Richa Sharma received her post-graduate degree in Industrial Biotechnology from the National Institute of Technology Karnataka, India, while working on nanobiotechnology and bioluminescence. Her Ph.D. work at the Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI), India, focused on biosensing applications in food. She received the Newton-Bhabha Postdoctoral Research Fellowship to work in the School of Chemistry, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom. Her current interests are nanoparticle synthesis, aptasensing, food and biomedical biosensing, and bioreceptor-ligand interaction.