Gautam Menon is Dean (Research) and Professor of Physics and Biology at Ashoka University, Sonepat in India. His current research work, spread over approximately 100 papers, is in the two broad areas of biophysics and epidemiology. Currently, he works on a number of biophysical problems, including nuclear architecture, axonal transport, collective cell migration and cell adhesion, as well as on large-scale agent-based models of infectious disease. He has been awarded India’s two top mid-career fellowships, the Swarnajayanti Fellowship and the DAE-SRC Outstanding Research Fellowship, as well as being named an Outstanding Referee of the American Physical Society (2011). His named lectures include the Cockroft-Walton lecture, the G N Ramachandran Memorial Lecture and the K S Krishnan Endowment Lecture. He has been a speaker at, or organizer of, a number of bilateral initiatives, including the Indo-US Frontiers of Science, the Indo-US Frontiers of Engineering, the Indo-UK Frontiers of Science and the Indo-Israeli Workshops on Condensed Matter Physics. He was elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India, in 2019. He currently serves as a Commissioner on a Lancet Commission on Epidemiological Modeling and on a WHO Panel on Health, Climate and Ethics.
