Assistant Professor
Department of Biotechnology
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
TRAINING
Postdoc, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota, USA : 2018 - 2021
Postdoc, School of Dentistry, Oregon Health & Science University, USA : 2016 - 2018
EDUCATION
PhD, Centre for Nano Science & Engineering (CeNSE), Indian Institute of Science Bangalore
MTech in Nanomedical Sciences, Amrita Centre for Nanosciences & Molecular Medicine
BTech in Bioengineering, SASTRA University
HONORS & AWARDS
WISER Award 2023 - Women Involvement in Science & Engineering Research, Indo-German Science & Technology Centre (IGSTC)
Travel Award from IndiaBioscience, 15th Young Investigators' Meet (YIM), IIT Gandhinagar , Gujarat, 2023
NASI - Young Scientist Platinum Jubilee Award, The National Academy of Sciences India, 2022
Early Career Editorial Board member, ACS Biomaterials Science and Engineering, 2018-2021
AADR Hatton Award Finalist, American Association of Dental Research Conference, 2018
CIHR Postdoctoral Fellowship (declined), Canadian Institute of Health Research -Federal Funding Agency, 2016
Young presenter award (Bajpai-Saha Award), International Conference, BiTERM held in IIT Delhi, India, 2016
Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds Travel Award, BIF Germany, 2015
Young Researcher Award, Indo-German Symposium, Dresden, Germany, 2014
Bajpai-Saha Award, International Conference on Design of Biomaterials (BioMAT), Bangalore, India, 2012
DST fellowship - Master’s program in Nano Medical Sciences, Department of Science & Technology, Govt. of India, 2009-2011