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Briefly, I am from Bangalore, born and brought up, and I have been quite passionate about science and technology from a very young age. My case is slightly different from my peers as I am challenged with hemiparesis due to Cerebral Palsy.  My personal experiences and the lack of precise understanding of many such neurological disorders in the field motivated me to consider a research career in neuroscience. I received Prime Minister's Research Fellowship from the Government of India for my doctoral research. Currently, I am pursuing my PhD in Neuroscience at Motor Control Lab under the guidance of Prof. Aditya Murthy and Prof. Ashitava Ghosal at the Center for Neuroscience, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Here, I am working on understanding the underlying neural strategies in regards to control and co-ordination of human arm movements.  One of my biggest dreams is to understand how our human brain functions and precisely as to how it plans and executes movements. Through my research on the motor circuits involved in the brain I would like to contribute to our society by facilitating and assisting the lives of people affected by disorders such as stroke, cerebral palsy and Parkinson's disease. 

I obtained my B.Tech degree in Aerospace Engineering and M.Tech degree in Applied Mechanics (Biomedical Engineering) at Indian Institute of Technology Madras . I was the recipient of Dhirubhai Ambani Undergraduate Scholarship, by Reliance Foundation, for outstanding academic performance among the physically challenged candidates in higher secondary school examination. I pursued my master's research at Neuromechanics lab headed by Prof. Varadhan SKM where I worked on understanding the lack of control of individuated finger movements in humans also known as kinematic finger enslavement and the effect of wrist posture on such a relationship.

You could find my research profile at -

1) Google Scholar Page 

2) Research Gate

3) Scopus Profile    

If you are interested to know more about my personal life, do check out my blog page. 

Selected Work

• Niranjan Chakrabhavi, Varadhan SKM, Ashitava Ghosal, Aditya Murthy, Internal feedback enables rapid trajectory control during goal-directed finger and whole-arm reaching movements. bioRxiv, 2023.08.09.552575 (2023). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.08.09.552575

• Niranjan Chakrabhavi, Puneet Singh, Abhishek Lenka, Albert Stezin, Ketan Jhunjhunwala, Pramod Kumar Pal, Ashitava Ghosal, Aditya Murthy "Trajectory control of goal directed reaching movements and its implications in Ataxia and Parkinson’s Disease" Neuroscience 2023, Society for Neuroscience, Washington DC, USA. Poster: 2023-S-10398-SfN  

• Niranjan Chakrabhavi, Varadhan SKM, Ashitava Ghosal, Aditya Murthy. "A geometric approach to distinguish feedforward planning from feedback control" Neural Control of Movement 2022, Dublin, Ireland. 

• Chakrabhavi, Niranjan, and S. K. M. Varadhan. "Wrist Posture Does Not Influence Finger Interdependence." Journal of Applied Biomechanics 35.6 (2019): 410-417. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1123/jab.2019-0010   

• Rachaveti D, Chakrabhavi N, Shankar V, SKM V. 2018. Thumbs up: movements made by the thumb are smoother and larger than fingers in finger-thumb opposition tasks. PeerJ 6:e5763. DOI: https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5763 

• Niranjan C S and Varadhan SKM. "Interdependence of finger movements during flexion, extension and neutral position of the wrist" Neuroscience 2017, Society for Neuroscience, Washington DC, USA. Poster: 2017S13995SfN

• Niranjan C S, Vaisakh Shankar, Dhanush R, Varadhan SKM. "Kinematic study of thumb touching phalanges" Indian National Conference on Applied Mechanics (INCAM) 2017, Allahabad, India.

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