I obtained my undergraduate degree from NITK Surathkal, India in Civil Engineering, with K.S.Babu Narayan as my final year project supervisor. The title of the project was Application of Principal Component Analysis in Civil Engineering. 

After my undergrad, I moved to the University of Stuttgart, Germany for my master's degree, where I pursued the Computational Mechanics of Materials and Structures (COMMAS) course. I worked on my thesis with Manfred Bischoff with the title Spatial Isogeometric Beam Elements. I worked part-time at the Fraunhofer IPA, Stuttgart where I contributed to the design and analysis of leg prosthetics based on the data from the Gait analysis.      

Inspired to work on biomathematics, I moved to the University of Glasgow, UK to work with Rene de Borst, and later with Martin Ruess and Nikolaj Gadegaard as supervisors. The title of my thesis was Experimental and numerical investigations of stress fibre reorientation in biological cells. 

Taking a break from academia, I worked in a rocket-building startup, located at IIT-Madras, India, Agnikul. I led the structural dynamics team and supported the rest of the structures team. I also developed computational codes for multi-variable optimisation of the trajectory of rockets as part of the mission design team. 

Realising that I enjoy the academic research environment more, I started a postdoctoral position at the University of Birmingham in the summer of 2021. Working with Fabian Spill who leads the systems-mechanobiology group within the Mathematical Biology and Healthcare research division at the School of Mathematics, at the University of Birmingham, UK, I developed a continuum mechanics model to study the effect of mechanical stimuli on endothelial cell-cell interaction.

Currently, I am as a research associate at the University College London  (UCL) in the Department of Imaging working with Simon Walker-Samuel on developing patient specific mechanics-based models for diabetic macular oedema. 

• Seminars/Conferences organised

  • Mechanical Modelling in Health and Disease Workshop, 2022

  • Applied Mathematics Seminar series (2021-2023)

  • Postdoctoral/Early Career Association (PERCAT) Postdoctoral Researcher Conference, 2022 

• Supervision 

  • Co-supervisor of PhD student Margherita Boticelli (Expected completion in 2025)

  • Supervision of masters project

  • Supervisor of a summer undergraduate student project

• Teaching experience 

  • Mechanics of structure, Structural Dynamics, Mechanics of Solids     (with Abaqus CAE), Numerical Methods (with Matlab)

• Outreach activities

  • Research presentation to Members of Parliament (MPs) in the UK parliament as a finalist of STEM for Britain,2022 

  • Hosted 3 high school students for a week as part of the in2scienceUK volunteer programme

  • Acting as a STEM ambassador

  • University Ambassador for Commonwealth Games (2022), Birmingham, UK.

• Leadership training

  • Attending professional course Leading and Managing Your Academic Team at the University of Birmingham