Postdoctoral Researcher

I’m Hritwick Banerjee. I am currently working as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems (MPI-DCTS), Department of Materials Systems Engineering, Germany (2026–present). I received my Ph.D. at the Institute of Materials, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland (2025). Before this, I was working as a Jr. Scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS), Germany (2019-20). I was a Research Engineer at the Department of Biomedical Engineering, National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore (2015-19). Before this, I spent a brief stint as a Research Assistant at the Centre for Nano Science and Engineering (CeNSE) in the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India (2014-2015). I graduated with a Master's Degree from the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IIT GN), and IIT Kharagpur with a dissertation titled “Frequency driven alteration in cellular morphology during ultrasound pulsing in a microfluidic confinement” (2014). My career and personal goal is to impact human healthcare and create translational products while positively influencing students’ lives for as long as possible. My research interests lie at the intersection of broad areas, including soft functional materials, advanced manufacturing, machine intelligence, and solid mechanics, with applications in biotechnology and medical engineering. I'm specifically interested in understanding and designing soft materials with unprecedented mechanical properties, such as extremely tough and strong, ultra-sensitive to stimuli, programmable, biocompatible, and bioactive to interface humans and machine and their intelligence. My life's vision is here: https://theinterviewportal.com/2020/12/20/soft-materials-researcher-interview/ Read my complete publications here: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=WIsoXsEAAAAJ&hl=en