Mohit Verma

Assistant Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering

Dr. Verma earned his bachelor’s degree (2012) in applied science in nanotechnology engineering and his Ph.D. (2015) as a Vanier Canada Graduate Scholar in chemical engineering from the University of Waterloo, Canada.

Prior to coming to Purdue, he completed a Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship at Harvard University from 2015-2017.

His research focuses on microbiomes, complex communities of microorganims (i.e. microbiome)—bacteria, viruses, fungi, protozoa. His lab is engineering these microbiomes to improve health and prevent diseases such as obesity, diabetes, cancer, and inflammatory bowel diseases. Another area of interest lies in nanotechnology. The use of nanotechnology facilitates the manipulation of biological matter (bacteria, viruses, fungi, mammalian cells) in novel ways. At the nanoscale, matter can have unique properties such as a change in color depending on its size or superparamagnetism. These properties are harvested to study and engineer microbiomes.