About the
Principal Investigator

Indrajit Srivastava is a tenure-track assistant professor at Texas Tech University in Mechanical Engineering department at Edward E. Whitacre Jr. College of Engineering. Professor Srivastava’s research focuses on leveraging the unique biomimetic characteristics of natural materials and nanoengineering design principles to make nanoparticles for early detection, diagnosis/prognosis, and image-guided therapeutic interventions of diseases like cancer, cardiovascular diseases, kidney diseases, and bacterial and viral pathogenesis. His research works have been published in high-impact scientific journals (ACS Nano, Advanced Functional Materials, Nature Communication, PNAS, etc.) and have been recognized with several academic awards and honors (multiple Baxter Young Investigator Awards, American Chemical Society’s PMSE Future Faculty Scholar, Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship, and BMES Career Development Award). Professor Srivastava is passionate about mentoring, and have shown his strong commitment in enhancing diversity, equity, and inclusion in STEM education through his outreach activities. Prior to joining Texas Tech, Professor Srivastava was postdoctoral researcher in the labs of Prof. Shuming Nie and Prof. Viktor Gruev (2020-2023) at Cancer Center of Illinois, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). He received his M.S. (2017) and Ph.D. (2020) degrees from UIUC under the advisement of under the mentorship of Prof. Dipanjan Pan, and was awarded the Bioengineering Teaching Excellence Award, WYSE Outstanding Mentorship Award, and Carbon Journal Dissertation Prize. He received his B.S. degree in Metallurgical Engineering & Materials Science (2015) from India at the Indian Institute of Engineering Science & Technology (IIEST), Shibpur. In his spare time, he likes watching wide array of television series ranging from sci-fi (Dark, Stranger Things) to historical romance fictions (Bridgerton). Indrajit loves playing and watching soccer and is a big fan of Arsenal Football club.

Curriculum Vitae, NIH Biosketch

SELECTED HONORS AND AWARDS.
2023 - ACS Leadership in Mentoring Award
2023 - CAS Future Leaders Top 100 Program
2021, 2022 - Baxter Young Investigator Award
2022 - ACS Postdoc to Faculty Scholar
2022 - Younger Chemists Committee Leadership Development Award
2021 - BMES UNITE Future Faculty Scholar
2021 - Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship (Declined)
2021 - Extended Editorial Advisory Board, Carbon Journal - Elsevier
2021 - Outstanding Thesis in Carbon Science & Technology, Carbon Journal - Elsevier
2021 - ACS PMSE Future Faculty Scholar
2020 - BMES Career Development Award
2019 - Bioengineering Teaching Excellence Award
2013 - Prof. A.K.Seal Undergraduate Fellowship