Research
Dr Rachana Acharya is a Marie Curie Research Fellow with the BioElectronic Systems Technology (BEST) Research Group.
Area of research include:
- In vitro organ models
- Organic bioelectronics
- Organic electrochemical transistors
- Conducting polymers
Biography
Dr. Rachana Acharya is a material scientist with expertise in organic electronic devices and is currently a Marie Curie Research Fellow at the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology.
Dr Acharya started her academic journey as a metallurgical and materials engineer at VNIT Nagpur in India and did her masters in materials science and engineering from UCLA, USA. Dr Acharya then moved to the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart, Germany where she conducted research with Dr Hagen Klauk on organic thin-film transistors.
She has a PhD in chemistry and material science from the University of Stuttgart and, since 2022, is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Cambridge. Dr. Acharya has multidisciplinary research interests in material science, electronic device physics and cell biology and is currently developing versatile bioelectronic devices for understanding cell behaviour and building in vitro organ models.
Teaching and Supervisions
IA Natural Science Tripos: Materials Science CET I Convergence material: Engineering
