Murali Ghatkesar
Assistant professor
Department of Precision and Microsystems Engineering
Delft University of Technology
Netherlands
Biography
"Murali Ghatkesar is Assistant Professor in Micro and Nano Engineering. He obtained his first Master degree from University of Hyderabad and second Master degree from Indian Institute of Science in India. After a brief stint at industry, he got his PhD from University of Basel, Switzerland with ""summa cum laude"". Subsequently, on Swiss national science foundation prospective researcher fellowship and Novartis foundation fellowship he worked at Caltech, USA as postdoc. He also worked as research associate at University of Virginia, USA. His research activities are focused at the nexus of physics and biology covering fundamental problems to applications using micro/nano scale devices. His goal is to invent micro/nano tools engaged with fluidics to help solve intriguing problems in biology and unravel some of the mysteries of nature. "
Research Interest
Micro/Nanomechanical device fabrication
Publications
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Feasibility study of a polymer piezoelectric actuated microfluidic pump
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Non-contact filtering of latex beads in a microfluidic channel using acoustic trapping
