Saraswat Bhattacharyya

Biography

Saraswat is a postdoctoral researcher in biophysics, currently (as of April 2026) at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems in Dresden, Germany. He studies the collective behaviour of cells and bacteria using theoretical modelling, numerical techniques and non-equilibrium statistical mechanics. Saraswat will move to Barcelona on an EMBO fellowship in October 2026 for two years, to study the energetic costs of tissue migration. In other activities, he trained in Indian Classical Instrumental Music on the Sarod under the tutelage of late Pt. Buddhadev Dasgupta, and later Ustad Abir Hussain. During his time in Oxford, he was part of the Oxford University gliding club!