Curriculum Vitae

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Education:

2009-2015       Ph.D. in Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

2007-2009       M.Sc in Physics , Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, Mumbai, India

2004-2007       B.Sc in Physics , University of Pune, Pune, India

Professional Experience:

2020-                Physics of Living Systems Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Physics
                          Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

2016-2019       Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Physics
                          Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
                         
2015-2016       Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Physics
                          Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

Awards

  • Anil Kumar Memorial Medal for Best Ph.D. Thesis in Experimental Physics, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science (2016)
  • European Physical Society (EPS) Best Poster Prize, 9th Liquid Matter Conference, Lisbon, Portugal (2014)
  • Best Poster Award, 3rd HOPE Meeting, Tokyo, Japan (2011)
  • All India Rank 5 in the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) – Physics (2009)
  • Selected by the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India to participate in the 58th Lindau Meeting of Nobel Laureates and Students in Lindau, Germany (2008)
  • National Graduate Physics Examination (NGPE) Gold Medal (2007)
  • V. Raman Prize for Best Entry in Experimental Skills in the nationwide Talent Search Programme organized by the Indian Physics Association (IPA) (2005)

Grants and Fellowships

  • Physics of Living Systems (PLS) Postdoctoral Fellowship (2020)
  • Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) Cross-Disciplinary Postdoctoral Fellowship (2016)
  • Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Fellowship, CSIR, Government of India (2009)
  • Summer Project Fellowship, Indian Academy of Sciences (IAS) (2009)

Other Professional Activities

  • Referee for Nature Physics, Nature Microbiology, Nature Communications, PNAS, eLife, Current Biology, Physical Review X, Physical Review Letters, Scientific Reports, Physical Review E and Applied Mathematical Modelling