Dr Rachana Acharya is a Materials scientist and currently a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology at the University of Cambridge. She started her academic journey as a metallurgical and materials engineer at VNIT Nagpur in India and completed her Masters in Materials Science and Engineering from UCLA, USA. She then moved to the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart, Germany where conducted research with Dr. Hagen Klauk on organic thin-film transistors. She has a PhD in Chemistry and Materials Science from the University of Stuttgart.
Dr. Acharya has multidisciplinary research interests in materials science, electronic device physics and cell biology and is currently developing versatile bioelectronic devices for understanding cell behaviour and building in vitro organ models.
