{"id":625,"date":"2023-02-06T18:15:54","date_gmt":"2023-02-06T18:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/Neuro\/?page_id=625"},"modified":"2023-04-17T11:50:29","modified_gmt":"2023-04-17T11:50:29","slug":"about-vini","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.cense.iisc.ac.in\/neuroelectronics\/about-vini\/","title":{"rendered":"About Vini"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"625\" class=\"elementor elementor-625\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-0f43f82 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"0f43f82\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-f38882f\" data-id=\"f38882f\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-24a4c03 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"24a4c03\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-8cac70c\" data-id=\"8cac70c\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f163e0f elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"f163e0f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.10.2 - 29-01-2023 *\/\n.elementor-heading-title{padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title[class*=elementor-size-]>a{color:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-small{font-size:15px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-medium{font-size:19px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-large{font-size:29px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xl{font-size:39px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xxl{font-size:59px}<\/style><h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Hi There, I'm Vini,<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ca93e69 elementor-invisible elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"ca93e69\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInUp&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.10.2 - 29-01-2023 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#818a91;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#818a91;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(var(--color_11));\">I am the group leader of the NeuroElectronics group at CeNSE, IISc, Bangalore.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p>My research interests lie in using state-of-the-art technologies in materials science and engineering to address challenging problems in the field of neurosciences. The cross-disciplinary projects in this area that I have led range from developing photodetectors to stimulate blind retinal tissues; to creating nano-scaffolds for studying and engineering neural circuits in a dish.<\/p><p><span style=\"background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(var(--color_11));\">I believe that major challenges can be solved by the cross-pollination of ideas and skills from different disciplines.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(var(--color_11));\">Below you will find detailed info about my professional journey, past and present<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-b134623\" data-id=\"b134623\" 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data-id=\"b7f3785\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Prof. Vini Gautam<\/strong><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><strong>Contact<\/strong>: vini@iisc.ac.in<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-bbbd800 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"bbbd800\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-93af2bc\" data-id=\"93af2bc\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap 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data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9dc127e elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"9dc127e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Previous Appointments<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1007d62 elementor-invisible elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"1007d62\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;fadeIn&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"font_3\"><span class=\"color_11\">January 2020- October 2022: <\/span><span class=\"mr1 t-bold\"><span class=\"visually-hidden\">Lecturer (<\/span><\/span><span class=\"color_11\">Group leader \/ Assistant Professor) in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, <span class=\"t-14 t-normal\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\">University of Melbourne, Australia<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/p><p class=\"font_3\"><span class=\"color_11\">February 2018 \u2013 January 2020: ARC DECRA and Westpac Research Fellow at John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University (ANU), Canberra, Australia.<\/span><\/p><p class=\"font_3\"><span class=\"color_11\">January 2017 \u2013 January 2018: Research Fellow; Research School of Engineering, College of Engineering and Computer Science, ANU, Canberra, Australia.<\/span><\/p><p class=\"font_3\"><span class=\"color_11\">January 2016 \u2013 December 2016: Postdoctoral Fellow; John Curtin School of Medical Research, ANU, Canberra, Australia.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-0518c12 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default elementor-invisible\" data-id=\"0518c12\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInLeft&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-2cce304\" data-id=\"2cce304\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ffb35cd elementor-widget-divider--view-line elementor-widget elementor-widget-divider\" data-id=\"ffb35cd\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"divider.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-divider\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-divider-separator\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d0273ff elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"d0273ff\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Education<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-192fc85 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"192fc85\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"font_3\"><span class=\"color_11\">2010 \u2013 2014: Doctor of Philosophy (Materials Science) <\/span><\/p><p class=\"font_3\"><span class=\"color_11\">University: Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Bangalore, India.<\/span><\/p><p class=\"font_3\"><span class=\"color_11\">2007 \u2013 2010: Master of Science (Materials Science)<\/span><\/p><p class=\"font_8\"><span class=\"color_11\">University: Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Bangalore, India.<\/span><\/p><p class=\"font_3\"><span class=\"color_11\">2004 \u2013 2007: Bachelor of Science (Honours, Physics)<\/span><\/p><p class=\"font_8\"><span class=\"color_11\">University: University of Delhi, India.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-1a21f67 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default elementor-invisible\" data-id=\"1a21f67\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInLeft&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container 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class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Awards and Achievements<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-10e4ded elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"10e4ded\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul>\n<li>\n<div class=\"display-flex align-items-center\"><span class=\"mr1 t-bold\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\">Listed in 40 under 40 most influential Asian Australians in Australia (2020).<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>ACT Young Tall Poppy 2018, awarded by the Australian Institute of Policy and Science, in \u201crecognition of the achievements of Australia\u2019s outstanding young scientific researchers and communicators\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>Joint Winner of &#8220;Falling Walls Lab&#8221; (Australia) organised by the Australian Academy of Science (2017).