Dr. Rajeev Jain

Dr. Rajeev Jain is Senior Scientist of Forensic Toxicology at Central Forensic Science Laboratory, Ministry of Home Affairs, Govt. of India. He has more than 10 years of research experience in the field of analytical toxicology. During his tenure as Forensic Toxicologists, he has examined post-mortem samples of more than 300 medico-legal cases pertaining to drug overdose and poisoning. He has obtained his Ph.D. degree in Analytical Toxicology from CSIR-Indian Institute of Toxicology Research (India). His research work is focused on Development of simple, rapid, eco-friendly, cost-effective, sensitive and selective analytical methods based on microextraction techniques (such as SPME and DLLME etc.) for the determination of chemical analytes for forensic toxicological, clinical and environmental importance in various complex samples such as blood, saliva, plasma, urine, tissue etc. using GC-MS, GC-FID, HPLC, GC-ECD, TLC-image processing and digital image colorimetry technique. He is the first scientists to explore the possibility of coupling liquid-liquid microextraction techniques with widely used TLC technique for simple and quantitative analysis of drugs and poisons. He has published more than 30 research papers, review papers and book chapters in various referred journals on this subject. He was one of the first scientists to explore the possibility of coupling dispersive liquid-liquid microextraction with injector port silylation for rapid analysis of polar toxicants. He is also acting as invited reviewer in various referred journals such as Journal of Chromatography A, Trends in Analytical Chemistry, Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis, PLOS ONE etc. He is one on the editorial board of various open access journals of Toxicology and Chromatography. He has received more than 550 citations on his research work. His h-index is 14.