Meera Ramaswamy

Hi!

I am Meera Ramaswamy (she/her), and you can find out more about my research here!

I am a Princeton Centre for Complex Materials postdoctoral fellow in the Prof. Sujit Datta lab. I did my undergraduate studies in Engineering Physics at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB) and my PhD in Physics at Cornell University. During my PhD I studied the rheology and microstructure of shear thickening fluids (the physics behind people walking on cornstarch and water!). I am currently interested in understanding bacterial growth and motility in complex environments.

Outside the lab, I enjoy reading, Bharatanatyam (a classical Indian dance form), hiking, swimming, and solving sudokus. I started baking during the pandemic and now enjoy trying recipes that require a high degree of precision but also have a high failure rate.

Timeline

Honors and Awards

Fall 2022 Princeton Center for Complex Materials Postdoctoral Fellow, Princeton University

October 2021 Rising Stars in Soft and Biological Matter presenter, University of Chicago

October 2020 Soft Matter for All Workshop, early career presenter, Princeton University
& University of Delaware MRSEC

Summer 2017 Dr. V. Ramachandra Rao Summer Fellow, Department of Physics, Cornell University

Summer 2016 Dr. V. Ramachandra Rao Summer Fellow, Department of Physics, Cornell University

Summer 2013 S. N. Bose Scholar, Indo-US Science and Technology Forum

Summer 2012 Indian Academy of Sciences Summer Research Fellowship

2009-2010 Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana (KVPY) Fellowship