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Shraddha Avasthy

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Materials Science and Engineering
Northwestern University
Room: B560, Silverman Hall
Chemistry of Life Processes Institute,
2170 Campus Drive
Evanston IL, 60208-3113
Phone: (847) 491-5809
Fax: (847) 491-7280
Email: shraddhaavasthy2013@u.northwestern.edu 

Education

Northwestern University, Evanston, IL                                                                                                         December 2013

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL                                                                                                      August 2006 

Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India                                                                                                        May 2002

Research Experience

Northwestern University, Evanston, IL                                                                                                     Sept 2008-present

Graduate research assistant, Advisor:  Prof. Vinayak P. Dravid

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL                                                                                     January 2004-June 2006

Graduate research assistant, Advisor:  Prof. John A. Rogers

Hindalco, Aditya Birla Company, India                                                                                                  May 2001-July 2001

Summer Research Internship, Advisor: Arindam Sarkar

Current Research Work

Study of mechanical properties of biological systems and soft materials with Scanning Probe Microscopy:

Publications

Analysis of the role of cortactin in actin cytoskeleton rearrangement of live human pulmonary artery endothelial cells through atomic force spectroscopy. S. Avasthy (in preparation)

Surface mapping of sub-surface defect in Si(100) at sample longitudinal thickness mode resonance.  S. Avasthy (in preparation)

Improving accuracy of nanoscale mechanical measurements with AFM-based Contact Resonance Force Microscopy using Silicon as model material. S. Avasthy, J.H. Kim, G.S. Shekhawat, S.P. Shah and V.P. Dravid (to be submitted)

Sub-cellular Dynamic Mechanical Response Measurements of Live Human Pulmonary Artery Endothelial Cells with Atomic Force Microscopy. S. Avasthy, Y. Ishikawaa, G.S. Shekhawat, V.P. Dravid, G. Mustata, M.E. Brown, J.G. Garcia and S. Dudek.. Microscopy and Microanalysis , 18(S2), July 2012 , pp 1622-1623.

Gajendra Shekhawat, Shraddha Avasthy, Arvind Srivastava, , and Vinayak P. Dravid, “Probing Buried Defects in Extreme Ultraviolet Multilayer Blanks Using Ultrasound Holography”, G.S. Shekhawat, S. Avasthy, A. Srivastava, S. Tark and V.P. Dravid. IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology, 9(6), Nov. 2010.

Ultrasound Holography for Non-Invasive Probing of Buried Defects and Interfaces for Advanced Interconnect Architectures. G.S. Shekhawat, A. Srivastava, S. Avasthy and V.P. Dravid, Applied Physics Letters, 95(26), 263101, Dec 2009.

Soft Lithography for Microfluidic Microelectromechanical Systems and Optical Devices. S.M. Mitrowski, S. Avasthy, E.M. Erickson, M.E. Stewart, J.A. Rogers and R.G. Nuzzo, Unconventional Nanopatterning Techniques and Applications (ISBN: 978-0-470-09957-5; Chapter 12), Wiley Publications, 2008. (Book Chapter)

Scanning Near Field Ultrasound Holograhy. S. Avasthy, G.S. Shekhawat and V.P. Dravid. Acoustic Scanning Probe Microscopy, Series Title 3705, (ISBN: 9783642274947, Chapter 10), Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2012. (Book Chapter)

Scanning Near Field Ultrasound Holograhy. S. Avasthy, G. S. Shekhawat and V. P. Dravid. Encyclopedia of Analytical Chemistry, (ISBN: 9780470027318, Surfaces) Wiley Publications, 2010. (Book Chapter)

Seeing the Invisible: Noninvasive Subsurface Nanoscale Imaging with Scanning Near-Field Ultrasound Holography. S. Avasthy, A. Srivastava, G. S. Shekhawat and V. P. Dravid. FutureFab Intl., Issue 30, July 2009. (Article)

Selected Presentations

Microscopy & Microanalysis Conference: Physical Science Symposium                                                 Phoenix, AZ, July 2012

Award talk:  “Sub-cellular Dynamic Mechanical Response Measurements of Live Human Pulmonary Artery Endothelial Cells with Atomic Force Microscopy.”  S. Avasthy, Y. Ishikawa, G. Shekhawat, V.P. Dravid, G. Mustata, M.E. Brown, J.G. Garcia and S. Dudek.

14th International Scanning Probe Microscopy Conference                                                              Toronto, Canada, June 2012

Oral presentation: “Dynamic AFM mechanical property measurements of live single cells under changing physiological conditions.” S. Avasthy, M.E. Brown, Y. Ishikawa, G.S. Shekhawat, J.G. Garcia, S.M. Dudek, and V. P. Dravid

NSF CMMI Grantee Conference: Biomechanics and Mechanobiology                                                      Boston, MA, July 2012

Poster presentation: “Implementation of Fluidic-Scanning Near Field Ultrasound Holography with Integrated Electronic Detection for Nano-Bio-Mechanics.”  S. Avasthy, Y. Ishikawa, G.S. Shekhawat, and V.P. Dravid.

Catalyzing Collaboration Conference with Focus on Tumor Immunology: Emerging

Discovery, Translational & Diagnostics Approaches                                                                         Abbott Park, IL, Dec. 2011

Poster presentation:  “Seeing and Sensing the Invisible: Emerging Nanostructures and Devices for Biodevices.” S. Avasthy, M. De, G.S. Shekhawat, S.S. Chou, G.M. Mustata and V.P. Dravid.

CMOS Emerging Technologies Conference                                                                                  Whistler, Canada, May 2010

Oral presentation:  “Nanoscale Sub-surface Metrology using Ultrasound Holography for imaging buried defects in Advanced Interconnects and Semiconductor Devices.”  S. Avasthy, G.S. Shekhawat and V.P. Dravid.

Awards and Honors

Distinguished Scholar Award, Microanalysis Society of America                                                                             2012
The Northwestern Graduate School Terminal Year Fellowship                                                                                 2012
The Northwestern Graduate School Conference Travel Grant                                                                                   2012
Gold Medal for Materials and Metallurgical Engineering, IIT Kanpur                                                                           2002   
Certificate for Academic Excellence, IIT Kanpur                                                                                                       2001
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