Conference articles − 10
    • Conference presentations - 25+
    • Book chapters − 1
    • Patent applications − 1
    • Invention disclosures - 2

    Honors and Awards

    • Selected in EIC Tech to Market Pioneer Program for Cymoplive
    • Selected in EIC Tech to Market Venture Building Program for Cymolive
    • Singapore University of Technology and Design's PhD Fellowship, 2016-2021
    • Gold Medalist - highest undergraduate course average at the institution level 

    Research Experience

    1. Researcher  June 2024- present
    Principal investigator of the NFR commercialization verification project - Fiber Resolution Targets for Optical Nano and Microscopy. 

    2.  Post-Doctoral Research Fellow  April 2021 - June 2024
    UiT Norges Arctic University (The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø)
    • Live and fixed (genetically modified organisms (GMOs), fish embryo heart, fish skin and scales, and shrimp skin and scales) label-free acoustic microscopy imaging for tracking biological
    activities and determining biomechanical properties
    • Develop special functionalized Polyvinyldene Fluoride (PVDF) polymer and copolymers (PVDF- TrFE) thin-film for acoustic transducers for integration in the photo-acoustic microscopy (PAM) and scanning acoustic microscopy (SAM)
    • Developing acoustic sensors for integration in microfluidic devices (IP protected). Working on this patent as technology developer, not as inventor
    • Develop synthetic nanofibers of different refractive indices for optical microscopy (IP protected) - as an inventor
    • Fabricating carbohydrate nanofibers (cellulose, chitosan) for protein matrix gels for developing 3D organotype for various applications


    3. Ph.D. Associated Research Projects:  Jan 2016 - Jan 2021
    • Fabrication methodologies of UV curable polyurethane based on Gecko inspired adhesive polymer base for wall climbing robot prototypes
    • Automatic fiber placement robot optimization for developing Polyimide/carbon fiber composites
    • Bio-mimicking helical and other complex geometrical fibers and composite prototypes for developing tough and impact-resistant bio inspired materials
    • Reducing fiber size while maintaining complex geometrical architecture of the fiber scaffolds
    • Free-standing carbon electrode made via carbonization process of the polyacrylonitrile electrospun membrane
    • Spider-web inspired electrospun bead-on-string hierarchical fiber prototypes for fog harvesting
    • Nanomechanical quantification (indentation and scratch tests) of Copper Graphene ( few atomic layers) film vs copper film. Nanoindenation, thermal and mechanical analysis for various polymers and mineralized biomaterials
    • Development of chitosan films and membranes and their molecular alignment characterization 

    4.  Research Internship 

    • Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), Singapore  Summer 2016
    • SUTD-MIT International Design Center (IDC), Singapore  Fall 2015

     

    Funding Profile

    1. Proof-of-concept commercialization grant - RCN  Summer 2024
    Fiber Resolution Targets for Optical Nano & Microscopes (FiRsT) PI- Komal Agarwal, Workpack age leader- Biswajoy Ghosh.
    2. Impact call- Digital Life Norway (DLN)  Summer 2024
    Farm-a-see: Non-invasive, non-destructive sensing of Fish & hydroponics farms using acoustic sensing in the Arctic- Komal Agarwal (leader), Biswajoy Ghosh (event organizer and members).

    3. Innovation supplementary funding- UiT  Summer 2024
    Refractive Index Contrast Prototypes for Fiber-based Optical Microcopy Calibration Targets - Inventor & PI: Komal Agarwal, Co-inventor: Biswajoy Ghosh & Krishna Agarwal
    4. Innovation Qualification Grant- Research Council of Norway  Spring 2023
    Versatile resolution targets for optical microscopy - Inventor: Komal Agarwal, Biswajoy Ghosh & Krishna Agarwal

    5. Transdisciplinary Grant for Young Researchers- DLN  Fall 2021
    Photo-acoustic & acoustic microscopy enables determination of biomechanical properties: implications
    in fish tissue imaging- PI: Komal Agarwal & Laura Shulte Werning.

     

    Work Experience
    1.  Project Manager  April-July 2023
    Project management of my own DLN transdisciplinary grant for young researchers including buying equipment, consumables, travelling, invoicing, recruitment of services and more.
    2.  Supervision  April-July 2023
    Supervised a bachelor of science intern Camille Corrio (in collaboration with Institut Universitaire de Technologie de Rennes (IUT, Rennes, France) in Gelatin and carbohydrate 3D matrices for cell culture.
    3.  Instructor/Trainer or Scientific Equipment  2017 - Jan 2021
    Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore
    Trainer/ Charpy impact tester, drop impact tester, nanoindenter, electrospinning, DSC, TGA, DMA, FTIR, XRD, universal testing machine, other basic material fabrication and characterization instruments
    4.  Teaching UiT
    The Arctic University of Norway and Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), Singapore
    Biomedical Imaging and Materials, Engineering physics, Nanomechanical characterization lab. Engineering economics and Machine design Laboratory at HMSIT ,
    India   January -September, 2018
    Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore
    3 high school students for fabricating electrospun smoke filtration membrane, funded by Singapore Ministry of Education (MOE). 4 undergraduate students in fabricating material for sensors, SUTD. 3 undergraduate students to shape the memory smart metal for using as an underwire in brassieres to avoid permanent deformation due to washing and drying.
    6.  Content Research Analyst  May - September, 2015
    Apex CoVantage Pvt. ltd, Hyderabad, India
    Role: Content research and online catalog for connectors and parts of automobile and heavy machinery

    Skills:  Project management, Research and Innovation in material sciences, applications of material science in bioimaging and cancer drug screening.