l am currently a post-doctoral research associate at the University of Glasgow and a PhD from the Department of Mechanical Engineering (Solid Mechanics and Design), Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IITK), India (2021). I obtained my M. Tech. in Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology Shibpur (IIEST Shibpur), India (2015), and B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering at the West Bengal University of Technology (WBUT), India (2012).

My research interests include Stability Analysis, Continuum Mechanics, Non-linear FEM, Finite-Difference Method, Soft Solids, and Magneto/Electro-hyper-elasticity.

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Prizes, awards & distinctions

• 2011: The Best Applied Technology Project Award in the Eastern India Science and Engineering Fair (National Council of Science Museums (NCSM), Ministry of Culture Govt. of India)

Research fellowships

• 2022 - 2024: EPSRC Fellowship
• 2015 - 2020: Visvesvaraya Fellowship, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Govt. of India
• 2015 - 2020: Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Govt. of India

Selected international presentations

• 2020: American Physical Society, March Meeting (Denver, Colorado, US)
• 2021: American Physical Society, March Meeting (Virtual meet)
• 2021: Invited lecture at FIVE DAYS WORKSHOP ON NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF FLUID-STRUCTURE INTERACTIONS (Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India)
• 2022: EPSRC Poster Presentation (University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, UK)

Principal Investigator

• Dr Prashant Saxena

Research Collaborators:

• Dr Andrew McBride
• Dr Paul Steinmann
• Dr Luca Heltai
• Dr Zhaowei Liu