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Yash Rana

Yash Rana

Masters Student

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    PhD Candidate at Harvard University

  • Education

    • S.B.O.A School and Junior College

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      High School Diploma PHYSICAL SCIENCES 10

      Activities and Societies: Debating Society,Dramatics Society

    • Indian Institute of Science Education & Research (IISER), Mohali

      2015 - 2020
      BS-MS Physics

  • Experience

    • INDIAN INSTITUE OF SCIENCE,EDUCATION AND RESEARCH,MOHALI

      Aug 2015 - Sept 2020
      Masters Student

    • Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR)

      May 2017 - Jul 2017
      Scientific Researcher

      Worked under Prof. Rajesh Ganapathy on Template-Assisted Self Assembly for Colloidal Crystal formation.

    • Raman Research Institute

      Jul 2017 - Dec 2017
      Scientific Researcher

      Worked under Prof.Ranjini Bandopadhyay on dynamics of Chemically Active Janus particles and on dynamics of complex,thixotropic fluids.

    • IGEM Competition

      Jan 2018 - Oct 2018
      Technical Team Member

      Developed software "RATTEL" and hardware "TOMCAT" for safe and strategic deployment of our genetically modified organism as part of our project "FEAROMONE: A cat pheromone-based rat deterrent to prevent post-harvest losses caused by rat manifestation".

    • Weizman Institute of Science

      Jun 2018 - Aug 2018
      Scientific Researcher

      Worked under Prof.Ofer Feinerman on Cooperative behaviour in the ant species Paratrechina Longicornis.

    • MPI-CBG - Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics

      May 2019 - Aug 2019
      Researcher

      Worked with Dr Christoph Weber on Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation to see Darwinian Selection between polymers in solution.

    • National Centre for Biological Sciences

      Aug 2019 - Jan 2020
      Researcher

      Worked with Dr Shashi Thutupalli, to study metabolic scaling with organism mass using the Snowflake Yeast as a model organism.

    • Harvard University

      Sept 2021 - now

      Worked as teaching fellow for AP50: Physics as a Foundation for Science and Engineering, Part 1, a calculus-based introduction to physics focusing on the application of physics to real-world problems to teach scientific reasoning and problem-solving skills with an emphasis on laboratory projects such as designing and constructing Rube Goldberg machines and musical instruments.

      • Graduate Student

        Sept 2020 - now

      • Teaching Fellow

        Sept 2021 - Dec 2021

  • Licenses & Certifications