Team

Ritu Raman, PhD is the Eugene Bell Career Development Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. Her lab is centered on tissue engineering biological actuators for applications in regenerative medicine and biohybrid robotics. Ritu’s research has received several recognitions including the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, the Army Research Office Early Career Award (YIP), and the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award (YIP), as well as Rising Star Junior Faculty Awards from the Biomedical Engineering Society and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. She has been named a National Academy of Engineering (NAE) Grainger Frontiers of Engineering Fellow and National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Kavli Frontiers of Science Fellow, and included on both the Forbes 30 Under 30 and MIT Technology Review 35 Under 35 lists.

Ritu’s efforts to add hands-on experiences at the intersection of mechanical engineering and biology were recently recognized by an MIT Spira Award for Excellence in Teaching. Beyond the classroom, Ritu is passionate about broadening access to scientific literacy in tissue engineering, and is the author of the MIT Press book Biofabrication.

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