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DrSmitha Maretvadakethope

Research Associate in Theoretical Systems Biology

Department of Life Sciences - Faculty of Natural Sciences

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  • Research Associate in Theoretical Systems Biology
    Department of Life Sciences - Faculty of Natural Sciences
  • Sir Ernst Chain Building, South Kensington Campus, United Kingdom

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

  • AWARD
    Winner of the Postdoc and Fellows Reps Team Award 2025
    17 Sep 2025
    Imperial College Early Career Researcher Institute
  • AWARD
    Runner-up prize for best speaker
    30 Jun 2025
    “Bridging mechanics and genetics in early development” workshop
  • MEMBERSHIP OF A PROFESSIONAL BODY
    Member of Institute of Physics
    26 Mar 2025
  • AWARD
    Landahl Travel Award
    16 Apr 2024
    Society for Mathematical Biology
  • EDITORIAL BOARD
    Royal Society Philosophical Transactions A special issue "Biological fluid dynamics: emerging directions"
    12 Apr 2024 - 11 Sep 2025
    Guest Editor
  • MEMBERSHIP OF A PROFESSIONAL BODY
    Standard Member of the Society for Mathematical Biology
    19 Feb 2024
  • FELLOWSHIP
    David Crighton Fellowship
    5 Sep 2022 - 5 Dec 2022
    University of Cambridge
  • MEMBERSHIP OF A PROFESSIONAL BODY
    Member of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications
    2 Apr 2022
    2022-04-02 - Institute of mathematics and its applications
  • EXTERNAL COMMITTEE
    Bioactive Fluids Special Interest Group (opens in a new tab)⁠
    1 Jan 2021
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  • OUTREACH ACTIVITY
    Co-production and development of a Community Engaged Research Fund
    Imperial College
  • RESEARCH STUDENT SUPERVISION
    Deciphering the complex dynamics of the AC-DC Genetic Circuit: Multi-stability and oscillations in biological networks
  • RESEARCH STUDENT SUPERVISION
    Effects of near- wall velocity changes on microswimmer suspension dynamic
  • RESEARCH STUDENT SUPERVISION
    Establishing a single molecule imagine and mathematical modelling pipeline to study the role of SOX2-DNA binding dynamics in NMP cell fate specification
  • RESEARCH STUDENT SUPERVISION
    How do run-and-tumble dynamics affect the distribution of microswimmers in fluid flows
    Supervised and supported in the funding of a UROP summer student project
  • RESEARCH STUDENT SUPERVISION
    Near- Wall Manoeuvres: Simulating microswimmer dynamics in channels with spatially dependent swimming speeds