CORE FACULTY

VINI GAUTAM

Assistant Professor

Room No: FF 06
Email: vini@iisc.ac.in
Phone:
Group Webpage: NeuroElectronics Lab

Education
• BSc. Physics University of Delhi (2007)
• M.S.-Ph.D. Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (2014)

Experience
I. Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, 2022- present
II. Lecturer (Assistant Professor), University of Melbourne, Australia, 2020 – 2022
III. Research Fellow (Australian Research Council’s DECRA fellow), Australian National University, 2017-2020
IV. Postdoctoral Fellow, Australian National University, Australia, 2014-2017

Research Interests
• Neural interfaces
• Bionic vision
• Neuroprosthetics
• Biomaterials
• Optoelectronics

Research Area
Neuroengineering, neural interfaces, neural tissue engineering, nanobiotechnology, bioelectronics, biomaterials

Key Publications (*from outside CeNSE)

Gautam, V., Rand, D., Hanein, Y., & Narayan, K. S. (2014). A polymer optoelectronic interface provides visual cues to a blind retina. Advanced Materials, 26(11), 1751-1756. *
https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.20130436

Gautam, V., Naureen, S., Shahid, N., Gao, Q., Wang, Y., Nisbet, D., … & Daria, V. R. (2017). Engineering highly interconnected neuronal networks on nanowire scaffolds. Nano letters, 17(6), 3369-3375. *
https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b05288

Tran, H. N., & Gautam, V. (2022). Micro/nano devices for integration with human brain organoids. Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 218, 114750.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bios.2022.114750