User:Aju Jugessur

Dr. Aju Jugessur was born on the island of Mauritius located in the Indian Ocean. He is a Senior Research Scientist and Nanolithography Facility Manager in the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering at the University of Toronto. He obtained B.Sc.(Hons.) and M.Sc. degrees from the University of Natal, South-Africa, followed by a Ph.D. in Optoelectronics, Electronic Engineering in 2004 from the University of Glasgow, U.K, under a EPSRC scholarship. His post-doctoral work was carried out in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University.

He has set up and continues to develop the one of its kind, multimillion dollar Electron-Beam Nanolithography Facility in Ontario and Western Canada for Nanotechnology research and nano-device fabrication for a wide range of research and industrial applications. He has also introduced and developed an undergraduate hands-on nanofabrication course in cleanroom. He has set-up training modules in nanolithography for postgraduate students at the University of Toronto.

Jugessur’s research interests include photonic crystals, ultra high-Q microcavity, mode-matching, optofluidic, bio-sensors, micro-total-analysis systems, lab-on-a-chip, electron-beam nanolithography. Recently, he demonstrated the integration of a Silicon-on-Insulator photonic sensor with a microfluidic chip for bio-sensing applications.