Current Position
Gilbert A. Hegemier Professor, 2024 -present
Jacobs Faculty Scholar, 2023-present
Professor, 2020 - present
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA
Previous Positions
Associate Professor 2018-2020
Assistant Professor 2014-2018
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA
UC Berkeley Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow 2013-2014 University of California, Berkeley, CA
UCSD affiliations
Affiliate Faculty in Nanoengineering
Affiliate Faculty in Bioengineering
Affiliated Faculty Center for Circadian Biology
Affiliated Faculty Program in Materials Science and Engineering
Education
Ph. D. in Biological Sciences 2010, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY.
Thesis advisor: Prof. Ravi Iyengar
M.S. in Chemical Engineering 2005, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
B. Tech. in Chemical Engineering 2001, Osmania University, Hyderabad, India
Awards and Honors
Murray and Adylin Rosenblatt Endowed Lecturer in Applied Mathematics, 2024
Jacobs Faculty Scholar, July 2023
2021 Chancellors Award for Excellence in Postdoctoral Scholar Mentoring, Sep 2021
Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering, Class of 2021.
Mount Sinai Alumni Award for Achievement in Graduate Education. 2021.
Finalist for the 2020 Chancellors Award for Excellence in Postdoctoral Scholar Mentoring, Sep 2020
Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers 2019
Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering (CMBE) Rising Star Junior Faculty Award 2018
Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award 2017
Army Research Office Young Investigator Award 2016
Sloan Research Fellow in Computational and Molecular Evolutionary Biology 2015-2017
Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Award 2015
UCSD EDI Excellence award to New Faculty 2015
Editorial Boards
Editorial Advisory Board member, Journal of General Physiology, 2019-present
Editorial Board Member, Biophysical Journal 2020-2026
Associate Editor, PLoS Computational Biology
Editor-in-Chief, The Biophysicist, 2023-
Contact information
Padmini Rangamani
Professor
Department of Mechanical Aerospace Engineering, SME 344G
Jacobs School of Engineering
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, CA 92093-0411
Office Phone (858) 534-4734
Email: prangamani@ucsd.edu