Our group is interdisciplinary, and over the years has comprised of researchers with backgrounds in physics, biology, chemistry, mathematics and engineering. 
Postdoctoral Fellows
Jimreeves David
PhD (Fluid Mechanics), Indian Institute of Science; Postdoc, Weizmann Institute
jimreevesdm at ncbs.res.in
Harsh Jain
Simons Postdoc
PhD (Physics), Tata Institute of Fundamental Research; Postdoc (IISER Mohali)
harshj at ncbs.res.in
Naven Narayanan Venkatanarayanan
Simons Postdoc (Jointly with Sandeep Krishna)
PhD (Ecology, Evolution and Behavior), University of Minnesota

Nayan Chakraborty
Masters (Chemistry), University of Hyderabad
PhD (Biology), NCBS
nayanc at ncbs.res.in
Nishant Narayanasamy
Undergraduate (Biology), Azim Premji University
​PhD (Biology), NCBS
nishantn at ncbs.res.in
Graduate Students
Suresh Balanarayana
BTech (Mechanical Engineering), NITK
sureshb at ncbs.res.in
Jyoti Prasad "JP" Banerjee
Masters (Physics), University of Calcutta
jyotiprasad.xyz at gmail.com
Tanya Dhama
Masters (Physics), IIT Guwahati
tanyad at ncbs.res.in
Pallavi Dutta
Masters (Chemistry), JNU
pallavidutta at ncbs.res.in
Masters Students
Pathik Das
BS-MS (Physics), IISER Mohali
Nihal Ibrahim
BS-MS (Physics), IISER Mohali
Research Assistants
Shreya Mishra
BTech (Electronics), IIST Trivandrum
Keerthana 
Research Assistant (Undergraduate (Biology), Azim Premji University, Bangalore)
Undergraduates, Interns
Anand Varma Kanumuri
Undergraduate Thesis (SRM University, Amaravati) 
Pranav AC
Intern 
Visitors
Camila Vieira Lino da Costa
Visiting Graduate Student (Masters (Physics), IGC Gulbekian)
Shashi Thutupalli
Engineering - Physics - Biology
​Bangalore - Toronto - Goettingen - Princeton - Bangalore
shashi at ncbs.res.in
Lab Alumni
​Postdoctoral Fellows and Visitors
​
10. Manoj Kumar (2017-2025; Next; Faculty, Shiv Nadar University)
9. Abel Abraham (2024-2025; Next: PhD Student, MIT, USA) 
8.  Alakesh Upadhyaya (2024)
7. Siddhartha Mukherjee (2022 - 2023; Next: Faculty, IIT Kanpur)
6. Yoshiya Matsubara (2019 - 2023; Next: Postdoc: University of Chicago)
5. Sandeep Ameta (2019 - 2023; Next: Faculty, Ashoka University, Delhi)
4. Godwin Stephenson (2017 - 2022; Next: Postdoc, USA)
3. Pawan Nandakishore (2016 - 2017; Next Position: Insight Data Sciences Fellow, Boston)
2. Amit Chandra Vutha (2016 - 2018; Next Position: Faculty, Azim Premji University, Bangalore)
1. Jeffrey Phillipson (2017 - 2018; Next Position: PA Consulting, Cambridge UK)

PhD Students (The ADDA)

5. Nishant Narayanasamy
4. Nayan Chakraborty
3. Charuhansini Tvishamayi (Next: Postdoc, University of Cambridge, UK)
2. Anupam Singh (Next: Postdoc, MPI Dresden)
1. Harvey Devereux (Next: Postdoc, University of London)

Masters Students

7. Anisha Shastri (2024; Next position: PhD Student, University of Minnesota)
6. Chittaspandini Kulkarni (2023)
5. Yash Rana (2020; Next position: PhD Student, Harvard University)
4. Aditya Iyer (2020; Next position: PhD Student, IMPRS, Bonn)
3. Pratyush Kollepara (2019; Next Position: Intern, IMSc, Chennai)
2. Ashwini Krishna (2019; Next Position: PhD Student, Tel Aviv University)
1. Kushal Appilineni (2019; Next Position: PhD Student, UC Davis)

Research Fellows/Interns

​15. Priyanka Nehra
14. Aniruddha Kulkarni
13. Shambhavi Shuchi
12. ER Litralson​
11. Anand Varma Kanumuri
10. Suraj Bapu
9. Siddharth Sane (2022-2023; Next: Masters (Simon Fraser University))
8. Neha Gooty (2021 - 2023; Next: Masters (TU Munich))
7. Chandan Reddy (2018 - 2022; Next: PhD Student (Heidelberg))
6. Nithila MK (2018 - 2022; Next: Masters (Heidelberg))
5. Aniruddh Murali (2018 - 2021; Next: PhD Student (University of Southern Denmark)
4. Toshi Parmar (2019-2021; Next: PhD Student with Prof. Cristina Marchetti (UCSB))
3. Amit Nadig (2018 - 2021; Next: Masters in Physics (Bonn, Germany))
2. Vidhya Lakshmi (2017- 2019; Next: PhD Student (NUS, Singapore))
1. Shashwat Kumar (2016- 2019; Next: PhD Student (Virginia Tech, USA))

Undergraduate Theses (External students)

7. Abhishek Sethi (2018, BITS Pilani), Next position: Researcher, University of California, Berkeley
6. Shreyas Gopalakrishnan (2018, IISc Bangalore), Next position: PhD Student, Harvard University
5. Hans George Kaliaden (2017, IISc Bangalore) Next Position: Masters, Lund University
4. Bhavya Naga Teja (2017, IISc Bangalore) Next Position: Project Intern, IIT Mumbai
3. Anurag Limdi (2017, IISc Bangalore), Next position: PhD Student, Harvard University
2. Pranav Kantroo (2017, IISc Bangalore), Next position: PhD Student, Yale University
1. Arghyadip Mukherjee (2016, IISc Bangalore), Next position: PhD Student, MPI-PKS, Dresden

Short term interns

2024: Anand Kanumuri, Neel Krishna, Vishnu Lakshman, Tanzeel Ahmed, Sana Siroya, Pathik Das, Aadya Nageswaran
2023: Aarnav Jathanna, Jibin V, Ayesha Pasha
2019: Aditi Gopalan, PS Vishnuprasad, Pranav Sharma, Kalyani Ingale
2018: Chippy Matthew, Abhishek Sethi, Mansi Srivastava, Noor Al-Kazwini
2017: Animish Vaze, Bhaskar Kumawat
2016: Karthik CK, Chandrashekar, Sree Ram, Sharada Gopal, Aditya Hardikar, Veena Bhagavathi