Shamit Shrivastava

Biography

Shamit graduated with BTech in Mechanical Engineering in 2008 from the Indian Institute of Technology, India. For his undergraduate project he spent the summer and the winter of 2007 at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, USA. There working with Prof. Ali Khademhosseini he performed experimental and computational studies optimising the mechanical microenvironment of cells cultured in microfluidic devices for applications in Tissue Engineering.

Shamit started his doctoral studies in 2008 at the department of biomedical engineering in Boston University. He joined the biological physics group of Prof. Matthias Schneider in Oct 2009 where he provided the first evidence of two dimensional shock waves propagating along lipid interfaces. As part of his thesis he also established the biological relevance of this new phenomenon by demonstrating its coupling to local physicochemistry and enzymatic activity. Having obtained his doctorate in Jan 2014 Shamit continued to work in the Biological Physics group at Boston University before joining the Oxford Centre for Drug Delivery Devices (OxCD3) as a Post-Doctoral researcher in June 2015 investigating the bio-effects of Shockwaves for applications in drug delivery. Shamit is currently working at the Rosalind Franklin Institute developing new diagnostic devices based on the interaction of light and sound.

Academic Posts and Affiliations

• Senior Researcher, Rosalind Franklin Institute

Selected Honors and Awards

• 2014, Student Member Acoustical Society of America
• 2010, Cross-disciplinary Training in Nanotechnology for Cancer (XTNC) Fellowship, Boston University
• 2008, Dean’s Fellowship, College of Engineering, Boston University
• 2007, Screening Committee Member, MIT SLOAN Global Indus Technovators Awards