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Makarand (Mak) Paranjape is an Associate Professor in the Physics Department, having joined the faculty in 1998. His formal background and training is in Electrical Engineering, and he received his Ph.D. from the University of Alberta (Edmonton) in 1993, and was a post-doctoral researcher at Concordia University (Montreal), Simon Fraser University (Vancouver), and the University of California (Berkeley). In 1995, Paranjape held a consulting position for 3 years at the Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica (IRST) in Trento Italy. Paranjape has extensive microfabrication experience having worked at facilities including the Berkeley Sensor and Actuator Center (BSAC), the Alberta Microelectronic Centre (AMC), and the standard CMOS-MEMS facility at IRST. Paranjape is an inventor of a unique biomedical technology for sensing human glucose concentrations using a blood-free, pain-free transdermal patch, and holds key intellectual property on the technology. He has served on review panels for the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), and the Austrian Science Fund (FWF Der Wissenschaftsfonds). Paranjape is Associate Editor for Biomedical Microdevices and an editorial board member for Sensors and Materials. Paranjape’s research focuses on the engineering of functional sensors for biomedical applications that are fabricated in the Georgetown Nanoscience and Microtechnology Laboratory (GNμLab), which uses the same equipment and technologies associated with the production of integrated circuits. Prof. Paranjape has a track-record of involving all levels of undergraduates, graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and even high-school students in many aspects of his research.