Ranjith Padinhateeri

He is known for his biological studies using statistical mechanics, polymer physics, and soft matter theory.

Ranjith Padinhateeri, born in Malappuram district of the south Indian state of Kerala, did his early schooling at AUP School Marakkara, V. V. M. Higher Secondary School and MSM HSS Kallingalparamba before joining Zamorin’s Guruvayurappan College to obtain a BSc in physics from the University of Calicut in 1997.

[1] Moving to Chennai, he earned his MSc from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras in 2000 and continued there for his doctoral studies under the guidance of P. B. Sunil Kumar which earned him a PhD in 2005 for his thesis, Statistical mechanics of semiflexible polymers : A study of single filaments.

His post doctoral training, initially, were under John F. Marko at two US universities, University of Illinois at Chicago and Northwestern University from 2005 to 2007 when he moved to France to continue his training at the laboratories of Jean-Francois Joanny and David Lacoste of Institut Curie during 2007–09.

[2] Padinhateeri is known to be involved in studies in the field of biological physics, focusing on cellular processes applying nonequilibrium approaches.