Dr. Hritwick Banerjee, Ph.D.
Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems
Main Focus
My research lies at the crossroads of responsive soft materials, advanced manufacturing, and mechanics, with applications in medical engineering.
I am particularly interested in understanding and designing soft materials with unprecedented mechanical properties, such as extreme toughness and strength, ultra-sensitivity to stimuli, programmability, biocompatibility, and bioactivity, to effectively interface humans and machines and their intelligence.
Curriculum Vitae
I’m Hritwick Banerjee. I am currently working as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems (MPI-DCTS), Department of Materials Systems Engineering, Germany (2026–present).
I received my Ph.D. at the Institute of Materials, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland (2025). Before this, I was working as a Jr. Scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS), Germany (2019-20).
I was a Research Engineer at the Department of Biomedical Engineering, National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore (2015-19). Before this, I spent a brief stint as a Research Assistant at the Centre for Nano Science and Engineering (CeNSE) in the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India (2014-2015).
I graduated with a Master's Degree from the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IIT GN), and IIT Kharagpur with a dissertation titled “Frequency driven alteration in cellular morphology during ultrasound pulsing in a microfluidic confinement” (2014).
My career and personal goal is to impact human healthcare and create translational products while positively influencing students’ lives for as long as possible.