Team μBiD 

Garima Rani (PI)

Brief CV

• Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (August 2025-)

• Assistant Professor, IIIT-Delhi (Feb 2025-July 2025)

• HFSP Cross Disciplinary Fellow, Human Frontier Science Program, Institut für Mikrobiologie, FSU Jena, 2024- 2025

• HFSP Cross Disciplinary Fellow, Human Frontier Science Program , University of Luxembourg, 2021- 2023.

• PhD in Biological Physics, The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India, August 2015 - January 2021.

• M.Sc in Physics, University of Delhi, India, 2015.  

• B.Sc in Physics (Hons.), Hindu College, University of Delhi, India, 2013.

Grants, Awards & Funding

• PI: Global Research Partnership Grant (2026-27) [Exeter PI: Dr. Wolfram Moebius]

• PI: Consultancy Project, MedKern (2026-27).

• PI: New Faculty Seed Grant, IIT Delhi  (2026-28).

• India RISE Fellowship, Gupta-Klinsky India Institute, Johns Hopkins University (2026-27).

• Young Faculty Incentive Fellowship by IIT Delhi (2025 - 2028).

• PI: Inspire Faculty Research Grant, Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India (2025-2030).

• EMBO-EMBL travel grant (2023)

• Human Frontier Sciences Program (HFSP) Cross-Disciplinary Fellowship [Selected among top 9% of applicants worldwide] (2021-2025).

• EMBO-CNRS travel grant (2018).

• Junior Research Fellowshi and Senior Research Fellowship, IMSc Chennai, India (2015-2020).

• Qualified CSIR-UGC National Eligibility Test in Physical Science, Dept. of Higher Education. Govt. of India (2015).

• All India Post-Graduate Scholarship from Human Resource Development Group, India (2013).

• Inspire Scholarship for Higher Education (SHE) from Dept. of Science and Technology, Govt. of India (2010-2015).