About
My name is Prajwal Padmanabha. I am from India. I'm currently a postdoctoral researcher working at the Department of Fundamental Microbiology, University of Lausanne, Switzerland. I work in the group of Dr. Sara Mitri on community dynamics and coexistence of microbes in different environments, using both theoretical and experimental approaches. Previously, I did my PhD in Physics at the University of Padua, Italy, working with Dr. Amos Maritan and Dr. Sandro Azaele at the Laboratory of Interdisciplinary Physics, working on non-equilibrium statistical mechanics across scales and subsequent biological applications. I graduated with a Masters in Physics from IISER Kolkata in 2020 with a thesis on collective behaviour models. I'm also broadly interested in various types of complex systems and their applications. Outside of this, I love reading and playing board games. I also try to learn at least one new thing outside academics always (which was conveniently Italian so far, but I need to find something else now).
You can find a list of my ongoing and past projects at the Projects page (I confess to having been lazy and hence needs an overhaul). Click here to see my CV (last updated - July 2024).