Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, IISc
Ph.D. & MS (Mechanical Engineering), University of California, Berkeley
M.Sc.& B.Sc. (Physics), University of Pune
Contact: namrata@iisc.ac.in
Research interests: Biomechanics, Mechanobiology, Collective cell migration, Failures in soft materials, Insects cutting mechanics, Corneal Biomechanics.
Post doctoral fellow
B.Tech, Biotechnology, VIT Vellore
M.Tech, Biotechnology, Anna University
PhD Mechanobiology, National University of Singapore
Contact: deepikasingh@iisc.ac.in
Research interests: Endothelium on chip
PhD Scholar
M.Tech (Mechanical Engineering), IIT Roorkee.
B.Tech (Mechanical Engineering ), Aditya Engineering College (JNTUK), AP.
Contact: santoshkr@iisc.ac.in
Research interests: Mechanics of collective cell migration
PhD Scholar
M. Tech (Mechanical Engineering), MANIT Bhopal.
Contact: sanjaysain@iisc.ac.in
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sanjay-sain-23674519a/
Research interests: Mechanobiology of cell under fluid shear flow
PhD Scholar
B. Tech (Aerospace Engineering), IIST, Thiruvananthapuram.
Contact: shantanusaha@iisc.ac.in
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shantanu~saha/
Research interests: Biomechanics, musculoskeletal modeling, crash biomechanics, human factors in space
M. Tech (Research) Student, Department of Mechanical Engineering, IISc
B.Tech (Mechanical Engineering), GBPUAT, Pantnagar
Contact: yogesht@iisc.ac.in
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yogesh-thapliyal-bb6186237/
Research interests: Wrinkling Instability Fiber Reinforced Soft Tissues, Corneal Biomechanics.
M. Tech Student, Department of Mechanical Engineering, IISc
B.Tech (Mechanical Engineering), VJTI, Mumbai
Contact: prafulgavit@iisc.ac.in
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/praful-gavit-89640a177/
Project Associate - I
MSc Biotechnology, Banaras Hindu University
Contact: mahimndave@iisc.ac.in
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mahimn-dave-666b8818a/
Research interests: Cellular mechanobiology and endothelial mechanobiology using on-chip models
Research Intern (Research Award 2024-2025 Awardee)
MSc Zoology, Farook College(Autonomous), Calicut
PhD, University of Calicut
Contact: linshinat@uoc.ac.in
Research interests: Cancer mechanobiology
Vaishnavi Rathod
JRF student
M.Sc. Life sciences, IISc, Biochemistry department, 2023-2025.
B.Sc. Chemistry Botany Zoology GFCW, Vijayanagar, Mysuru 2019-2022.
Contact- vaishnavir@iisc.ac.in
Research Interests - Mechanobiology and collective cell migration under stretch
Mayank Gupta
Project Associate
B.Tech - Aeronautical Engineering, Manipal Institute of Technology, Karnataka
Contact - mayankgupta1@iisc.ac.in
LinkedIn- https://www.linkedin.com/in/mayank-gupta-779876216
Research Interests - computational fluid dynamics
Alumni
Postdocs
Dr. K Venkatesan Iyer
Dr. Brijesh Verma
Dr.Nivedita Singh
Dr.Rashmi Shenoy
Dr.Vijay Anand D
Dr. Vinod Singh Thakur
Dr. Neha Paddillaya
PhD Students
Dr.Aritra Chatterjee (Presently Assistant Professor at BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad)
Dr.Ankur Kulkarni (Entrepreneur)
Dr. Anshul Shrivastava (Currently FEA Engineer at Exxon Mobil)
Dr. Lakshminath Kundanati (Assistant Professor - IIT Madras)
Dr.Anju R. Babu (Assistant Professor - NIT Rourkela)
Dr. Siddhartha Jaddivada
Dr. Neha Paddillaya
Project Staff and Interns
Abhijith Hegde
Achu Byju
Aditya Rane
Ahammad Shibil
Ajeeth Swaminathan
Akshay Jain
Anahitha Jayaram
Anthony Grisey
Ashwin Seetharaman
Chaitanya Gaikwad
Dhulika Ravinuthala
Dr. Nanditha Vinod Souringal ( MBBS intern )
Hemanth Jagannathan
Nandan Merchant
Nandini Ravi
Nikhil Pareekh
Pallavi Ramaswamy
Praduymn Agrawal
Pranav Khandelwal
Prasad Jayaram Shetty
Sameeksha Rao
Shirin Mirza
Shriya Rangaswamy
Vandya Juneja
Sushmitha Somagattu (MBBS Intern)
Vikram Somanna
Vidhi Priya
Akshar Rao
Yash Doshi
Aditya Bera
Master's Students
Lt.Cdr. Adarsh Kumar
Imnatoshi Jamir
Kalyani Uttamrao Ingale
Suvakash Dey
Vivek Sharma
Poorva Golatkar
M. Nagaraj
Mitesh Rathod
Naveen Kumar
Kiran Bekkari
Ashlin Augusty
Vamsi Krishna
Prasenjit Ghosh
Nimesh Chahare
Sushma SP
Rajesh Roshan