Rate My Professor Aritra Chatterjee

Aritra Chatterjee serves as Assistant Professor in the Jyoti and Bhupat Mehta School of Health Sciences and Technology at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, where he leads research at the intersection of mechanics and biology. His primary academic interests encompass biomechanics, mechanobiology, and mechanics of soft materials, with specific focus on multiscale tissue biomechanics, cell mechanobiology, bioinspired and biomimetic materials. Chatterjee obtained his PhD in Bioengineering from the Indian Institute of Science Bangalore between 2016 and 2021, earning the prestigious Institute Gold Medal for the best PhD thesis in the academic year 2021-22. He holds a B.E. in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, completed in 2016. Following his doctorate, he conducted postdoctoral research at Purdue University in the Biomedical Engineering department from 2022 to 2023, investigating multiscale biomechanics ranging from atomic force microscopy to tissue mechanics.

Chatterjee's scholarly contributions include key publications such as 'Stress fiber growth and remodeling determines cellular morphomechanics under uniaxial cyclic stretch' in Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology (2022), which explores how stress fibers influence cell mechanics under cyclic loading; 'Mechanical characterization of a woven multi-layered hyperelastic composite laminate under uniaxial loading' in Journal of Composite Materials (2021, co-first author), detailing the behavior of hyperelastic composites; 'Role of fiber orientations in the mechanics of bioinspired fiber reinforced elastomers' in Soft Robotics (2020), examining fiber effects in elastomers; and 'TGF-β induces changes in breast cancer cell deformability' in Physical Biology (2018), linking growth factors to cancer cell mechanics. His work, cited over 250 times per Google Scholar, advances understanding in biomedical engineering, particularly in cellular and tissue responses to mechanical cues, with implications for bioinspired materials and health technologies.