Team

Ritu Raman, PhD is the Eugene Bell Career Development Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. Her lab is centered on 4D tissue engineering of biological actuators for applications in medicine and machines. Ritu’s research has received several recognitions including the PECASE, the NSF CAREER Award, the Army Research Office YIP Award, and the Office of Naval Research YIP Award, as well as Rising Star Junior Faculty Awards from the Biomedical Engineering Society and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. She is also the recipient of the Spira Award for Excellence in Teaching at MIT and the author of the MIT Press book Biofabrication.

Prof. Raman received her BS from Cornell University and her PhD as an NSF Fellow with Prof. Rashid Bashir at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She completed her postdoctoral training as a NASEM Ford Foundation Fellow and L’Oréal Fellow with Prof. Robert Langer at MIT.

The Raman Lab accepts graduate students from all relevant departments at MIT. Prof. Raman is affiliated with Robotics at MIT, the Program in Polymers and Soft Matter, the Center for Neurobiological Engineering, the Aging Brain Initiative at the Picower Institute, and the Center for Multi-Cellular Engineered Living Systems. Faculty Website