Affiliation: German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR), Department of Chemical and Product Safety

Dr. Ajay Vikram Singh is a senior scientist at the Department for Chemical and Product Safety at the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR), Berlin. In this role, Dr. Singh supports a vibrant role of experimental toxicologist and material science expert of about 750 scientists (graduate students, postdocs, staff scientists and technicians), who work tirelessly to provide scientific advice to the German federal government on issues relating to food safety, product safety, chemical safety, contaminants in the food chain, animal protection and consumer health protection. Prior to joining BfR, Dr. Singh was a senior research scientist at Max Planck Institute of Physical Intelligence (MPIS), Stuttgart for more than 4 years, supporting and shaping the safer materials design strategies to targeted drug delivery using Micro/Nanorobotics platforms. Dr. Singh received his MSc degree in Biotechnology from Pune University, India, in 2005 and a PhD in Medical Nanotechnology from the European School of Molecular Medicine (SEMM), University of Milan, Italy, in 2012. He was a senior research scientist at Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPIS) Stuttgart during 2015-2018 in Micro/Nanorobotics. Since 2018, he is a senior scientist at Department of Chemical and Product Safety, German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR), Berlin, Germany. His research interests include Chemical and Nanotoxicology, Micropatterning, Micro-nanorobotics, Neurobiology, Materials Engineering & Antibacterial Surfaces and understanding the bio-physicochemical interactions at the nano-bio interface.