Shivani Mahajan

PhD Graduate Research Assistant, Agricultural & Biological Engineering, Purdue University, Biodynamic Imaging of Biological Tissue, Bacteria and Viruses
MS, Nuclear Engineering, Theoretical analysis of microwave breakdown for microscale gaps
BS, Physics with Biological emphasis, University of Minnesota – Twin Cities

Advisor: Professor, David Nolte and Professor, Michael Ladisch; Professor, Allen Garner

Research: I use biodynamic imaging (BD), a subset of optical coherence tomography, to analyze Doppler frequency shifts caused by light scattering from biological samples. We use BDI to decipher intracellular dynamics across a wide range of frequencies.