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Soft materials, Soft actuators, Soft robotics, Soft sensors, Materials and processing, Smart materials, Hydrogels, Composites, Soft materials and systems, Fiber materials, Smart textiles, Medical devices, Biomedical engineering, Mechanotransduction, Biomicrofluidics, Mechanobiology, Biofabrication, Tissue Engineering
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Biography

I'm Hritwick Banerjee. I'm working as a Ph.D. student at the Institute of Materials, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. Before this, I was working as a Jr. Scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS), Germany (2019-20).

I was a Research Engineer at the Department of Biomedical Engineering, National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore (2015-19). Before this, I spent a brief stint as a Research Assistant at the Centre for Nano Science and Engineering (CeNSE) in the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India (2014-2015).

I graduated with a Master's Degree from the Dept. of Electrical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IIT GN), and IIT Kharagpur with a dissertation titled “Frequency driven alteration in cellular morphology during ultrasound pulsing in a microfluidic confinement” (2014).

My career and personal goal is to impact human healthcare and create translational products while positively influencing students’ lives for as long as possible.

My research interests lie at the intersection of broad areas, including soft functional materials, advanced manufacturing, machine intelligence, and solid mechanics, with applications in biotechnology and medical engineering.

I'm specifically interested in understanding and designing soft materials with unprecedented mechanical properties such as extremely tough and strong, ultra-sensitive to stimuli, programmable, biocompatible, and bioactive to interface humans and machine and their intelligence.

My life's vision is here: https://theinterviewportal.com/2020/12/20/soft-materials-researcher-interview/

Read my complete publications here: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=WIsoXsEAAAAJ&hl=en

Activities

Employment (2)

Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems: Stuttgart, Stuttgart, DE

2019-08-22 to 2020-09-30 | Jr. Scientist
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National University of Singapore: Singapore, Singapore, SG

2015-03-18 to 2019-08-21 | Sr. Research Engineer (Biomedical Engineering)
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Education and qualifications (4)

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne: Lausanne, VD, CH

2020-10-01 to present | Doctor of Philosophy (Materials Science & Engineering)
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Indian Institute of Science: Bangalore, Karnataka, IN

2014-11 to 2015-03 | Master of Science (Centre for Nano Science and Engineering)
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Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar: Ahmedabad, Gujarat, IN

2012-07-26 to 2014-08-02 | Master of Technology (Electrical Engineering)
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Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur: Kharagpur, West Bengal, IN

2013-08-01 to 2014-08-01 | Master of Technology (Mechanical Engineering)
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Professional activities (4)

European Materials Research Society: Strasbourg, FR

2024-05-30 | E-MRS Young Researcher Award (Smart textiles for human health and well-being)
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The European Optical Society Annual Meeting (EOSAM): Dijon, FR

2023-09-18 | Bühler best presentation award
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The Optica Advanced Photonics Congress: Maastricht, NL

2022-07-28 | Optica Student Paper Award
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IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation: Singapore, Singapore, SG

2017-05-31 | Soft Material Robot Challenge (SMRC) Award Finalist (Robot Challenges)
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Funding (4)

Highly integrated soft fibers for advanced sensing and actuation

2022-01 to 2025-12 | Grant
Swiss National Science Foundation (Bern, CH)
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HENA: Hydrogel-Matrix Expedited Nitinol Actuation

2019 to 2022 | Grant
Ministry of Education (Singapore, SG)
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Soft-sensing interfaces with multifunctional smart materials

2019 to 2022 | Grant
Cyber Valley Research Fund (Stuttgart, Stuttgart, DE)
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Biologically Inspired Artificial Tentacles for Transnasal Procedures

2015 to 2018 | Grant
Singapore Millennium Foundation (Singapore, SG)
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