Partha Pratim Mondal, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Department of Instrumentation and Applied Physics at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, where he earned his Ph.D. in Physics in 2005. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, and as an ICTP TRIL fellow at University of Genova, Italy. Professor Mondal has been a visiting professor at University of Maine, Orono, USA, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA. He has over 65 journal publications and 25 contributions to conference proceedings to his credit and is co-author of the book Fundamentals of Fluorescence Microscopy (Springer). Professor Mondal's specialized areas of research include super-resolution microscopy, microfluidics, imaging cytometry, optical tweezers, light sheet technologies, fluorescence microscopy, and nanolithography. He has served as an editorial board member for several distinguished journals, including AIP Advances (AIP Publishing), Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing), Microscopy Research and Technique (Wiley), and Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences (Frontiers).
