Sohan Kale

Sohan Kale is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Tech, leading the Mechanics of Living Materials Lab. His research focuses on mechanobiology, continuum thermomechanics, and multiscale modeling of biological systems. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2017) and has postdoctoral experience at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya in Barcelona. His work bridges mechanics and biology, particularly in understanding epithelial tissue behavior and developing predictive models for bioengineering applications.

Key research areas include active superelasticity in epithelial tissues, computational modeling of cellular behaviors, and materials science of nanocomposites. He has received awards such as the Stanley I. Weiss Dissertation Award (2017) and Mavis Future Faculty Fellowship (2015). His lab actively seeks students with backgrounds in continuum mechanics and computational methods.

Notable contributions include modeling epithelial tissue mechanics using vertex models and elucidating the role of cortical dilution in cellular stretching. His publications span journals like Nature, Physical Review Letters, and Journal of Applied Physics.