Sree is a final year graduate student with Dr. Tapomoy Bhattacharjee at the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore. He works at the interface of soft matter biophysics, mechanobiology, and bioengineering.

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Sree studies how complex 3D environments regulate biological matter across scales. To accomplish this, he engineers sophisticated 3D experimental platforms that mimic native habitats — soil, mucus, tissues — to study cellular physiology, behavior, and identity across diverse external milieus.

 

His PhD work with Dr. Tapomoy Bhattacharjee has yielded fundamentally unique insights on how generic physico-chemical cues act as selective pressures on growth, regulate cellular division, alter motility patterns, dictate morphological transitions, and govern internal cellular states. These efforts have helped advance a conceptualization of the physical microenvironment as an active regulator of living systems.

 

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