Sesha moved from the University of Edinburgh to the University of Southampton in December 2022.

Sesha Venkateswaran is a Chemical Engineer with a PhD in materials and polymer science, and an industrial experience of ~16 years, in research and development, manufacturing, business development and managing international business. Sesha has worked with multi-nationals such as Unilever as well as SME’s – in India, UK, Spain and other European countries.

In the last 6 years within academia he has collaborated extensively in diverse work cultures across the world and forged partnerships. He is passionate about frugal diagnostics and was part of two such projects, a A UK-India Newton project relating to detection of co-selectors of AMR, and (ii) was coordinator of ARREST-TB, a £4.5M multilateral (UK, India, Russia, Italy and Spain) project to develop TB diagnostics for resource-limited settings. He is the founder of Help to Breathe (with the mission to help hospitals in India during the current COVID-19 crisis) and Nellikani (with the mission to fight hunger in rural India).