I am a final year graduate student with Dr. Tapomoy Bhattacharjee at the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore. I work at the interface of soft matter biophysics, mechanobiology, and bioengineering.

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My PhD research pioneers an understanding of complex environments as active regulators of living matter across biological scales. To accomplish this, I engineer sophisticated 3D experimental platforms that mimic natural habitats — soil, mucus, tissues — to study cellular physiology, behavior, and identity across diverse mechano-chemical milieus. These efforts have yielded fundamentally unique insights on how mechanical and chemical cues act as selective pressures on growth, physically regulate cell division, alter motility patterns, dictate morphological transitions, and govern internal cellular states.

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My long-term interest is towards deciphering generalizable principles that capture how the mechano-chemical complexities of real-world habitats influence biological phenomena.​​