Posted on 10/07/202410/07/2024 by ScienceFather Assist Prof Dr. Francesco Asnicar | Leadership in Education | Best Researcher Award Department CIBIO, University of Trento, Italy 🔗 Professional Profiles Google Scholar Summary: Aman Khurana is an Assistant Professor at IIT Indore, specializing in soft materials mechanics and dynamic behavior of electroactive polymers. He has been recognized with the DST Inspire Faculty Fellowship (2022) and the Ratan Prakash Memorial Gold Medal (2017) 🎓. 🎓Education: Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, Saarland University, Germany Postdoctoral Researcher at Intelligent Materials Systems Lab, Saarland University ⚙️Professional Experience: Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Indore Guest Editor, Special Issue: European Journal of Computational Mechanics (2023-present) 🌟Research Interests: Mechanics of Soft Active Materials ⚙️ Nonlinear Dynamics 📈 Stability Analysis and Control of Electrically Driven Mechanical Structures 🌟 Aman Khurana has led and contributed to various research projects funded by prestigious agencies and has a strong publication record with over 21 journal articles. Notable Publications Paper Tittle: Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2 Paper Tittle: Extensive unexplored human microbiome diversity revealed by over 150,000 genomes from metagenomes spanning age, geography, and lifestyle Paper Tittle: Integrating taxonomic, functional, and strain-level profiling of diverse microbial communities with bioBakery 3 Paper Tittle: Mother-to-infant microbial transmission from different body sites shapes the developing infant gut microbiome Paper Tittle: Compact graphical representation of phylogenetic data and metadata with GraPhlAn Assist Prof Dr. Francesco Asnicar | Leadership in Education | Best Researcher Award