Shekhar Lab at UC Berkeley
Karthik Shekhar is an Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley.
Education:
B. Tech, M. Tech in Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, 2008
Ph. D. in Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015 with Prof. Arup K. Chakraborty.
Postdoctoral Research:
Postdoctoral fellow with Prof. Aviv Regev, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.
National Institutes of Health K99/R00 Fellow
Recent Awards:
2023 McKnight Scholar in Neuroscience
2023 Donald E. Noyce Prize for Undergraduate Teaching
2023 Chemical Engineering Teaching Award
2022 Scialog Fellow
2022 Society of Hellman Fellow
Prof. Shekhar is a faculty scientist in the Biological Systems Division at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. He is affiliated with the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, Center for Computational Biology, Biophysics Graduate Group, Vision Sciences Graduate Group and QB3. For more information, check out my CV [Updated December 2023].
Contact Information:
Karthik Shekhar
Office: 101D Gilman Hall
Email: kshekhar [at] berkeley [dot] edu
Administrative Assistant: Jeff King
Office: 105-A Gilman Hall
Email: jeffpking [at] berkeley [dot] edu