Prof Sandilya Garimella is a Visiting Associate Professor at Plaksha University and a Mechanical Engineer. Before joining Plaksha, he spent thirteen years as a Scientist and Principal Investigator at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. He holds a PhD and MSME from Purdue University and a BTech in Mechanical Engineering from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad. At Plaksha, he teaches Freshmore courses and contributes to the Innovation Lab and Grand Challenges program. He has also mentored researchers and students and volunteered as a K–12 mathematics educator.
Prof Garimella’s research develops chemical and bioanalytical platforms for ion mobility and mass spectrometry, drawing on computational physics and electrohydrodynamics. His work advances analytical instrumentation for characterizing novel materials and protein structures.
Areas of work:
- Computational physics and electrohydrodynamics
- Ion transport and ion mobility
- Chemical and bioanalytical sensing
- Mass spectrometry
- Analytical instrumentation
- Stephen Katz Early Stage Investigator program: developing hybrid analytical instrumentation that couples mass spectrometry with advanced microscopy to characterize novel materials and protein structures.
Prof Garimella has authored more than 50 peer-reviewed publications. Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Z3b0hfYAAAAJ&hl=en
- R&D 100 Award, 2017, for SLIM technology
- Battelle Distinguished Inventor, 2024
- Stephen Katz Early Stage Investigator Award, US National Institutes of Health
- PNNL Mentor of the Year Award, 2019
Prof Garimella has 16 granted US patents and more than 40 international patents.