Dr. Anastasiia Tukova is a Macquarie University Lighthouse Fellow and a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Nanosensors Group led by Professor Yuling Wang. She specializes in nanosensor technology, with a focus on engineering plasmonic nanostructures and integrating surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) into biomedical devices. Her research advances precision diagnostics by developing innovative approaches for molecular profiling and the detection of low-abundance analytes. Currently, her projects focus on SERS-based ultrasensitive profiling of proteins, nucleic acids, extracellular vesicles (EVs), and circulating tumor cells (CTCs).