Tarun Narayan is a Marie Curie Early stage researcher at Tyndall National Institute. He completed his 5-year integrated (B. Tech. + M. Tech.) Nanotechnology programme at Amity University, Noida. He worked on the development of surface plasmon resonance (SPR)-based biosensor for colorectal cancer detection as part of M. Tech. thesis. He also worked as Junior Research Fellow in a DBT-funded project at the Department of Biotechnology, Delhi Technological University, India, wherein he worked on the development of SPR sensors for DNA detection. His research interests include microelectrode sensors for environmental applications, surface plasmon resonance and electrochemical biosensors.