Neel Joshi is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and an affiliate in Bioengineering at Northeastern University. He completed his PhD at UC Berkeley in the lab of Matt Francis and a postdoc at Boston University in the lab of Mark Grinstaff before starting his independent academic career at Harvard University and then moving to Northeastern in January 2020. He is broadly interested in topics related to biologically inspired materials, protein engineering, self-assembly, and biointerfaces. His group works at the intersection of biomaterials science and synthetic biology.

During my PhD at JNCASR, India, I worked on Bioinspired Design Strategies pertaining to three primary aspects viz. Molecular Engineering, Molecular Biomimicry and Molecular Materials. Then I shifted gears to Living Materials by integrating Synthetic Biology, Materials Engineering and Nanotechnology at Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University. I specifically focus on Designing and Developing Sustainable Living Materials for Energy, Health and Environmental Applications, with a strong emphasis on Commercialization.

• NSF Idea Machine (Big Ideas) Grand Prize Winner
• World’s Top 35 Innovators Under 35, Technology Review, MIT
• Deep Tech Pioneer
• Gandhian Young Technological Innovation Award
• Semifinalist of MIT Water Innovation Prize
• Semifinalist of Harvard President’s Innovation Challenge
• Harvard Innovation Lab’s Venture Incubation Program
• Innovation Scholars In-Residence Program at Rashtrapati Bhawan (President’s House) by the President of India

Email: a.manjula-basavanna@northeastern.edu

(B.S. Simmons College)

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