Student Details

Divya Jindal has enrolled at the IITB Monash Research Academy to advance her career in resolving unmet needs in the nanotechnology sector. She joined the academy with the goal of contributing to the understanding and exploration of the self-assembly behavior of nanoparticle-lipid complexes as well as the study of their interfacial transport properties in bulk and 2D geometry. At the IITB-Monash Research Academy, she is pursuing her Ph.D. under the guidance of Prof. Sunita Srivastava (IITB) and Prof. Murali Sastry (Monash University) on Bioinspired assembly in model nanoparticle-membrane systems for investigating nanoscale interaction. She has a bachelor's and master's degree in Biotechnology from Amity University and JIIT Noida, respectively. She has been involved in various research projects throughout her academic career and is a gold medallist in 2022 (JIIT). She carried out her Bachelor’s dissertation at Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, and worked on genetics which involved analyzing the overexpression of biomarkers involved in the amyloidogenic pathway leading to Alzheimer’s disease and cloning IL6R in the pGEMT vector. She was selected for DBT Marine and Synthetic Biology Training to understand the fundamental engineering concepts applicable to biological engineering and received hands-on training with computational and experimental synthetic biology, practically working on a specific example taken from a marine organism, biosafety, and biosecurity aspects of synthetic biology. In her Master’s, she shifted to nanotechnology and fabricated nanoemulsions with standard extracts of Withania somnifera and Bacopa monnieri. During her research career, she attained a good number of publications (Research papers, Review papers, and Book chapters) as well as research funding. She enjoys cooking healthy meals, poetry, listening to random music that calms her mind, exploring new places, and planning her upcoming future when she is outside of her lab.