Aravind Jayasankar 

Education

2015 - 2019  Ph.D. Material Science

Technical University Berlin, Germany.

 

2014 - 2015 Master of Engineering Science

University of Auckland, New Zealand.

 

2005 - 2009 Bachelor of Electronics Engineering

Anna University, India.

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Experience

Research fellow                                               

Feb 2022 - Present

Plant Biomechanics Lab              

McGill University, Canada.

 

Research fellow                                               

Oct 2020 - Dec 2021

Fermart Lab              

Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore.

 

Research fellow                                               

Sept 2019 - Oct 2020

HP-NTU Digital Manufacturing Corporate Lab              

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

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Ph.D. Researcher                                     

Oct 2015 - Apr 2019

Max Planck Institute of Colloids & Interfaces (MPI) Germany.

 

Visiting researcher                                     

Jul 2015-Oct 2015

Harvard University, Boston, USA.         

           

Research assistant                                     

Jan 2014-Mar 2015

University of Auckland, New Zealand.

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Grants & Awards

 

2017 - Travel fellowship                                          

The Company of Biologists, United Kingdom.

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2014 - Department of Engineering Science scholarship

University of Auckland, New Zealand.

 

Technical and project skill sets

• Research and development 

• Product design and development

• Structural mechanics ABAQUS

• 3D Printing

• Parametric CAD modeling

• Python

• Biomechanics

• Technical publishing

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Publications

Jayasankar, A. K., Seidel, R., Hosny, A., Weaver, J. C., Fratzl, P., Chen, J., & Dean, M. N. (2020). Multi-scale modeling and mechanical performance characterization of stingray skeleton-inspired tessellations. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 138, 103906.

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Jayasankar, A. K., Seidel, R., Naumann, J., Guiducci, L., Hosny, A., Fratzl, P., J.C.Weaver & Dean, M. N. (2017).“Mechanical behavior of idealized, stingray-skeleton-inspired tiled composites as a function of geometry and material properties”. Journal of the mechanical behavior of biomedical materials, 73, 86-101.

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Jayasankar, A. K. (2019). "Structural modeling and computational mechanics of stingray inspired tesserae."

Technische Universität Berlin.

 

Seidel, R., Jayasankar, A. K., Shahar, R., & Dean, M. N. (2019). The Multiscale Architectures of Fish Bone and Tessellated Cartilage and Their Relation to Function. In Architectured Materials in Nature and Engineering (pp. 329-353). Springer, Cham.

 

Technical disclosure for medical device design for patent preparation : In progress

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