Chemical Engineering – Imperial College London
Krishnan has an undergraduate degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras and a PhD from Princeton University (in Chemical Engineering). He joined Imperial College following a postdoctoral stint in the Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Johns Hopkins University. His research interests focus on information processing biological and chemical systems. The elucidating and engineering of behaviour and information processing of cells and cell collectives are central themes in systems and synthetic biology and involves inputs from engineering, mathematics, biology, physics and chemistry. They present a number of new challenges for systems science, systems engineering and systems thinking generally. Krishnan works in this area combining (i) mathematical modelling, temporal, spatial and stochastic, at multiple levels (ii) foundational theoretical work (iii) systems approaches, methodologies and the development of systems frameworks (iv) collaboration with experimentalists in basic cell biology, systems and synthetic biology.
