Curriculum Vitae
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Education
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2021: Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics, The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India
Thesis Title: Confined Polymers in Biological Contexts
Supervisors: Prof. Gautam I. Menon & Prof. Satyavani Vemparala - 2014: M.Sc. in Physics, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India
- 2012: B.Sc. in Physics, C.S.J.M. University, Kanpur, India
Experience
- 2023–Present: Postdoctoral Fellow, 3SR Lab, Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France
- 2022–2023: Research Associate, The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India
- 2022–2022: Research Visitor, The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India
- 2020–2021: Senior Project Associate, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, India
Conferences & Schools Attended
- The GFR (Groupe Français de Rhéologie) conference held in Marseille, France in October 2024.
- 3èmes Journées du GDR IDE held in Saint Martin d'Hères, France in June 2024.
- IMB Conference: Chromosome Territories & Nuclear Architecture, Mainz, Germany (2019).
- Mechano-Developmental Biology, Feb 2019 at Coorg, India.
- 7th Indian Statistical Physics Community Meeting, Feb 2019 at ICTS Bangalore, India.
- One-day symposium on Soft Matter, Jan 2019 at IIT Madras, Chennai, India.
- 6th Indian Statistical Physics Community Meeting, Feb 2018 at ICTS Bangalore, India.
- Complex Fluids - CompFlu - 2017, Dec 2017 at IIT Madras, Chennai, India.
- VIIIth Bangalore School of Statistical Physics, Jul 2017 at ICTS Bangalore, India.
- EMBO - Experimental and Theoretical approaches to cell mechanics, Apr 2017 at RRI and NCBS Bangalore, India.
- Complex Fluids - CompFlu - 2016, Dec 2016 at IIIT-Hyderabad, India.
- VIIth Bangalore School of Statistical Physics, Jul 2016 at ICTS Bangalore, India.
Talks & Poster Presentation
- Oral presentation titled "Collagen: structure and mechanics" in The GFR (Groupe Français de Rhéologie) conference held in Marseille in October 2024
- Oral presentation titled "The conformational phase diagram of charged polymers in the presence of attractive bridging crowders" in February 2024, at 3SR Lab, Grenoble, France.
- Poster presentation titled “The auxetic phenotype in mouse embryonic stem cells exiting pluripotency”. 2019 IMB Conference, IMB, Mainz, Germany, held in Oct 2019.
- Oral presentation titled “Polymer Conformations in confined and crowded environment near attractive surfaces”. Institute Seminar Day, IMSc, Chennai, India, held in Mar 2019.
- Oral presentation titled “The auxetic phenotype in mouse embryonic stem cells exiting pluripotency”. Computational Biology Group Annual Talk, IMSc, Chennai, India, held in Mar 2018.
Teaching Experience
- 2018: Teaching Assistant (TA) for "Soft Matter Physics Course" at The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, India.