I'm a theoretical and computational physicist finishing my PhD in Biophysics at the Biofisika Institute, working with Daniele De Martino. My research integrates single-cell experimental data with statistical-physics frameworks to understand how interacting cell populations coordinate their metabolism — currently centred on overflow metabolism as an emergent, collective phase transition rather than a single-cell trait.
Before this, I trained as a physicist (Integrated MSc at CEBS, University of Mumbai), and spent two years teaching quantum mechanics, computational physics, and electrodynamics as an Assistant Professor in Kerala. I'm comfortable in Python, Julia, Fortran, and C/C++, and I think a lot about constraint-based modelling, maximum-entropy inference, and Monte Carlo methods.
Outside research, I take photographs, read widely, and keep a small garden of curiosities — papers, talks, tools — on this site.
selected projects
2022 — present
Biofisika Institutua · Bilbao
Overflow metabolism: coordination & heterogeneity
PhD thesis · w/ Dr. Daniele De Martino
A statistical-physics framework for metabolic behaviour in spatially distributed, interacting multi-cellular systems.
- Built a constraint-based spatial model coupling intracellular flux balance to extracellular diffusion, integrated with mean-field theory and time-resolved single-cell data from tumour–stroma co-cultures.
- Showed that overflow metabolism is an emergent, collective phenomenon — a phase transition in the intercellular exchange network mediated by diffusion — rather than a single-cell trait.
- Co-developed a non-invasive, real-time flux-analysis method using inverse modelling that infers per-cell fluxes from spatially resolved pH-microenvironment readouts.
2015 — 2016
CEBS · Mumbai
Radiation Pressure Acceleration: transverse instability
Master's thesis · w/ Dr. Bhooshan Paradkar
Particle-in-cell simulations connecting transverse surface instability of a thin foil to periodic ion bunching under radiation pressure.
- Used the WARP particle-in-cell package to simulate RPA of a thin foil and demonstrated a correlation between transverse surface instability and periodic ion bunching.
Core-excited microsecond isomer in 207Pb
Master's project · w/ Dr. Sujit Tandel
Decay-scheme analysis from high-fold gamma-ray coincidence data on the Gammasphere array.
- Analysed gamma-ray coincidence data with the Radware package and established a decay scheme for high-spin states in 207Pb, identifying ~8 new energy levels.