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5.05/4/2026

Encourages students to think creatively.

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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.