Principal Investigator

Research and Teaching Experience

Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Science and Technology, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India (09/2024 - Present)

Assistant Professor, Department of Biosciences and Biomedical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Indore, India (01/2022 - 08/2024)

Research Training

Postdoctoral Associate, 3D Bioprinting Lab, Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN, USA (05/2021 - 12/2021)

Postdoctoral Associate, Minnesota Dental Research Center for Biomaterials and Biomechanics, University of Minnesota Dental School, Minneapolis, MN, USA (10/2018 - 04/2021)

Postdoctoral Research Associate, Regenerative Medicine Labs, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA (01/2017 - 09/2018)

Ph.D., Materials Research Center, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India (08/2011 - 12/2016)

Research Intern, Helmholtz Institute for Biomedical Engineering, RWTH Aachen University, Germany (02/2014 - 04/2014)

Honors & Awards

Two-month Visiting Fellowship from the Technische Universität Dresden (TUD), Germany (05/2024 - 07/2024)

Young Scientist Research Award (YSRA) in healthcare from the Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences (BRNS), Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), Govt. of India (04/2024)

Dr. R. L. Thakur Memorial Award from Indian Ceramic Society (12/2021)

Ramalingaswami Re-entry fellowship awarded by the Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India (03/2021)

Co-Investigator for a Translational COVID-19 grant awarded by the Clinical and Science Translational Institute, University of Minnesota (08/2020 - 04/2021)

Best Ph.D. thesis awarded from the Department of Materials Research Center, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (2017)

CSIR (JRF/SRF) All India Rank of 62 and GATE All India Rank of 64 in the Discipline of Chemistry

University topper at Bachelors (2009) and Masters (2011) in the Discipline of Chemistry