Harsh Jain

TIFR Postdoctoral Fellow
Simons Centre for the Study of Living Machines, NCBS–TIFR, Bengaluru

I am a soft-matter physicist at the Simons Centre for the Study of Living Machines, NCBS–TIFR, Bengaluru. I study how geometry and mechanics give soft materials their function: how thin sheets and rods buckle, how buckling can be used to make and store shapes, and how microscopic particles move along driven paths.

My work is mainly experimental. I build my own setups, including holographic optical tweezers and micropipette aspiration, and combine experiments with finite-element and numerical simulations. Before NCBS, I was a postdoctoral researcher at IISER Mohali. I did my PhD at TIFR Mumbai and a B.Tech in Engineering Physics at Delhi Technological University.

I am applying for faculty positions in 2026–27.

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