Abhigna Bhatt

Abhigna Bhatt

she/her

ANRF National Postdoctoral Fellow at IISc Bengaluru, working on elastic waves, metamaterials and vibration isolation.

Curriculum Vitae

Appointments

  • ANRF National Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Aerospace Engineering, IISc Bengaluru, 2025–present
  • Research Associate, Department of Applied Mechanics, IIT Delhi, 2025
  • Research Associate, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Delhi (Naval Research Board, DRDO project), 2025
  • Assistant Professor (TEQIP-III), Jorhat Engineering College, Assam, 2018–2020
  • Assistant Professor (TEQIP-III), Institute of Technology Gopeshwar, Uttarakhand, 2018
  • Research Scholar / Research Fellow, IIT Gandhinagar, 2013–2017
  • Assistant Engineer, Surat Municipal Corporation, 2013

Education

  • Ph.D., Civil Engineering (Structural Engineering), IIT Delhi, 2025. Thesis: Wave Dispersion Characteristics in 1D Metamaterial Systems. Supervisor: Prof. Arnab Banerjee. Distinction in Doctoral Research.
  • M.Tech., Structural Engineering, SVNIT Surat, 2013. CGPA 8.50/10.
  • B.Tech., Civil Engineering, SVNIT Surat, 2011. CGPA 8.05/10.

Fellowships and awards

  • National Postdoctoral Fellowship (N-PDF), Anusandhan National Research Foundation, 2025
  • Distinction in Doctoral Research, IIT Delhi (top 10% of Ph.D. graduates), 2026
  • Early Doc Fellowship, IIT Delhi
  • Research Excellence Travel Award, IIT Delhi (META 2024)
  • International Travel Support, Department of Science and Technology, India (ECCOMAS 2024)
  • Research Student Travel Award, IIT Delhi (Phononics 2023)
  • Superior Research Paper Award, International Conference on Futuristic Technologies, 2021

Patent

  • Device for Absorbing Vibration, India, Application No. IN 202311027136. Filed April 2023, granted August 2026.

Publications

Five first-author journal articles. See the full list.

Talks

See all conference presentations.

Teaching

Taught undergraduate and postgraduate structural engineering courses and supervised undergraduate projects at Jorhat Engineering College and Institute of Technology Gopeshwar. Teaching languages: English and Hindi.

Skills

  • Analysis: dispersion and bandgap analysis, Bloch–Floquet analysis, multiple-scales perturbation, nonlinear dynamics, uncertainty quantification, optimisation, machine learning
  • Software: MATLAB, Python, COMSOL Multiphysics, Mathematica, Maple, LaTeX
  • Experiments: laser Doppler vibrometry, shaker testing, high-speed imaging, 3D printing, LabVIEW data acquisition