Hi, I'm Ishant.

I am an Assistant Professor of Physics at the Colorado College.

My research sits at the interface of soft matter physics, organismal biophysics, and nonlinear dynamics. I study how complex, flexible, and often entangled systems (imagine synthetic filaments to living organisms) move, deform, organize, and respond to their environments.

Before joining Colorado College, I was a postdoctoral researcher in the Bhamla Lab at Georgia Institute of Technology, where I studied soft entangled systems, knots, tangles, and biological active matter. For my Ph.D. at IIT Bombay, I worked on ensemble dynamics in tabletop active matter systems, with broader experience in synchronization, oscillation quenching, stochastic resonance, and nonlinear experimental systems.