ABOUT ME
I always wanted to be a physicist but growing up in a middle income family in India means that job prospects take first priority, so I did the balancing act of studying Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology in the picturesque north-eastern city of Guwahati. There I pursued my research interests independently and took special interest in thermodynamics and nanotechnology. These interests led me to a research internship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States and I fell in love with the city of Boston. There working with Prof. Ali Khademhosseini I performed experimental and computational studies optimising the mechanical microenvironment of cells cultured in microfluidic devices for applications in Tissue Engineering. It was here that I also realised the important role engineers can play in medical technology.
Fascinated by the research environment in Boston, I started my doctoral studies in 2008 at the department of biomedical engineering in Boston University. I joined the biological physics group of Prof. Matthias Schneider in Oct 2009 where I provided the first evidence of two dimensional shock waves propagating along lipid interfaces. As part of my thesis I also established the biological relevance of this new phenomenon by demonstrating its coupling to local physicochemistry and enzymatic activity. Having obtained my doctorate in Jan 2014 I continued to work in the Biological Physics group at Boston University before joining the Oxford Centre for Drug Delivery Devices (OxCD3) as a Post-Doctoral researcher in June 2015. At OXCD3 I investigated the bio-effects of shock waves and ultrasound for applications in drug delivery and neuromodulation, and going deeper into dynamic and non-equilibrium interactions between light, sound, and matter. In 2019 I joined the Rosalind Franklin Institute where I worked toward building advanced photonics and acoustic technologies to undertand the phenomenon of sonoluminescence.
Since April 2021, I am working on an exciting new project of my own, culminating all that I have learned in neuroscience, physics, optics, acoustics, thermodynamics, and material science over the past 13 years.
When not thinking about science I am still interested in light, sound, and action in the form of photography, music, free style dancing, archery, and well, anime.
I always wanted to be a physicist but growing up in a middle income family in India means that job prospects take first priority, so I did the balancing act of studying Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology in the picturesque north-eastern city of Guwahati. There I pursued my research interests independently and took special interest in thermodynamics and nanotechnology. These interests led me to a research internship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States and I fell in love with the city of Boston. There working with Prof. Ali Khademhosseini I performed experimental and computational studies optimising the mechanical microenvironment of cells cultured in microfluidic devices for applications in Tissue Engineering. It was here that I also realised the important role engineers can play in medical technology.
Fascinated by the research environment in Boston, I started my doctoral studies in 2008 at the department of biomedical engineering in Boston University. I joined the biological physics group of Prof. Matthias Schneider in Oct 2009 where I provided the first evidence of two dimensional shock waves propagating along lipid interfaces. As part of my thesis I also established the biological relevance of this new phenomenon by demonstrating its coupling to local physicochemistry and enzymatic activity. Having obtained my doctorate in Jan 2014 I continued to work in the Biological Physics group at Boston University before joining the Oxford Centre for Drug Delivery Devices (OxCD3) as a Post-Doctoral researcher in June 2015. At OXCD3 I investigated the bio-effects of shock waves and ultrasound for applications in drug delivery and neuromodulation, and going deeper into dynamic and non-equilibrium interactions between light, sound, and matter. In 2019 I joined the Rosalind Franklin Institute where I worked toward building advanced photonics and acoustic technologies to undertand the phenomenon of sonoluminescence.
Since April 2021, I am working on an exciting new project of my own, culminating all that I have learned in neuroscience, physics, optics, acoustics, thermodynamics, and material science over the past 13 years.
When not thinking about science I am still interested in light, sound, and action in the form of photography, music, free style dancing, archery, and well, anime.