&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Best Oral presenatation Award at the Australian Society for Medical Research&#8217;s New Investigator Forum (Canberra, 2017).<\/li>\n<li>Selected to participate in the Lindau Nobel Laureate meeting held in Germany (2017). Received a competitive travel grant from Science and Industry Endowment Fund-Australian Academy of Science (SIEF-AAS, Australia) to travel to Lindau.<\/li>\n<li>National Finalist (Australia) in the \u201cFameLabs\u201d competition organized by the British Council (2017).&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Travel Award to participate in the 25th Australasian Society of Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering Conference (2017).<\/li>\n<li>Awarded the University House Early Career Career Fellowship at the Australian National University (2017)<\/li>\n<li>Selection and Travel Award to participate in the 2015 Theo Murphy Australian Frontiers of Science for the theme \u2018Materials for 21st Century &#8211; from design to applications\u2019 (2015)<\/li>\n<li>Best Poster Presentation Award at JNCASR In-House Symposium, India (2011).&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Best Oral Presentation Award in International Conference on Chemistry of Materials, held in Cochin, India (2010).&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Best model\/design award in the International Genetically Engineered Machines (iGEM) competition, conducted by MIT, Cambridge (2007).&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Summer research fellowship award for undertaking summer project at the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, India (2007)<\/li>\n<li>Science Meritorious Award from University of Delhi, India for two years (2005-2007).&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a8c153b elementor-widget-divider--view-line elementor-widget elementor-widget-divider\" data-id=\"a8c153b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"divider.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-divider\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-divider-separator\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-de929cd elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default elementor-invisible\" data-id=\"de929cd\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInLeft&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-444650a\" data-id=\"444650a\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9810947 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"9810947\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Competitive Research Grants<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-23f1ee3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"23f1ee3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul class=\"font_8 color_11\"><li><p>University of Melbourne\u2019s FEIT platform interdisciplinary grant.<\/p><\/li><li><p>Manchester &#8211; Melbourne joint research fund.<\/p><\/li><li><p>NHMRC Ideas grant 2020 (CI-B)<\/p><\/li><li><p class=\"font_8\"><span class=\"color_11\">Australia-India Strategic Research Fund EMCR fellowship 2019, awarded by the Australian Academy of Science to visit Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.<\/span><\/p><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"font_8 color_11\"><li><p class=\"font_8\"><span class=\"color_11\">Australian Research Council\u2019s Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) for three years (2018-2020).<\/span><\/p><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"font_8 color_11\"><li><p class=\"font_8\"><span class=\"color_11\">Westpac Research Fellowship from Westpac Bicentennial Foundation, awarded in 2018 to only 2 early career researchers across Australia (2018-2022).<\/span><\/p><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"font_8 color_11\"><li><p class=\"font_8\"><span class=\"color_11\">Yulgilbar Alzheimer\u2019s Research Program (Australia) grant (2018, co-CI).<\/span><\/p><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"font_8 color_11\"><li><p class=\"font_8\"><span class=\"color_11\">Co-investigator in the project \u2018Your Health in Your Hands: Future Personalised Medical Technologies for a Sustainable and Effective Healthcare\u2019, which won funding in the inaugural ANU Grand Challenge Scheme (November 2017).<\/span><\/p><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"font_8 color_11\"><li><p class=\"font_8\"><span class=\"color_11\">Selected to participate in the Lindau Nobel Laureates meeting to be held in Germany (June 2017). Received a competitive travel grant from Science and Industry Endowment Fund-Australian Academy of Science (SIEF-AAS, Australia) to travel to Lindau.<\/span><\/p><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"font_8 color_11\"><li><p class=\"font_8\"><span class=\"color_11\">Travel Grant to participate in the 25th Australasian Society of Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering Conference (April 2017).<\/span><\/p><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"font_8 color_11\"><li><p class=\"font_8\"><span class=\"color_11\">Selection and Travel Grant by the Theo Murphy (Australia) fund from the Royal Society of London to participate in the 2015 Theo Murphy Australian Frontiers of Science for the theme \u2018Materials for 21st Century &#8211; from design to applications\u2019 (December 2015).<\/span><\/p><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"font_8 color_11\"><li><p class=\"font_8\"><span class=\"color_11\">Summer research scholarship for undertaking summer project at the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, India (June-August 2007).<\/span><\/p><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"font_8 color_11\"><li><p class=\"font_8\"><span class=\"color_11\">National examination based competitive scholarship from Ministry of Human Resource and Development, Government of India for undertaking both Masters and PhD degrees at JNCASR, India (2007-2013).<\/span><\/p><\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi There, I&#8217;m Vini, I am the group leader of the NeuroElectronics group at CeNSE, IISc, Bangalore.\u00a0 My research interests lie in using state-of-the-art technologies in materials science and engineering to address challenging problems in the field of neurosciences. The cross-disciplinary projects in this area that I have led range from developing photodetectors to stimulate &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cense.iisc.ac.in\/neuroelectronics\/about-vini\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">About Vini<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"no-sidebar","site-content-layout":"page-builder","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"disabled","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"disabled","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cense.iisc.ac.in\/neuroelectronics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/625"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cense.iisc.ac.in\/neuroelectronics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cense.iisc.ac.in\/neuroelectronics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cense.iisc.ac.in\/neuroelectronics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cense.iisc.ac.in\/neuroelectronics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=625"}],"version-history":[{"count":73,"href":"https:\/\/www.cense.iisc.ac.in\/neuroelectronics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1347,"href":"https:\/\/www.cense.iisc.ac.in\/neuroelectronics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/625\/revisions\/1347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cense.iisc.ac.in\/neuroelectronics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}