Rahul Roy
rahulroy (at) iisc.ac.in
Current Position
Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering,
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India Sep 2018 - present
Associate Faculty, Center for BioSystems Science and Engineering,
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India Dec 2015 - present
Education
PhD, Biophysics and Computational Biology
School of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign,IL April 2007
B Tech, Biotechnology and Biochemical Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, India May 2001
Previous Work and Teaching Experience
Principal Investigator
Assistant Professor Chemical Engineering, IISc, Bangalore, India Sep 2012-Sep 2018
Intermediate Fellow, Wellcome Trust - DBT India Alliance Sep 2013 - Sep 2018
Associate Faculty, Molecular Biophysics Unit, IISc, Bangalore, India Sep 2012-Sep 2018
Post Doctoral Fellow
Research Associate, Sunney Xie Lab, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Jun 2011-Aug 2012
Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Post Doctoral Fellow, S. Xie Lab, Harvard Univ Jun 2008- May 2011
Taekjip Ha Lab, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), IL Jun 2007 – Sept 2007
Graduate Research Assistant
Taekjip Ha Lab, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), IL May 2002 - May 2007
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Course Title: ‘Physical Biology: From Single Molecules to Systems Biology’
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), IL January 2006 - April 2006
Course Title: ‘Advanced Electronics Lab’
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), IL January 2002 - April 2002
Visiting Student Research Fellow
Tate Institute for Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai, India May 2000 - July 2000
Research Fellow
BREF-BioTEK Institute, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, India May 1999 - July 1999
Awards and Highlights
Wellcome Trust / DBT Intermediate Fellowship, India (2013)
Innovative Young Biotechnologist Award, Department of Biotechnology, India (2013)
Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Postdoctoral Fellowship, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA ( 2008-11)
Biophysics Grant Fellowship, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL (2001-02)
Visiting Students Research Program Fellow, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India (2000)