Richa Karmakar, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Indian Institute Of Technology Madras
Email: rkarmakar@iitm.ac.in
Office: Room No 322, BT Block-II, IIT Madras.
Ph: 044-2257-4145 (O)
Research Interests:
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Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic chemotaxis
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Microfluidics-based lab-on-chip technologies for disease diagnosis
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Biophysical aspect of cell-cell and cell-material interaction
Background
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Assistant Professor Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India (May 2022-Present).
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DBT/Wellcome Trust India Alliance Early Career Fellow Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India.
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Assistant Project Scientist Physics University of California San Diego, CA, USA (April 2021-December 2021)
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Post-Doctoral Fellow Physics University of California San Diego, CA, USA (April 2016-April 2021)
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Ph.D. Chemical Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India.
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M. Tech Food Technology & Biochemical Engineering Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India.
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B. Tech Biotechnology Heritage Institute of Technology, Kolkata, India.
Teaching Experience & Courses
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Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India
May 2022-Present
Courses:
BT5041: Downstream Processing (Core)
BT6330: Physics of Cells (Elective)
BT1010: Life sciences (Core)
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University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA
Oct 2019-Dec 2019
Lecturer, Department of Physics.
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University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA
Jan 2021-Mar 2021
Guest Lecturer, Department of Biology.
Patent
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Richa Karmakar, Subramaniam Pushpavanam, Diksha Mall, Saranya Gopalakrishnan. (2024) ‘Method and device for bacterial detection and antimicrobial susceptibility testing’, Indian Patent Application No. 202441003092. (Applied)
Grants, Fellowships and Awards
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Travel Grant; 76th APS-Division of Fluid Dynamics
2023
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New Faculty Seed Grant, IIT Madras
2023
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SERB- Start-up Research Grant (SRG)
2023
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New Faculty Initiation Grant, IIT Madras
2022
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DBT/Wellcome Trust (UK) India Alliance Early Career Fellowship (Awarded)
2021
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Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India and Wellcome Trust (UK) Scholarship for ‘Scientific Teaching Short Course’
2020
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Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning, Yale University, CT, USA
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'Excellence in thesis work' best Ph.D. thesis Award; IIT Bombay
2016
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R. G. Manudhane Ph.D. excellence award, most outstanding Ph.D. thesis, Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Bombay.
2016
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International Travel Grant; Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India
2015
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International Travel Grant; Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India
2015
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Foreign travel fellowship, IIT Bombay
2014
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Travel Grant; Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Okinawa, Japan.
2014
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Eighth National Symposium on Complex Fluids (CompFlu-2014); Best Poster
2014
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Travel Grant; Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Okinawa, Japan.
2013
Invited Talks
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Soft Matter forum, IIT Hyderabad
Feb 19, 2024
Online
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Workshop on Innovation, Heritage Institute of Technology
Jan 25-30, 2024,
Kolkata, India
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Workshop on Advanced Microscopy and Imaging, Organized by BITs Pilani and Evident
Oct 19-21, 2023
Goa, India
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IIT Pals
Jul 7, 2023
Chennai, India
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Aditi Simha Memorial Symposium 2023, Organized by IIT Madras
Mar 31- Apr 1, 2023
Chennai, India