Dr. Saakshi Dhanekar is an Assistant Professor at IIT Jodhpur. She works in the development of gas- and bio-sensors based on nanomaterials, heterostructures and MEMS. Prior to joining IIT Jodhpur, she had worked as SERB Research Scientist and INSPIRE Faculty at Centre for Biomedical Engineering and Centre for Applied Research in Electronics (CARE), IIT Delhi respectively from 2013-2019.