About

Ankit grew up in Kolkata (City of Joy) in West Bengal, India. He graduated from the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata with a dual B.S. -M.S. degree in Chemistry in 2021. During his education, he worked with Prof. Lucio Frydman at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel for a couple of years on computational methods in NMR and MRI method development. Fascinated by the intricacies of nanotechnology, he worked on single-molecule spectroscopy of perovskite nanowires for his masters' dissertation.

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With a drive to apply chemical methods to understand biological systems, Ankit decided to move to the (significantly) colder climate of Boston to pursue a PhD in Chemistry at MIT. Interested in single-cell genomics and molecular biology, Ankit joined the Shalek and Kiessling labs to investigate the role of mechanical and chemical stimuli on human pluripotent stem cell differentiation and cancer plasticity.

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Outside research, Ankit is deeply interested in art forms that involve storytelling. Currently, he is trying his hand in photography and occasional story writing.