Dr Jyotirmayee Dash, Teralumen Solutions

The first Terahertz company in India, TeraLumen Solutions, was founded and is led by Dr. Jyotirmayee Dash. She received her degree in photonics from CSIR CEERI Chennai, and she has three filed patents along with one US granted patent, in addition to publishing over thirty papers in international journals and conference proceedings. With the mission of creating affordable, indigenous Terahertz devices that are customizable for a range of non-destructive industrial and biomedical uses, she created TeraLumen Solutions in 2019. Along with private financing from Pfizer Indovation, the company has received other renowned government awards, including NIDHI-PRAYAS from the Department of Science and Technology and BIRAC-BIG from the Department of Biotechnology. The company has successfully built a large bandwidth Terahertz time domain setup in addition to low cost Continuous Wave Terahertz systems.’