Debanjan Mukherjee

Debanjan Mukherjee is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder, leading the FLOWLab research group. His work focuses on interdisciplinary flow physics, particularly in biomedical and cardiovascular systems, aiming to improve medical device design and treatment strategies for conditions like stroke and thrombosis. His research integrates computational fluid dynamics, quantitative image processing, and patient-specific modeling to address clinical challenges.

He holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, and a B.Tech. in Ocean Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras. His postdoctoral training at UC Berkeley was supported by the American Heart Association Fellowship. He has held a Visiting Assistant Professor position at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Key research areas include cardiovascular and cerebrovascular hemodynamics, embolic stroke mechanisms, thrombus biomechanics, and particle-laden flow dynamics. His group develops tools for disease biomechanics and drug delivery systems, with applications in advanced manufacturing and biomedical engineering. Quantifying hemodynamic forces and flow-mediated transport processes are central to his work.

Mukherjee has received several awards, including the NIH Trailblazer Award (2020) and the Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award (2020). His work bridges fundamental fluid mechanics with clinical translation, emphasizing patient-specific solutions to reduce mortality from cardiovascular diseases.

His teaching contributions include designing courses on computational fluid dynamics using open-source tools and active learning strategies for biofluids concepts. He also focuses on remote education innovation in biomechanics through initiatives like the BIORES-21 survey.